Zhuyang Liu is a Beijing-born, London-based guzheng musician, sound and multimedia artist. Described as a “new generation guzheng virtuoso” by the Beijing Daily Music Weekly, her practice bridges traditional Chinese instruments and contemporary experimental sound.

Working primarily with the guzheng, alongside Chinese minority instruments such as the sanxian and duxianqin, as well as Asian string instruments including the koto and gayageum, Zhuyang combines improvisation, electronics, noise, and expanded instrumental techniques to challenge traditional boundaries and rearticulate Eastern sonic languages within a contemporary context.

Her work spans sound, performance, writing, and technological art, constructing immersive sonic environments that move between tradition and futurity. Drawing from Chinese opera, folk traditions, field recordings, poetry, and vernacular storytelling, she creates evolving compositions where acoustic and electronic elements intertwine.

Alongside performance, Liu develops original instruments, wearable sound systems, and hybrid acoustic-electronic structures that reshape listening, language, and physical space, extending musical practice into installation and embodied environments.

She has performed at venues including the V&A, British Museum, Hundred Years Gallery, and IKLECTIK, JZ club Hangzhou etc. and has collaborated and shared the stage with artists including Tim Hodgkinson, Maggie Nicols, Atsuko Kamura, Paul Cheneour, Shabaka Hutchings, Dudu Kouaté,Moor Mother, and Jacob Collier.

As a researcher, Liu focuses on sound politics, instrumentality, and sonic ecology. Her writing includes The Sonic Arsenal of Alternative Instruments: An “Unconventional Warfare” in Sound, Noise, and Conflict.

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