Ni Zheng

Ni Zheng (b. 1997, CN) is a composer of electroacoustic music whose work explores the poetics and grotesque of the body. Through sonic rituals, she channels raw impulses, eroticism, and rage as acts of resistance against domestication. Her visceral vocal performances, field recordings from desolate sites, and blend of electronic and acoustic instruments seek ecstatic communication with both human and non-human realms. Her debut album Body of Immanence (Syrphe, 2023) was praised by La Revue des Ressources as “a form of Artaudian theatre of cruelty.” Her second album, fetid things (Don’t Look Back Records), was released in 2024. A recipient of the Talea Ensemble’s 2024/25 Early Career Commission, her works have been featured at impuls (AT), MA/IN (IT), Mixtur (ES), ICMC (CL), NYCEMF (USA), and more. Ni holds a BA from New England Conservatory and is currently a PhD candidate at UC San Diego.

Cet automne

Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris

octoberoct 24

Luciano Berio, Zara Ali, Sara Glojnarić, Eva Reiter, Ni Zheng

Music

Four female composers, take up, sixty years later, the utopic quest for continuity between the so-called popular arts and the so-called learned arts, as expressed in Luciano Berio's Folk Songs. In order to do so, they turn their attentions to sound of an impure nature, raw impulses and the sensations brought on by a tremor.