Philip Liu is a sound artist, sonic topographer, simulation artist, posthumanist, and researcher exploring the intersections of spatial audio, digital aesthetics, and sonic philosophy.
His practice centers on sonic spatiality—the perception of space and spatial information through hearing. Liu investigates the logics, emotions, affects, and cultural layers that this spatiality imposes on the listener. To achieve this, he manipulates spatial attributes within his long-term project, Topological Sound Composition, amplifying, contracting, and distorting them through acoustic simulation, physical modeling synthesis, physically sounding objects, and sensors.
Through these explorations, he emphasizes the necessity of preparing for a new era of posthuman listening, where the fundamental nature of auditory experience is expected to change drastically. This concept was articulated in his project Digital Superposition, which explored the augmented senses of the posthuman by overlapping and coinciding multiple real-time ocean waves, winds, and thunders existing in disparate spaces.
His performances and installations have been presented internationally at prestigious institutions and festivals, including ZKM Karlsruhe, Hellerau Dresden, Akademie der Künste Berlin, UnfoldX Festival Seoul, Asia Culture Center Gwangju, EMS Stockholm, WeSA Seoul, Artience Daejeon, ArtScienza Rome, BEASTFEaST Birmingham, and ICMC/NYCEMF New York.
Sonic Materialization
Synthesizer Circuits
Light and Acoustic Waves
Spatial Audio
Sonic Proxemics
Archaeoacoustics
Decolonalization
Seamless Shape-Sound Relationship
Acoustic Simulation
/ Simulation Art
Sonification
Sonic Spatial Artificial Intelligence
Spatiality as Compositional Material
Sonic Spatiality
Sampling Spatiality
Algorithmic Composition
Hypernoesis: The Future of listening
Sonic Philosophy
Digital Aesthetics
Philip Liu is a sound artist, sonic topographer, simulation artist, posthumanist, and researcher exploring the intersections of spatial audio, digital aesthetics, and sonic philosophy.
His practice centers on sonic spatiality—the perception of space and spatial information through hearing. Liu investigates the logics, emotions, affects, and cultural layers that this spatiality imposes on the listener. To achieve this, he manipulates spatial attributes within his long-term project, Topological Sound Composition, amplifying, contracting, and distorting them through acoustic simulation, physical modeling synthesis, physically sounding objects, and sensors.
Through these explorations, he emphasizes the necessity of preparing for a new era of posthuman listening, where the fundamental nature of auditory experience is expected to change drastically. This concept was articulated in his project Digital Superposition, which explored the augmented senses of the posthuman by overlapping and coinciding multiple real-time ocean waves, winds, and thunders existing in disparate spaces.
His performances and installations have been presented internationally at prestigious institutions and festivals, including ZKM Karlsruhe, Hellerau Dresden, Akademie der Künste Berlin, UnfoldX Festival Seoul, Asia Culture Center Gwangju, EMS Stockholm, WeSA Seoul, Artience Daejeon, ArtScienza Rome, BEASTFEaST Birmingham, and ICMC/NYCEMF New York.
Philip Liu is a sound artist, sonic topographer, simulation artist, posthumanist, and researcher exploring the intersections of spatial audio, digital aesthetics, and sonic philosophy.
His practice centers on sonic spatiality—the perception of space and spatial information through hearing. Liu investigates the logics, emotions, affects, and cultural layers that this spatiality imposes on the listener. To achieve this, he manipulates spatial attributes within his long-term project, Topological Sound Composition, amplifying, contracting, and distorting them through acoustic simulation, physical modeling synthesis, physically sounding objects, and sensors.
Through these explorations, he emphasizes the necessity of preparing for a new era of posthuman listening, where the fundamental nature of auditory experience is expected to change drastically. This concept was articulated in his project Digital Superposition, which explored the augmented senses of the posthuman by overlapping and coinciding multiple real-time ocean waves, winds, and thunders existing in disparate spaces.
His performances and installations have been presented internationally at prestigious institutions and festivals, including ZKM Karlsruhe, Hellerau Dresden, Akademie der Künste Berlin, UnfoldX Festival Seoul, Asia Culture Center Gwangju, EMS Stockholm, WeSA Seoul, Artience Daejeon, ArtScienza Rome, BEASTFEaST Birmingham, and ICMC/NYCEMF New York.