Mingjun Yang is a sound artist whose practice explores the relationship between perception, sound, and the self. Her academic background in film sound design shaped her ability to construct sonic narratives through timbre, spatial movement, and temporal structure. As her practice developed, she began extending the narrative capacity of sound from external stories toward processes of perception, examining how sound can reveal changes taking place within an individual.
Working with spatial audio, interactive systems, and presence-based sensing, Yang explores how human presence, movement, stillness, and duration shape sonic environments. She maps observable bodily behavior onto changing sound states without assigning fixed emotional meanings to them. Through this process, sound creates a third-person perspective from which participants may notice aspects of their internal experience that would otherwise remain imperceptible.
Her practice is grounded in a philosophical framework of Being, Thought, and Becoming. Being refers to one’s existing internal state; Thought introduces movement, judgment, interpretation, and disturbance; Becoming emerges through their continuous interaction. This framework understands perception as an active force that continually shapes both lived reality and the individual’s understanding of the self.
Across her work, Yang considers the individual’s inner orientation a creative force within the structures that shape everyday life. Her current and future projects explore how perception interacts with personal experience, collective memory, history, and received systems of knowledge, as well as how traces left by participants may accumulate into evolving sonic and social structures. One question remains central to her practice: how can sound preserve a perspective for self-observation and open new possibilities for being?