Xinjian Huang

Hi, nice to meet you!

Thank you for being here! I am Jane(Xinjian) Huang, an audio engineer, music producer, audio visual artist and creative technologist. I make music, audiovisual live performance, 2D/3D motion graphics, VR/AR, interactive installation, and more! I am always interested in digital arts and emerging technologies. I have participated in many events in the following places as a live audio engineer/coordinator/performer:

Spangenberg Theatre, 2024

Tateuchi Hall, Community School of Music and Arts, 2023

Campbell United Methodist Church, 2023

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 2022

First Congregation Church of Palo Alto, 2022

ACYPA’s Open Ceremony, 2021

Signal Flow Festival 2020, Oakland, CA

Globle Game Jam 2020, SF Noisebridge, CA

NSEME 2020, UIUC, IL

MAGWest 2019, San Jose, CA

Show all things show! NYU ITP camp 2019, NY

CNMAT odot Workshop, UCB, CA

E-Music Festival, Beijing, China

DA+ Space, Shanghai, China

Oregon University, OR

Please listen to my music and scroll down for more videos about my creative works.

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Here are some video clips of the performance organized by my current company. I made the video archive, including audio mixing and video editing.

TAT is a creative dance performance featuring green screening, made in collaboration with locking dancer Yunxiao Zhao and motion graphic artist Lisen Ye(Lynn). With the dancer secretly appearing on/off the stage and the background video trying to fake the dancer, the piece aims to trick the audiences by the visual illusion that both the real dancer and the “fake dancer” create together.

As the project lead, I made the music and the storyboard for the work. I also participated in part of the choreography. Click here to get more details about the performance.

Popping on Marshmallow is a sound installation that allows the audience to interact with the responding graphics created in Processing IDE. Each of the balls has its unique moving speed and a sound list, consisting of sound clips in the same timbre but different pitch. The sound is triggered randomly by the contact of the audience's hands of his/her body gesture through Kinect. The big blue ball has a slow mellow pad sound, the yellow one has a fruity sound at the middle speed, and the pink ball has the quickest and sharpest sound. The smallest blue ball which always moves horizontally, serves as a bonus to be more challenging to touch.

I made this work because of my enthusiasm for music education for children and music lovers. I always think that music is for everyone, not just professional performers or composers. This project's gamification performance design enables people to perform music with body movements easily, which also helps children improve hand-eye coordination and the sense of music.

Yu is a dance-music interactive performance in collaboration with a Chinese dancer Rui Yao, who is specialized in water sleeves. The data stream of the dancer's movement, analyzed by the wearable sensor attached to her clothes, is sent to the composer's Max/MSP patch wirelessly and generates all the music in real-time.

In Chinese opera, water sleeves refer to white silk extensions to the cuff of garment sleeves. They are so named because performers can use them to produce movements like the ripples of water. The piece was made to explore more possibilities of the modern expression in traditional Chinese art.

Whale Simulator is a VR project created in Unity3d with Wwise and Max/MSP.

The project features a special sound interaction by allowing the player to move where he/she gazes when giving voice. The project has been selected to exhibit in MAGWest 2019. Click here for more information.

Ci is an audio-visual interactive performance. Parameters of audio such as volume, frequency, are transferred and scaled to control the visuals, making the deformation of the 3d vase. The performance is created in Ableton and Max/MSP/Jitter.

The piece was selected and performed at NSEME 2020.

A crackle synth I made with chip NTE909D and circuits in a floss box. The switch controls on and off and the potentiometer controlls volume.

I plan to add more features in the future, such as freq & ring modulation, and a quater inch port so that I can send the signal to my computer or Eurorack.