CHENG I-lly
Music Composition,Creative Concept & Director
2021-2022 NTT Artists in Residence CHENG received her M.M. in Composition at National Taiwan Normal University and Master in Live Electronics at Conservatorium van Amsterdam. She is an Adjunct Lecturer in Taipei National University of the Arts and Fu Jen Catholic University. Her works mainly involves the interdisciplinary composition of physical movement, electroacoustic music, soundscape, video, and installations. She has been experimenting with the sound quality of various tangible materials and navigating the possibilities of performers' individuality in recent years. CHENG won first prize at the fine arts creation award held by the Taiwan Ministry of Education in 2010, was shortlisted for the Digital Art Awards Taipei and was the resident composer at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2014. In 2019, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts recommended her to the training program of Peter EÖTVÖS Contemporary Music Foundation where she published her work.