Jui-Ying Huang  
黃芮盈

Composer/ Performer

Military is not my topic—it is my structure, my grammar.
I don’t write about the army; I write through the lens it has given me. 

The human rhythmic discipline, the layered simplicity, and the ‘freedom’ marching within music…

The tension of the paradox of two: orders and spontaneity/ oppression and release —that’s how I compose.

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Jui-Ying Huang (also Ray Huang), comes from Taichung City, Taiwan. She is a composer, pianist, and artist influenced by military, Asian cultures and film music. Her work is described as: 'Sincerely moving, genuine and rich in musicality.‘

After graduating from National Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and National Defence University (Taipei, Taiwan), she is currently pursuing her music PhD at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (London, UK) and seeks to express her messages and lively rhythm soundscapes with different forms of musical physicality, tension, and momentum. She works with materials from military, social, and bodily rituals — not as themes, but as internalised grammars. Her music seeks to find a poetic logic within structures shaped by the tension of control and freedom.

Having spent years immersed in Paiwan culture—one of the Indigenous peoples of Taiwan—she also draws profound inspiration from traditional Taiwanese and related aboriginal music. In particular, she is captivated by the Lalingedan (double-pipe nose flute, which means 'breath of life’), a unique instrument invented by the Paiwan people.
Her strong motivation is to provide feedback to individuals and the world, those who are creating actual and priceless art.

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