Born in Beijing, is a computer music composer, researcher and improviser currently living and working in Cologne since September 2020. She has been studying Epistemic Media at the Institute for Music and Media Düsseldorf with Prof. Julian Rohrhuber and composer Marcus Schmickler. Her research currently focuses on Lacanian topology, algorithmic acoustics, and mathematical formalisation.
How to apply „purloined“ theoretical knowledge into artistic practice is her curiosity. She approaches and works between composition and improvisation, which often happens in specific space, intertwined with the exploration of physical movement and auditory perception.
Influenced by Lacanian topology, namely the Borromean rings, she co-founded the network-music ensemble and research group [ _ _ _ ] with Jia Liu in Karlsruhe and Song Li in London. Initiated during the Covid lockdown in November 2020, the ensemble developed a collaborative, algorithmic network-music performance system from scratch using the SuperCollider programming language. Their research and practice embody the new form of computer music performance with theoretical thinking.
Her work has been released on labels such as SUPERPANG (IT), Infant Tree (UK) and Zoomin’ Night (CN), as well as in compilations by Sub Rosa (BE) and reiheM (DE). She has performed at events and venues including the Ambient Festival Cologne, ICLC Utrecht, Himera Festival Turku, and numerous independent experimental series in Europe and China.
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2026
Performance
Jun 2026
Proginė Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
Solo
28 Jan 2026, Salon des Amateurs, Düsseldorf
Point, Surface and Twist
Installation performance w/ Joseph Baader
17-19 Jan 2026
Speculative Sound Synthesis | Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria
Solo | lecture performance
09 Jan 2026, Deutscher Komponist:innenverband, Hamburg
2025
Duo | talk + performance w/ Jun-Y Ciao
11 Dec 2025, Pianissimo, Kölner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik e.V. Köln
Quartet, w/ Teresa Coll, Jun-Y Ciao, Matthias Kaiser
07 Dec 2025, Änderungsschreiberei, Köln
Computermusic Solo
04 Dec 2025, Klang und Raum, 674 FM, Köln
Duo, w/ Hanna Schoerken
08 Nov 2025, Voicescape, Neue Musik Zentrale, Essen
Duo, w/ Jun-Y Ciao
05 Nov 2025, Bruitkasten, Köln
Quartet, w/ Teresa Coll, Jun-Y Ciao, Matthias Kaiser
19 Oct 2025, Hausboot, Bonn
Septet, w/ Fabian Neubauer, Bastian Buddenbrock, Sun Yizhou, Teresa Coll, Jun-Y Ciao, Matthias Kaiser
12 Oct 2025, Solips, Wuppertal
Berlin, Oct.
23 Oct 2025, Solo, Algomystica, Panke
09 Oct 2025, Duo w/ Jun-Y Ciao, Richten25
04 Oct 2025, Duo w/ Liz Allbee, encounters x uchu
01 Oct 2025, Solo, KM28
Septet, Random Expectation
w/ Matthias Kaiser, Simon Rummel, Li-Chin Li, Jun-Y Ciao, Fabian Neubauer, Ketonge
26 Aug 2025, Tersteegenkirche Köln-Dünnwald
Duo, w/ Spiral
28 Jun 2025, Living room, London
Duo, w/ Li Song .
27 Jun 2025, Hundred Years Gallery, London
Trio, w/ Naoki Nomoto, Li Song
26 Jun 2025, Walthamstow marshes, London
Duo, w/ Tom Soloveitzik
Trio, w/ Georg Wissel, Dušica Cajlan
10 Jun 2025, Studio Orbitale, Cologne
54. moers festival 2025
06 Jun
Duo, w/ Jun-Y Ciao
07 Jun
Solo
Trio, w/ Simon Rummel, Ketonge
08 Jun
Septet, Random Expectation
w/ Matthias Kaiser, Simon Rummel, Thilo Schölpen, Yizhou Sun, Cong Zhao, Wenbo Zhu
09 Jun
Quartet
w/ Meinrad Kneer, Tomo Ando, Matthias Kaiser
Duo w/ Jun-Y Ciao .
21 May 2025, Soft Rotation, 674 FM, Ubierring Köln
Duo w/ Sebastian von der Heide
10 May 2025, Maikäfer Musik, Evelyns Garden, Bilderstöckchen Köln
Solo
12 Apr 2025, ART ARTIST, Hansaalle 190 Düsseldorf .
Point, Surface, Twist | Residency as guest artists w/ Joseph Baader
Speculative Sound Synthesis | Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics Graz .
April - May 2025, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria
UK mini tour
01 Apr 2025, < / float >, Huddersfield .
30 Mar 2025, FREE MUSIC LESSONS, Wharf Chambers, Leeds .
29 Mar 2025, Festival Maybe, Hundred Years Gallery, London .
Quintet Random Expectation
w/ Mattias Kaiser, Simon Rummel, Li-Chin Li, Jun-Y Ciao
17 Mar 2025, Tersteegenkirche Köln-Dünnwald
Quadrophonic computer music performance
09 Feb 2025, Klang und Realität #3, FFT Düsseldorf .
07 Feb 2025, Reihe Square, Vogteistraße 18A Köln .
HOW MUCH WATTAGE IS ONE HANDBREATH OF WATER? | Jingru Cyan Cheng and Chen Zhan
Commissioned work for feedback sound installation, music composition for 3-channel video
23. Jan. - 19. Apr. 2025, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York .
Septet RANDOM EXPECTATION
Matthias Kaiser, Simon Rummel, Thilo Schölpen, Yizhou Sun, Shuoxin Tan, Cong Zhao, Wenbo Zhu
30 Jan 2025, Tersteegenkirche Köln-Dünnwald
2024
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ] | remote concert
01 Dec 2024, xiaozu Beijing, China
Numbers and Events | quadrophonic computer music performance
Himera Festival .
02 Nov 2024, Sibelius Museum Turku, Finland .
from two roots | quadrophonic fixed-media installation
SOIRÉE SONIQUE #88 | LTK4·Klangbasierte Künste Köln .
30 Oct-02 Nov 2024, Lutherkirche, Köln
Numbers and Events | computer music performance
Deterministic Jitter | NOW! Festival
26 Oct 2024, Neue Musik Zentrale, Essen
Nothing Important | solo performance w/ em microphone, portable recorder, electronics, motor, smartphone flashlight, korg monotron, bluethooth speakers
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ] | algorithmic network computer music performance
Self-sufficient music #3, NUB Project Space .
12 Oct 2024, Palazzo Fabroni Pistoia, Italy
(De)composition of Inside- and Outsideness: Sound Synthesis as Point, Surface and Twist | lecture-performance w/ Joseph Baader
Speculative Sound Synthesis Symposium 2024
26 Sep 2024, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria
Numbers and Events | quadrophonic computer music performance
Bruitkasten Sommerfestival
28 Aug 2024, Gemeinde, Köln
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
CENTRE COURT FESTIVAL 2024 | LTK4·Klangbasierte Künste Köln .
03 Aug 2024, Lutherkirche, Köln
Nothing Important | improvised music with electromagnetic microphones
Sommerfest Klang und Realität 2024
13 Jul 2024, ES365, Düsseldorf
Numbers and Events | quadrophonic computer music performance
Musikinformatik Konzert
28 Jun 2024, ES365, Düsseldorf
Numbers and Events | Computer music solo performance
blurred edges Festival für aktuelle Musik Hamburg .
14 Jun 2024, Honigfabrik, Hamburg
Voice$ and Piano | 4 miniature compositions for player piano .
Player Piano Event
25 Apr 2024, Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
TOPLAP20 | livecode stream
23 Feb 2024, Karlsruhe .
2022/23
Computer music performance
26 Nov 2023, Exyno_Radio, 674 FM, Köln .
2 Oct 2023, default#9 x 3345 the hague, Centrale Bibliotheek, The Hague .
30 Jul 2023, STROMSPIESSER XII Konzertreihe für Live-Elektronische Musik, Tresor.West, Dortmund .
1 Mar 2023, Hunderd Years Gallery, London .
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
4 Oct 2023, Gemeinde, Cologne .
2 Oct 2023, Centrale Bibliotheek, The Hague .
1 Oct 2023, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague .
30 Sep 2023, iv project space, Brussels .
30 Sep 2023, Kiosk Radio, Brussels
21 Apr 2023, ICLC-International Conference on Live Coding, Utrecht .
26 Feb 2023, Spanners, London
25 Feb 2023, Waverly Bar, Edinburgh
24 Feb 2023, La Chunky, Glasgow
Duo ((oppai))
Dinner for One | performance with kinetic sound objects
27 Jul 2023, Sommerfest Klang und Realität, Düsseldorf .
Durch den Vorhang gehen | Album release concert
9 Nov 2022, ON Cologne, Köln .
Durch den Vorhang gehen | electroacoustic music performance
20 May 2022, Lichtbogen - Neue Musik - Klang Raum Resonanz, Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf .
Fremdes Wasser | research project of composition and improvisation with objects
#3, solo performance of shortwave receiver, acoustic instruments and sound objects
4 Feb 2023, Akustische Kunst, Former ZF Freidrichshafen AG industrial factory, Düsseldorf
#2, miniature composition for shortwave receiver and underwater recording
3 Dec 2022, NOIES Kurze Tage Kalender .
commissioned by NOIES Musikszene NRW / Institut für Musik und Medien Düsseldorf / Umland Records
#1, shortwave receiver and organ
14 May 2022, Akustische Kunst, church Neu St. Alban, Köln
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
Compassion Through Algorithms, Algorave Tokyo
27 Dec 2022
forestlimit, Tokyo .
from two roots | Algorithmic computer music composition
#3, 8 channel version, 16min
25 Okt 2022, Iannis Xenakis Workgroup Concert, Institut für Musik und Medien Düsseldorf .
#2, quadrophonic version, 20min
20 Okt 2022, Sparda’s Palastrauschen, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf .
#1, quadrophonic version, 20min
25 Jun 2022, Galerie Richas Digest, Köln .
As soft as possible... | quadrophonic computer music composition
18 Mar 2022, Lange nacht der Kirchen, church St. Aposteln, Köln .
2021
Flechten | computer music composition
8 Dec 2021, Partikasaal, Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf .
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
14 Dec 2021, Cafe OTO, London .
Route | Collaborative Algorithmic Network-music Performance
30 Nov 2021, Premiere at HKCR Hong Kong Community Radio
supported by Musikfonds / Neustart Kultur .
Subaru the Car | A composition tribute to Robert Ashley
real-time programmed player piano, piano player and 4 voices
25 Nov 2021, Tonstudio, Hochschule Düsseldorf
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
9 Sep 2021, Crypt, St. Michael, Köln
commissioned by Ambientfestival .
Der dritte Körper | Research project Collaborative Algorithmic Network-music Performance
31 Aug 2021, Tower room, St. Michael, Köln
supported by Initiative Freie Musik e.V. / Kulturamt der Stadt Köln .
Algopolis | Live Code City 2021
14 May 2021, Ljubljana .
协作算法音乐表演 | Collaborative Algorithmic Music Performance
14 Mar 2021, HKBU AVA Kai Tak Campus, Hong Kong .
TOPLAP | Transnodal 2021
19 Feb 2021 .
Noise of Cologne 3
2024, reiheM, Germany .
叙事喷泉 Narrative Fountain
Shuoxin Tan
2 Jun 2023, 50933, Germany .
from two roots
Shuoxin Tan
1 Mar 2023, Infant Tree, London .
Durch den Vorhang gehen 穿过屏风
Shuoxin Tan / Natalia Molina
30 Aug 2022, Zoomin' Night, China .
[ _ _ _ ]
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ] |Song Li(London), Jia Liu(Karlsruhe), Shuoxin Tan(Köln)|
3 Jun 2022, SUPERPANG, Italy .
Simultanhalle, April 30, 2021
Shuoxin Tan
1 May 2021, 50933, Germany .
Pillow
Shuoxin Tan
2015, D Force Records, China
Various – An Anthology Of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008
2009, Sub Rosa, Belgium .
HOW MUCH WATTAGE IS ONE HANDBREATH OF WATER? | Jingru Cyan Cheng and Chen Zhan
Commissioned work for sound composition, sound installation
23. Jan. - 19. Apr. 2025, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York .
Minority Algorithm | A bit, A prompt, aaajiao
commissioned music composition for multimedia installation
26 Apr-25 May 2024, SETAREH, Berlin .
Der dritte Körper | Media art exhibition
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
22 Feb-01 Jun 2025, 震荡不消磁 | Sounding Sound Practice in Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong Since the 1990s
Inside-Out Art Museum Beijing, China .
20-23 April 2023, ICLC, Utrecht .
May 2022, DIVFUSE media art gallery, London .
25-27 Feb 2022, DIVFUSE media art gallery, London .
Zweistimmiger Vogel | site-specific algorithmic sound installation
26 Jun 2021, Simultanhalle, Köln .
Deep Simulator | DEEP SIMULATOR, aaajiao
commissioned composition for multimedia installation
5 Nov 2020-30 Mar 2021, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Italy .
叙事喷泉 Narrative Fountain | Dance Theater
Choreography / Text / Voice: Mengfan Wang
Dance: Min Qian
Composition / Installation: Shuoxin Tan
14/16 April 2023, West Bund Museum, Shanghai
commissioned by Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project
with the support of Kering | Women In Motion
镜像记录 Protokoll des Spiegels | live-streaming essay-performance
Shuoxin Tan (Cologne) / Mengfan Wang (Beijing)
5/6 Nov 2020, commissioned by Beijing Fringe Festival .
Conversations: Ripples, Traces, Drifts: Jingru (Cyan) Cheng and Chen Zhan on process-oriented practice
by Shumi Bose x KoozArch .
SHUOXIN TAN - Der vierte Ring, oder: connected through the www
by Friedemann Dupelius
NOIES MUSIK SZENE NRW 01/2025 .
EM GUIDE 04/2025 .
Collaboration and Communication through Network Music (with Ensemble [ _ _ _ ])
by Cis De Gendt
2 Oct 2023
default#9 x 3345, Centrale Bibliotheek Den Haag .
Articulated Network (with Ensemble [ _ _ _ ])
by Shuoxin Tan
Jun 2022
ON Podcast, Köln .
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
by Livia B Garcia
26 Feb 2022
DIVFUSE media art gallery, London .
supported by Musikfonds / Neustart Kultur
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
by Edward Sanderson .
14 Mar 2021
»Problemstellung (etwa konkreter)« Lecture performance of Pierre Soury and his writing »Le nœud borroméen orienté«
Kolloquium, Prof. Julian Rohrhuber
Epistemische Medien, IMM, RSH
07 Jul 2025
»l'un-en-moins (one-less)« Lecture performance of Jacques Lacan and his writing »Rings of String« .
Kolloquium, Prof. Julian Rohrhuber
Epistemische Medien, IMM, RSH
12 Jun 2024
»Nicht-Zeigen und Strukturlosigkeit« über Ligeti und Mikropolyphonie
Mediale Zeitformen II, Marcus Schmickler
Epistemische Medien, IMM, RSH
16 Apr 2024
»Let it be ...« über James Tenney und seinen Essay »John Cage and the Theory of Harmony(1983)«
Mediale Zeitformen II, Marcus Schmickler
Epistemische Medien, IMM, RSH
25 May 2021
»Der nullte Körper«
Form und Formalismus "Entwendete Mathematik", Prof. Julian Rohrhuber / Dr. Tzuchien Tho
Epistemische Medien, IMM, RSH
13 Apr 2021
(De)composition of Inside- and Outsideness - Sound Synthesis as Point, Surface and Twist | Recherchestipendium Kunststiftung NRW, 2026
Speculative Sound Synthesis | Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics Graz, 2025 .
Speculative Sound Synthesis Symposium | Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics Graz, 2024 .
Sound Arguments | Orpheus Instituut Gent, 2024
Darmstädter Ferienkurse | Internationales Musikinstitut, 2023
ON - Neue Musik e.V. Köln, 2022
Stockhausen-Konzerte und -Kurse Kürten | Stockhausen-Stiftung für Musik, 2022
Stipendienprogramm des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2022
Musikfonds, 2021
Initiative Freie Musik e.V. Köln, 2021
DAAD, 2021
20 Jun 2021, St. Michael, Köln .
30 Apr 2021, Simultanhalle, Köln .
15 Jan 2021, Kath. Kirche Herz Jesu, Köln
26 Dec 2020, Schlossgarten, Karlsruhe .
12 Dec 2020, Japanischer Garten, Düsseldorf