Yellow Wasabi was born in 1999 in Canton, China. She has played the Chinese harp, the guzheng, since childhood, and holds a bachelor’s degree in ecology and a master’s degree in neuroscience from Université Paris-Saclay in France. Influenced by her father, a professor of physics, and her mother, a professor of fine arts, she believes that science and art are connected. She has chosen to use biology and new media for the artistic exploration of a dynamically changing world.
Yellow Wasabi has discovered experimental music, especially harsh noise. In her work she combines the guzheng with Max/MSP, renewing her performances with biometric modules, microscopes, motion sensors and interactive 3D projections generated by artificial intelligence. For her, unbearable noise is the sonification of the trivial things of life.
Yellow Wasabi wants to wake people up by pushing their physical limits and reconnecting their bodies with the environment. For her, art is a fossil of human perception. She wants to turn the struggle of life into a joyful vitality and to bring people happiness through science and the arts.
With the support of the Council of Europe, French national arts foundations and private foundations, Yellow Wasabi has performed in China, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Switzerland and Greece. She is active on the European and Asian experimental music scene, in contemporary art galleries and at scientific congresses. As a young scientist she has been artist in residence in a number of European and national projects.
In cooperation with
Estonian Arnold Schönberg Society
Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music (ECCM)
EELC St Elizabeth’s Congregation, Pärnu
EELC Tartu University and St John’s Congregation
Pärnu Opera
Autorfest
Supported by
City of Pärnu
City of Tartu
City of Tallinn
Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Ministry of Culture
Culture Moves Europe
www.yellowwasabi.net
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