Praised by The Wire for music of “iridescent delicacy” that “dissolving in a vat of acid,” Dr. Anqi Liu is a composer, interdisciplinary multimedia artist, photographer, and filmmaker. Her solo album of improvisatory synthesizer performance was described by Boomkat as “detailed, narrative-driven sound that traipses across the physical and historical world to make connections we might not initially perceive.” The San Diego Union-Tribune praised her orchestral work How Light Arrives... for its distinctive musical color and compositional introspection. Her portrait album Veiled Erosion (KAIROS) has been widely acclaimed, including a review in de Volkskrant calling the music “abstract soundscapes, at times frightening, at times heartbreakingly beautiful,” and features in Sonograma Magazine and Reportersonline highlighting her fragile, intimate sonic universe and its expansive cultural reach.

Her practice unfolds within what she calls the Ecology of Fraysonics, a framework that treats fieldwork, composition, and technology as forms of threshold dwelling, approaching traditions as evolving lifeworlds shaped by land, language, migration, memory, and the quiet endurance of everyday routines, where knowledge is encountered rather than extracted and sound is continually tested at the limits of what can be heard, written, and shared. Working across acoustic composition, free improvisation, electronics, modular synthesizer, traditional Mongolian choor khuur, multimedia, interactive system design, and audiovisual ecologies, she pursues an ethics of attunement that dwells with fragility, silence, and the limits of documentation, so relation, memory, and endurance remain audible without being reduced into extractable form.

Anqi is half of the Motl/Liu Duo (free improv), the Liu/Bourdeau Duo (audio-visual ecology), and the cross-disciplinary āññā Duo (with Han Zhang). Anqi has taught and designed courses in music theory, composition, multimedia and sound studies at UC San Diego, and currently serves as a subject matter expert at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD). She holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from UC San Diego, an M.A. from Rutgers University, and dual degrees in Music Performance and Law from Xiamen University.