I am a composer, electronic musician, and wanderer currently residing in New York. I do not talk in the third person. Through music, I try to use technology as an extension of myself, becoming a beat-making cyborg of sorts.

I received a formal education, studying Music Composition at University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music ('15), studying with Ted Hearne, Frank Ticheli, and Brian Shepard. Despite my more traditional musical adolescence, my artistic adulthood is more focused on the electronic creation and manipulation of sound, creating strange beats and floating melodies against walls of abstract, textural ambience.

One of my most rewarding artistic experiences during my short stay in Southern California originated in the brilliant brain of Yo-Yo Lin. She approached me with an idea for a five-screen, surround sound animation installation, which she named "Ricerca." Now, nearly a year after its premier, "Ricerca" is bringing us to SXSW to give a panel on Animated Storytelling in Physical Space and presenting the piece in Virtual Reality! Rad!

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Home grown in Los Angeles, California, Taiwanese-American artist Yo-Yo Lin creates audio-visual installation experiences and explores the possibilities of the animated medium. With an intensive background in fine arts and design, Yo-Yo continued her art studies as a Bachelor of Arts in Animation and Digital Arts at the University of Southern California ('15). She quickly fell in love with the art of bending time and space through creating moving pictures and technological projection work. She has since then shown animated installation works at art galleries, music festivals, and public art venues across the country. Conceptually, Yo-Yo often draws inspiration from childhood memories and borrows iconography from her Tao Buddhist religion. She often explores the shortcomings of human nature and confronts mortality, exploring nuances of life, death and everything else in-between.