press kit

press kit

press kit

ziqing gong

ziqing gong

ziqing gong

composer working across contemporary composition and computer music

composer working across contemporary composition and computer music

composer working across contemporary composition and computer music

Ziqing Gong is an award-recognized composer based in New York whose work grows out of contemporary composition and computer music. His practice brings together musical craft, algorithmic approaches, and interactive sound systems to create immersive listening experiences.

Ziqing Gong is an award-recognized composer based in New York whose work grows out of contemporary composition and computer music. His practice brings together musical craft, algorithmic approaches, and interactive sound systems to create immersive listening experiences.

Ziqing Gong is an award-recognized composer based in New York whose work grows out of contemporary composition and computer music. His practice brings together musical craft, algorithmic approaches, and interactive sound systems to create immersive listening experiences.

Alongside his compositional work, he is involved in music-technology and sound-creation contexts, working within a startup environment that brings together audio tools, sound design, and musical content.

Alongside his compositional work, he is involved in music-technology and sound-creation contexts, working within a startup environment that brings together audio tools, sound design, and musical content.

Alongside his compositional work, he is involved in music-technology and sound-creation contexts, working within a startup environment that brings together audio tools, sound design, and musical content.

His background spans academic computer-music contexts, experimental composition, and professional work within large-scale interactive audio environments, including his time working in game-audio teams at Epic Games/Harmonix.

His background spans academic computer-music contexts, experimental composition, and professional work within large-scale interactive audio environments, including his time working in game-audio teams at Epic Games/Harmonix.

His background spans academic computer-music contexts, experimental composition, and professional work within large-scale interactive audio environments, including his time working in game-audio teams at Epic Games/Harmonix.

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A thoughtful young person with dark hair gazes to the side, captured in soft black and white lighting.
A thoughtful young person with dark hair gazes to the side, captured in soft black and white lighting.

awards

Selected international awards across contemporary and classical music competitions.

Selected international awards across contemporary and classical music competitions.

Selected international awards across contemporary and classical music competitions.

ABSOLUTE FIRST PRIZE

Concours International de Musique Jean-Philippe Rameau

Bach International Music Competition UK

PLATINUM PRIZE

Carl Reinecke International Music Competition

Erik Satie International Music Competition

Max Bruch International Music Competition

GOLD PRIZE

World Classical Music Awards

World Artistry Music Award

Debussy International Music Competition

Georges Bizet International Music Competition

Global Genius Music Competition

ABSOLUTE FIRST PRIZE

Concours International de Musique Jean-Philippe Rameau

Bach International Music Competition UK

PLATINUM PRIZE

Carl Reinecke International Music Competition

Erik Satie International Music Competition

Max Bruch International Music Competition

GOLD PRIZE

World Classical Music Awards

World Artistry Music Award

Debussy International Music Competition

Georges Bizet International Music Competition

Global Genius Music Competition

ABSOLUTE FIRST PRIZE

Concours International de Musique Jean-Philippe Rameau

Bach International Music Competition UK

PLATINUM PRIZE

Carl Reinecke International Music Competition

Erik Satie International Music Competition

Max Bruch International Music Competition

GOLD PRIZE

World Classical Music Awards

World Artistry Music Award

Debussy International Music Competition

Georges Bizet International Music Competition

Global Genius Music Competition

awards

awards

practice & artistic focus

practice & artistic focus

practice & artistic focus

Using musical craft and digital technology to create immersive, meaningful listening experiences.

Using musical craft and digital technology to create immersive, meaningful listening experiences.

Using musical craft and digital technology to create immersive, meaningful listening experiences.

APPROACH

APPROACH

APPROACH

Ziqing Gong’s work is driven by a consistent focus: using musical craft and digital technology to create immersive, meaningful listening experiences. Rooted in contemporary composition and computer music, his practice brings together formal thinking, counterpoint, and melodic construction with algorithmic processes, interactive sound structures, and software-based systems. Technology is not treated as an external layer, but as compositional material that shapes how musical form unfolds over time and how listeners enter and engage with sound. The result is music that invites attention as an experience, evolving in time, shaped by process, and designed for engaged listening.

Ziqing Gong’s work is driven by a consistent focus: using musical craft and digital technology to create immersive, meaningful listening experiences. Rooted in contemporary composition and computer music, his practice brings together formal thinking, counterpoint, and melodic construction with algorithmic processes, interactive sound structures, and software-based systems. Technology is not treated as an external layer, but as compositional material that shapes how musical form unfolds over time and how listeners enter and engage with sound. The result is music that invites attention as an experience, evolving in time, shaped by process, and designed for engaged listening.

Ziqing Gong’s work is driven by a consistent focus: using musical craft and digital technology to create immersive, meaningful listening experiences. Rooted in contemporary composition and computer music, his practice brings together formal thinking, counterpoint, and melodic construction with algorithmic processes, interactive sound structures, and software-based systems. Technology is not treated as an external layer, but as compositional material that shapes how musical form unfolds over time and how listeners enter and engage with sound. The result is music that invites attention as an experience, evolving in time, shaped by process, and designed for engaged listening.

SYSTEMS & MATERIALS

SYSTEMS & MATERIALS

SYSTEMS & MATERIALS

Gong moves fluidly between academic computer-music contexts, experimental composition, interactive sound systems, and music-technology environments, treating each as a continuous extension of compositional practice. Within these settings, he often composes by designing systems that define relationships and behaviors rather than relying on fixed scores alone. He has used environments such as SuperCollider to rearticulate classical techniques like fugue through algorithmic form, and to translate culturally specific musical materials, including elements drawn from Northern Chinese folk and narrative traditions, into electronic and system-based works. Across these projects, diverse musical languages are approached not as stylistic identity, but as compositional material shaped through structure, process, and transformation.

Gong moves fluidly between academic computer-music contexts, experimental composition, interactive sound systems, and music-technology environments, treating each as a continuous extension of compositional practice. Within these settings, he often composes by designing systems that define relationships and behaviors rather than relying on fixed scores alone. He has used environments such as SuperCollider to rearticulate classical techniques like fugue through algorithmic form, and to translate culturally specific musical materials, including elements drawn from Northern Chinese folk and narrative traditions, into electronic and system-based works. Across these projects, diverse musical languages are approached not as stylistic identity, but as compositional material shaped through structure, process, and transformation.

lISTENING/EXPERIENCE

lISTENING/EXPERIENCE

lISTENING/EXPERIENCE

Experience gained from designing interactive music environments and digital instruments, from collaborative game-audio systems to music-software contexts, directly feeds back into Gong’s compositional thinking. Central to his work is an interest in dynamic relationships, in how one musical or sonic parameter can modulate another, and how evolving networks of control shape perception, timing, and musical behavior. Whether working with generative algorithms, interactive structures, or studio-based composition, his practice asks how contemporary composition can expand what it means to “write music” in computational and immersive environments, and how these systems can create listening experiences that are not only heard, but entered.

Experience gained from designing interactive music environments and digital instruments, from collaborative game-audio systems to music-software contexts, directly feeds back into Gong’s compositional thinking. Central to his work is an interest in dynamic relationships, in how one musical or sonic parameter can modulate another, and how evolving networks of control shape perception, timing, and musical behavior. Whether working with generative algorithms, interactive structures, or studio-based composition, his practice asks how contemporary composition can expand what it means to “write music” in computational and immersive environments, and how these systems can create listening experiences that are not only heard, but entered.

selected backgrounds

selected backgrounds

selected backgrounds

philip kraus designs

audio programmer/ music produer

Develops audio plugins and software instruments, working across DSP, interface design, and sound creation for music-technology tools

2024 - now

philip kraus designs

audio programmer/ music produer

2024 - now

epic games (fortnite)

audio programming

Developed interactive audio and music systems for Fortnite Creative and Fortnite Festival, contributing to real-time audio and MIDI tools in Unreal Engine

2023

epic games (fortnite)

audio programming

2023

milestones documentary

film scoring

Composed and produced the original score for a feature-length documentary, creating over fifteen pieces of music across diverse musical languages

2020

milestones documentary

film scoring

Composed and produced the original score for a feature-length documentary, creating over fifteen pieces of music across diverse musical languages

2020

milestones documentary

film scoring

2020

portrait

performance/instrument

performance

performance

process

process

process

studio work

studio work

studio work

compositional environments

compositional environments

compositional environments

analog

analog

analog

sketches

sketches

sketches