Awards

2024

  • Finalist for the 22nd Taishin Arts Award, Taiwan

Residencies

2022

  • C-LAB Creators: Sound-Off Project, Taiwan Sound Lab / Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei, Taiwan

Selected Exhibitions

2024

  • Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne Planetarium, Melbourne, Australia
  • SAT Festival, Société des arts technologiques, Montréal, Canada

2022

  • Taiwan Art Biennial: Love and Death of Sentient Beings, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
  • Objet Sonore Deformation, The Cube Project Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2021

  • Future Vision Lab 2021, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei, Taiwan

Selected Works

2026

  • 'DOOMAIN: se(l)ves'
    Phased research-creation project
    - supported by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan

2023

  • 'Re-Fracture'
    interdisciplinary performance, co-created with Yeh Yuhsuan and Hsiao Yuli
    C-LAB Sound Festival, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab ArtSpace V, Taipei, Taiwan
    - supported by National Taichung Theater and Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab
    - finalist for the 22nd Taishin Arts Award

2022

  • 'DOOME: Null Gods'
    Site-specific mixed-media project, 49.4-channel audio, 3-channel video,
    Taiwan Sound Lab / Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
    - developed through the C-LAB CREATORS: Sound-Off residency program

  • 'Where End Is Silent'
    Site-specific mixed-media installation, 4.1-channel audio, single-channel video
    Taiwan Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
    - commissioned by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

2021

  • 'INNERSTAR 01: Reddening'
    Fulldome audiovisual work, co-created with Huang Wei
    Future Vision Lab, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
    - selected for the Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 and SAT Fest 2024

Selected Lectures and Workshops

2025

  • Camping Asia "U>N>I>T>E>D": Posthuman Body Politics: Body, Sound, and Installation Workshop, 11F Studio 4, Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2023

  • TPadd assoc. 2023 Conference Nº47: Mutual Friends, Hyper Reality Landscapes: Contemporary Media as Anchors, Session 1: "Collision: Digital Technology in the Contemporary," online panel

2022

  • Taiwan Art Biennial Artist Talk, Session 3: "Sound / Noise," Auditorium, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

Selected Discography

2026

  • "DOOMAIN: se(l)ves"
    - project soundwork (digital), self-released (TW)
  • "Feeding Frowns For Fronted Froth"
    - EP (cassette/digital), SSSM (JP)

2025

  • "Eternal – A Chinese Noise and Industrial Music Compilation"
    - compilation appearance (CD), L.White (DE)
  • "Arrow from Morrow(OST)"
    - OST album (CD/digital), WV Sorcerer Productions (FR)

2024

  • "旣 Apeiron: Expanded Edition"
    - reissue album (double CD/digital), WV Sorcerer Productions (FR)

2023

  • "Consumed Leadens"
    - EP (cassette/digital), Absurd Trax & Mouhoi (HK)
  • "DOOME: Null Gods"
    - project soundwork (digital), self-released (TW)

2022

  • "5qmt"
    - compilation appearance (digital), Daddypower Records (HU)

2021

  • "Panopticon"
    - split (cassette/digital), Karma Detonation Tapes (TW)
  • "VALLEY001"
    - compilation appearance (digital), Valley (NL)

2020

  • HUH-"ID"
    - remix contribution (digital), Ochiai Soup (JP)

2019

  • "旣 Apeiron"
    - debut album (cassette/digital), Future Proof (TW)
  • "Unit I • Untranslatable Music"
    - compilation appearance (cassette/digital), The Spiritual Triangles (PT)

2018

  • "Zhonghu"
    - compilation appearance (digital), Future Proof (TW)
  • "Mental Maps"
    - compilation appearance (cassette/digital), Chinabot (UK)

Selected Performances

2026

  • 06.12|MIRA 新伝統 Taiwan tour, at Siusiu Lab, Taipei, TW

2025

  • 11.22|@tak: Live, Party, Dialogue, at Live House C (Taipei Music Center), Taipei, TW
  • 08.22|WVTHERING: WV Sorcerer Productions in Taipei w/ Ling Tzuning, at Revolver, Taipei, TW
  • 06.11|CHENG DAOYUAN: A DECADE OF SELF-PERPLEXATION|TEN-YEAR ANNIVERSARY LIVESTREAM SESSION (Live-Stream)
  • 04.23|Primal CHAOS - Dance × Sounds improvisation Season 9 w/ Wu Wentsui, at HORSE, New Taipei City, TW
  • 04.05|A Bunch Of Noise festival, at Bandai Namco, Shanghai, CN

2024

  • 12.17|Pan - Volition, at Revolver, Taipei, TW
  • 11.30|'Arrow from Morrow (reprise)' w/ Wu Wenyi & Chung Kaining, at Sonic Shaman - The Cube Forum Music Festival, JUT RS289, Taipei, TW

2023

  • 09.21|KarmacomaraK vol.III: Death to Hypocrities, at Revolver, Taipei, TW
  • 04.01|Duvet: Ambient & Drone Festival, at LNY Dunnan, Taipei, TW

2022

  • 12.10|Sonic Shaman - The Cube Forum Music Festival, at AUSPIC Paper, Taipei, TW (DJ Set)
  • 11.20|Sound Has Either Grief Nor Joy - It's Emotionless w/ Lee Chia-Ling, at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, TW
  • 10.15|'Polymorphism' w/ Huang Chiyen, at Wandering Festival, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) ArtSpace IV, Taipei, TW
  • 05.14|Deejay's Cut - Bur Buk Boon & Cheng Daoyuan (pre-rec), at Aléatronome, Saint-Étienne, FR
  • 05.14|Objet Sonore Deformation Opening, at The Cube Project Space, Taipei, TW
  • 03.17|Black Rain Bow 3 w/ Dutch E Germ, Tzu Ning, Huang Ching, at FINAL, Taipei, TW

2021

  • 03.19|Nullphase | Common Multiverse Initiative 2021 w/ Mong Tong (Live-Stream)
  • 03.09|K/A/T/O MASSACRE × META Flexing w/ A.P.R.A. (Live-Stream)
  • 01.29|Meta Flexing vol.5: DeathDiscoFever, at FINAL, Taipei, TW

2020

  • 10.18|T-Town No Punk, at Dazhi Bridge, Taipei, TW
  • 07.18|Outer Pulsation #14 w/ Daniel Ditlevson, at Zhonghua Overpass, Taipei, TW
  • 05.24|MUTEK × Currents.fm - Nexus Experience (Live-Stream)
  • 04.18|SOTU Festival: CYBERSOTU2020 (Live-Stream)
  • 02.29|Cheng Daoyuan - '旣 Apeiron' Release Party, at FatTone Studio, Taipei, TW

2019

  • 12.14|Contagious Orgasm Taiwan Tour, at Little Play, Taichung, TW
  • 10.27|Ultra Transmission Vol. 2 w/ Bei San Q Nan, at FatTone Studio, Taipei, TW
  • 10.18|Future Proof: 011668 & S280F w/ Cheng Daoyuan, Opal Beau (LIVE), at FINAL, Taipei, TW
  • 08.03|Yao Chung Han Solo Exhibition《I Feel the Space》, at B.B.Art, Tainan, TW
  • 05.31|Fusion Research, at Odd Institute, Taipei, TW
  • 01.29|Make Some Noise, at 立川 AA カンパニー, Tokyo, JP
  • 01.26|YXWS4 Opening, at SUBstore Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
  • 01.25|YXWS4 Preview, at Sound Studio DOM Koenji, Tokyo, JP

2018

  • 11.16|Mycelium Network Society at Taipei Biennial 2018 Mycelial Radio Activation - Opening night performance, at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, TW
  • 08.31|Deep Listening #08 Clansie Daoyuancheng w/ Chia-Chun Xu, at Little Play, Taichung, TW
  • 05.26|Future Proof × Customs present: Day Out, at TigerMountain, Taipei, TW
  • 03.31|Lacking Sound Festival Listen #106, at VENUE, Taipei, TW

2017

  • 12.15|Lafidki 'Chinabot' tour, at Little Play, Taichung, TW
  • 07.28|Pisitakun [Black Country] Experimental Music Tour (Tainan), at TCRC, Tainan, TW
  • 05.06|Spectacular Atrophy 萎縮するイメーシ w/ Wu Pinsheng and Yeh Tinghao, at RedRoom, Taipei, TW

2016

  • 10.08|Paradise Vol.1 後花園, at PongDing, Taipei, TW
  • 03.19|Lacking Sound Festival Listen #101 w/ Ruru Kuo, at Changee, Taipei, TW

2015

  • 12.25|WestEastMagazine THE DEBUTANTE GALA, at CTBC Financial Park, Taipei, TW
  • 06.11|the DUST, at Shih Chien University, Taipei, TW
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