Chunyang Yao is a composer and electronic musician from Lijiang, China. She studied composing & composition theory at Music Conservatory of Shanghai. Her music is based on contemporary composition techniques and electronic noise aesthetics. In 2014, she launched her solo electronic music and voice performance project. One of Chunyang’s primary music field is the traditional music of the Nakhi, an ethnic group from Yunnan. As a Nakhi herself, she concentrates on exploring the possibilities of Nakhi traditional music and the phonetics of the Nakhi language. Nakhi music elements are extensively implemented in her music. Shining Cracks is an album inspired by a quote from Emil Cioran: “The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety.” this album is a journey for seizing the “death-principle”, by “carving” the timbre, organization and texture of the sound.