Cheng Daoyuan is a Taipei-based interdisciplinary creator whose practice spans experimental sound, video, and installation, exploring ambiguous images of opposing forces in coexistence.
Through albums, compilations, and remixes, his works have appeared across various international labels and platforms. In recent years, Cheng has extended his sonic aesthetics into multichannel sound fields, mixed-media installation, and physical theatre. His works and performances have been presented at various art festivals and institutions in Taiwan and internationally.
Awards
2024- Finalist of the 22nd Taishin Arts Awards, 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
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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, TheCube Project Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2021
- Future Vision Lab 2021, C-LAB, Taipei, Taiwan
- /’fu:bar/ Expo 2021, Institut français de CroatieZagreb and URL exhibition
Selected Works
2026- ‘DOOMAIN: se(l)ves’
Phased research-creation project
- supported by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan
2023
- ‘Re-Fracture’
Cross-field 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 of the 22nd Taishin Arts Awards
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
- as the C-LAB Creators Sound-Off project
- ‘Where End Is Silent’
Site-specific mixed-media installation, 5.1-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’
Full-dome audio-visual work, co-created with Huang Wei
Future Vision Lab, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Feeding Frowns For Fronted Froth — EP (cassette/digital), SSSM (JP)
2025
- Kae Takahashi & Jaw Surgery, Paranoia Survive — remix contribution (cassette/digital), Cruel Nature Recordings (US)
- 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)
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旣 Apeiron: Expanded Edition — reissue album (double CD/digital), WV Sorcerer Productions (FR)
- Consumed Leadens — EP (cassette/digital), Absurd Trax & Mouhoi (HK)
2022
-
5qmt — compilation appearance (digital), Daddypower Records (HU)
- Panopticon — split (cassette/digital), Karma Detonation Tapes (TW)
- VALLEY001 — compilation appearance (digital), Valley (NL)
2020
- HUH, ID — remix contribution (digital), Ochiai Soup (JP)
- 旣 Apeiron — debut album (cassette/digital), Future Proof (TW)
2019
- Untranslatable Music — compilation appearance (digital), The Spiritual Triangles (PT)
2018
- Zhonghu — compilation appearance (digital), Future Proof (TW)
- Mental Maps — compilation appearance (cassette/digital), Chinabot (UK)
Selected Performances
2025- 11.22｜@tak: Live, Party, Dialogue, at Live House C (Taipei Music Center), Taipei, TW
- 09.28｜Interface 21, at Tomar Caffee, Taichung, 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, HORSE, Taipei, TW - 04.05｜A Bunch of Noise Festival, Bandai Namco, Shanghai, CN
2024
- 11.30｜’Arrow from Morrow (reprise)’ w/ Wu Wenyi & Chung Kaining at Sonic Shaman - The Cube Fourm Music Festival, JUT RS289, Taipei, TW
2023
- 09.21｜KarmacomaraK vol.III: Death to Hypocrities, Revolver, Taipei, TW
- 04.01｜Duvet: Ambient & Drone Festival, at LNY Dunnan, Taipei, TW
2022
- 12.10｜Sonic Shaman - The Cube Forum Music Festival (DJ Set), AUSPIC Paper, Taipei, TW
- 11.20｜Sound Has Either Grief Nor Joy - It’s Emotionless w/ Lee Chia-Ling, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, TW
- 10.15｜’POLYMORPHISM’ w/ Huang Chiyen, Wandering Festival- ArtSapce IV (C-LAB), Taipei, TW
- 05.14｜Deejay's Cut - Bur Buk Boon & Cheng Daoyuan (pre-rec), Aléatronome, Saint-Étienne, FR
- 05.14｜Objet Sonore Deformation Opening, The Cube Project Space, Taipei, TW
- 03.17｜Black Rain Bow 3 w/ Dutch E Germ, Tzu Ning, Huang Ching, FINAL, Taipei, TW
2021
- 03.19｜虛相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, FINAL, Taipei, TW
2020
- 10.18｜T-Town No Punk, Dazhi Bridge, Taipei TW
- 07.18｜Outer Pulsation #14 w/ Daniel Ditlevson, Zhonghua Overpass, Taipei, TW
- 05.24｜MUTEK x Currents.fm - Nexus Experience, Live-Stream
- 04.18｜SOTU Festival : CYBERSOTU2020, Live-Stream
- 02.29｜Cheng Daoyuan - “旣 Apeiron” Release Party, FatTone Studio, Taipei, TW
2019
- 12.14｜Contagious Orgasm Taiwan Tour, Little Play, Taichung, TW
- 10.27｜Ultra Transmission Vol. 2 w/ Bei San Q Nan, FatTone Studio, Taipei, TW
- 10.18｜Future Proof: 011668 & S280F w/ Cheng Daoyuan, Opal Beau (LIVE), FINAL, Taipei, TW
- 09.06｜Yao Chung Han Solo Exhibition《 I Feel the Space 》, B.B.Art, Tainan, TW
- 05.31｜FUSION RESEARCH, Odd Institute, Taipei, TW
- 01.29｜Make Some Noise, 立川 AA カンパニー, Tokyo, JP
- 01.26｜YXWS4 Opening, SUBstore Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
- 01.25｜YXWS4 Preview, Sound Studio DOM Koenji, Tokyo, JP
2018
- 11.16｜Taipei Biennale 2018: Mycelial Radio Activation - Opening night performance, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, TW
- 08.31｜Deep Listening #08 Clansie Daoyuancheng w/ Chia-Chun Xu, Little Play, Taichung, TW
- 05.26｜Future Proof X Customs present : Day Out, TigerMountain, Taipei, TW
- 03.31｜Lacking Sound Festival Listen #106, VENUE, Taipei, TW
2017
- 12.15｜Lafidki "Chinabot" tour-Taichung with The Pen Test and Clansie Cheng, Little Play, Taichung, TW
- 10.28｜ʍǝNʞɔɐqǝɯoƆ｜ComeBackNew, FatTone Studio, Taipei, TW
- 07.28｜Pisitakun [Black Country] Experimental Music Tour, TCRC, Tainan, TW
- 05.06｜Spectacular Atrophy w/ Wu Pinshen, Yeh Tinghao, RedRoom, Taipei, TW
2016
- 10.08｜Paradise Vol.1, PongDing, Taipei, TW
- 03.19｜Lacking Sound Festival Listen #101, Changee, Taipei, TW
2015
- 12.25｜WestEastMagazine THE DEBUTANTE GALA, CTBC Financial Park, Taipei, TW
- 06.11｜the DUST, Shih Chien University, Taipei, TW