Born in Beijing, now living and working as a freelance composer and sound artist in Cologne. Since April 2020 she studies Epistemic Media at Institute for Music and Media Düsseldorf with Prof. Julian Rohrhuber and composer Marcus Schmickler. Her research currently focuses on sound topology, algorithmic acoustics and mathematical formalization.
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 has founded the network-music ensemble and research group [ _ _ _ ] together with Jia Liu in Karlsruhe and Song Li in London. The ensemble started during the Covid lockdown in November 2020 and developed a collaborative algorithmic network-music performance system from scratch, adopting the programming language SuperCollider. 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, Infant Tree and Zoomin’ Night, compilations on labels Sub Rosa and reiheM.
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Computer music performance
14 Jun 2024, Honigfabrik, Hamburg
Voice$ and Piano | 4 miniature compositions for player piano
25 Apr 2024, Player Piano Event, Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
TOPLAP20 | livecode stream
23 Feb 2024, Karlsruhe .
Computer music performance
26 Nov 2023, Exyno_Radio, 674 FM, Cologne .
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, Cologne .
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, Cologne
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, Cologne .
As soft as possible... | quadrophonic computer music composition
18 Mar 2022, Lange nacht der Kirchen, church St. Aposteln, Cologne .
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, Cologne
commissioned by Ambientfestival .
Der dritte Körper | Research project Collaborative Algorithmic Network-music Performance
31 Aug 2021, Tower room, St. Michael, Cologne
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 .
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Ensemble [ _ _ _ ] |Song Li(London), Jia Liu(Karlsruhe), Shuoxin Tan(Cologne)|
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 .
Minority Algorithm | A bit, A prompt, aaajiao
commissioned composition for multimedia installation
26 Apr-25 May 2024, SETAREH, Berlin .
Der dritte Körper | Video exhibition
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
20-23 April 2023, ICLC, Utrecht .
Der dritte Körper | Sound & Visual Exhibition
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
May 2022, DIVFUSE media art gallery, London .
Von anderen Räumen | Sound Exhibition
Ensemble [ _ _ _ ]
25-27 Feb 2022, DIVFUSE media art gallery, London .
supported by Musikfonds / Neustart Kultur
Zweistimmiger Vogel | site-specific algorithmic sound installation
26 Jun 2021, Simultanhalle, Cologne .
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 .
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, Cologne .
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
»Nicht-Zeigen und Strukturlosigkeit « Ligeti und Mikropolyphonie
Mediale Zeitformen II, Marcus Schmickler
Epistemische Medien, IMM, RSH
16 Apr 2024
»Let it be ...« Ein Bericht 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
Speculative Sound Synthesis | Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics Graz, 2025
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, Cologne .
30 Apr 2021, Simultanhalle, Cologne .
15 Jan 2021, Kath. Kirche Herz Jesu, Cologne
26 Dec 2020, Schlossgarten, Karlsruhe .
12 Dec 2020, Japanischer Garten, Düsseldorf