Garling Wu

Garling Wu is an artist and composer whose practice is born from a love of music and technology.

In recent years, her curiosity has grown to encompass touch, gesture, light, scent and space within her work. Driven by a desire to fabricate spaces that evoke the rich inner imagination of her listeners, she plays with the human voice, field recordings, music, memory, and image schemas to imbue her art with meaning. Using technology, she folds together real and imagined sound worlds in the hope of creating an artistic experience that elicits a gestalt reaction, a kind of electroacoustic heterotopia that is more than the sum of its individual parts. Body tracking, electronics, spatial audio and live electronic performance are just a number of the tools she employs to this end.

Her work has been exhibited in Taiwan, and performed in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Germany and South Korea. She was born and raised in Aotearoa and graduated from the University of Auckland with a Masters in Music with First Class Honours.