Liao Yu-Hsuan

She is a sound artist and a second-year PhD student in ethnomusicology at Duke University.

As a researcher, her doctoral project focuses on Taiwanese mountain sound studies, exploring how the sonic ecology of mountains co-generates with hikers, Indigenous peoples, and multi-species encounters, raising questions of risk, (post)colonialism and the geopolitics of East Asia.

As a sound artist, she brings attention to the intersections of nature, history, and haunting—framed as a form of care. Her work investigates how modern sounds, echoed and reshaped through daily life, reverberating across species and social systems.

Some of her works have been presented at the SEM Sound Studies Section Sounding Board 2025, Taitung Sound Art Festival, Talking Drum Radio, the Southern Taiwan Science Park Museum of Archaeology, , Taitung Art Museum, and the Taiwan Women’s Festival.