Cece Zhang

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Improvisation: Piano Meditation, Op. 1, No. 1

officially two weeks from graduation and 11 weeks from leaving NY 😼 i kept telling people that I’m done and done with New York — it’s a bipolar city, I always need more space to breathe, and I’m growing too fast like I’m uprooting myself — but you know, its attraction is unparalleled in so many ways and it just keeps bringing people back ;| I know the first thing I’m definitely gonna miss is my mentors and friends here. i’ve navigated so many challenges in the past few years thanks to their guide and support…all those experiences were really special to me as a human being, an artist, and a woman. still have a lot more to say…but I’ll go to sleep for now. sleep is important:)

🪷Synthesizer and Singing Bowl | A Sound Healing Session In this event, two NYU students — certified sound healer Dhaykey Tsering @the.dhays , and electronic musician/therapeutic artist Cece Zhang @cecezzhang (club president of NYU Gender Equality in Music) — are coming together to bring a short drone bath session with singing bowls and synthesizer, for participants to tune in, find calm, and connect through deep listening. The event will have the participants sit or lie down in a comfortable position while have their eyes covered with blindfolds. After the bath session, the room is open for feedback, sharing, and discussions about gender equality in two kinds of spaces: the wellness field and the electronic music field, and the intersection of both. 🎶 Host: NYU Gender Equality in Music All University Club Date and Time: Sunday, April 12 2026 at 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EDT Location: 3rd floor, Room 388, NYU Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life; 238 Thompson St, New York, NY 10012, New York , New York ✨How to grab a spot? RSVP required through NYU engage - link in bio (poster made with Midjourney AI)

🌬️2 months ago, I had an idea: writing a long set shaped like a bamboo forest. The bamboo is one of the most common archetypes in traditional Chinese poetry and art, embodying the spirit of bending without breaking, moving but with stillness at the center. The image has been there with me as I grew up reading and learning about bamboos in Chinese literature, and I thought “why don’t we sonify it through electronic music?” After improvising something in the Ableton session view, I brought it to Alan. We surprised ourselves in our co-producing session: for the first time we let something clubby into our collaborative ambient series. With hypnotic dub techno, it turned out to be more than just music to listen through, but music to move through. A way to reset the nervous system with the whole body, not just the ears. We’re playing the same set again next Friday, in a botanic surround sound room that already knows the piece. Come bend with us, will you? 🌬️ Original composition by Cece Zhang & Alan Lecheng Chao, recording available on YouTube & SoundCloud. - - - - - - 🎟️link in bio, Early Birds ends by 12pm, March 30 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐀𝐩𝐫.𝟑 𝟖:𝟑𝟎 𝐏𝐌 – 𝟏𝟎:𝟎𝟎 𝐏𝐌 (Doors at 8:00 PM) 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐛 147 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249 video by @sawinnn_07

𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒑𝒕.2: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 虚实相生 An Immersive Music Bath / 2nd live set following our last RA-PICKED, SOLD-OUT event / at the heart of Williamsburg @reforesters.io We return to the sanctuary of sound next Friday!! 🎋Still drawing inspiration from the spirit of the bamboo forest, "to bend without breaking," we invite you on a two-part music journey of motion and stillness. The first 40 minutes ~ hypnotic melodic techno, blending ecstatic energy with traditional Chinese instrumentation, moving you into the flow; The last 40 minutes ~ transitioning into deep ambient/drone, inviting you to sit and lie back. --- Experience brought to you by --- Cece Zhang 张天晓, composer, producer, sound artist specializing in left-field electronics, dark ambient, music concrete, and psychologically engaged activism/dreamwork. Growing up playing classical piano while absorbing influences from Asian sacred music rituals, she’s a seasoned improviser on keys, synth, and voice, and prefers complex modalities with no clear tonal center, inspired by the ambiguity and myths of her dreamscapes since little. Alan Lecheng Chao 晁乐成 is a music producer, multi-instrumentalist and audio engineer specializing in spatial audio. Working under the title Sovietaxi, and also as a part of the duo 羽片 Slice Feathers, his speciality is working with singer-songwriters to express their emotions. His solo projects are more emphasized on electronic ambient music that reflects tranquility, emotional tensions in East Asian culture. --- Event Info --- 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐀𝐩𝐫.𝟑 𝟖:𝟑𝟎 𝐏𝐌 – 𝟏𝟎:𝟎𝟎 𝐏𝐌 (Doors at 8:00 PM) 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐛 147 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249 Original composition by Cece Zhang & Alan Lecheng Chao, recording available on YouTube & SoundCloud. [🎟️ 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐨] Poster by @haoquan_wang0808 Photo by @sawinnn_07

last show was a “trip” … so glad we received so much trust to transport our audience to multiple altered states on Feb 27〰️ 〰️some said they were going through their life, some said they didn’t expect to have a total nervous system reset, some simply wanted to dance more… aside from the show itself, just wanna say that music and imagination are the two best gifts of humans, aren’t they? *live recording <Green Resonance> now out on Youtube & SoundCloud, click link in bio for a listen / original music by Cece Zhang and Alan Lecheng Chao @alan_lecheng_chao . 📷: Sawin Chen @sawinnn_07

🖊️An important lesson I learned lately was that “I’m limited.” I can’t be anything I wanna be, because I’m a human being. I have my genetic conditioning and my past history that pre-determine me to show up in a particular way — while I can alter some of that with my free will and choice, there’s always a huge part of myself that just doesn’t respond to my mere will and effort. As much as I want to transform into something else, those things are unmovable. However, that doesn’t mean losing one’s strength or agency. Though I can’t change 100% of what I am or how the world is, I can change how I respond to it: do I check in with myself when I feel something? Can I give myself more compassion when I see my feelings? Do I allow myself to pause there and tune into my inner rhythm for a moment? Are there ways I can help myself feel better? I’ve heard those sentences from others before for a million times, but to embody them and finally assure them to myself is totally a new experience, and essentially the path to real freedom. This is not to deny that humans need external validation. To live in this world, we need each other, and we more or less must seek that external validation, but basing too much of one’s self-worth on that and not checking in with ourselves is leading to an inevitable burnout. And the counterintuitive thing is that taking breaks actually won’t stop us, but the burnout will. Now when I say “I’m limited,” I’m still feeling the frustrations, but also learning to find the stillness in the depth of my limitations. That makes me feel alive.

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Side effects of our music bath include: unexpected creativity, floating sensations, and vivid synesthesia🪸 After our Bright Ambient session last November, our audience reported seeing colors and sculpting visions in an altered-state ocean. We’re still riding that wave 🌊 Ready to explore the continuum of sound with us again? 🗓 Mark your calendars: Feb 27, 8:30pm. *tix link in bio original music by me & Alan video by @anikax.b #ambientmusic #labyrinth #ocean #synesthesia #soundbath

𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆: 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑫𝒖𝒃 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 动极生静 An Immersive Music Bath / Celebrating the Chinese Spring Festival / At the heart of Williamsburg @reforesters.io 🎋 Inspired by the spirit of the bamboo forest, we’ll bring you on a two-part music experience in between motion and stillness, designed to sync your body and mind for a reset~ With the scent of burning incense, we’ll start with dub techno, moving you all into a collective flow. As the energy shift, we’ll dissolve to deep ambient soundscapes woven with traditional Chinese instrumentation + microtonality, inviting you to sit, lie back, and find serenity. 🎋 Experience brought to you by — Cece Zhang (she/they), music artist specializing in left-field electronics, dark ambient soundscapes, and psychologically engaged activism. Her compositions and performances reflect her cross-cultural awareness, anatomical sensitivity, and oneiric approach to sound. — Alan Lecheng Chao (he/they), music producer, performer, and engineer specializing in spatial audio. Projects include “Sovietaxi” and “羽片 Slice Feathers”. His solo work emphasizes electronic ambient music that reflects tranquility and emotional tensions found in the East Asian culture. 🎋 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐅𝐞𝐛.𝟐𝟕 𝟖:𝟑𝟎 𝐏𝐌 – 𝟏𝟎:𝟎𝟎 𝐏𝐌 (Doors at 8:00 PM) 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐛 147 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249 🎟️ 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐨. Poster by @haoquan_wang0808 Original Music by Cece Zhang & Alan Lecheng Chao

One month ago, on the first day I arrived in Mexico City, I had a surreal dream. 👁️‍🗨️In the dream, the city appeared as a cluster of small castles. There was this complex web of energy flowing between them, part rivalry, part friendship, and I could see it all mapped out in my mind. Inside, the way furnitures were arranged seemed to trigger some hidden alchemical patterns. Then the dream shifted. A group of my peers were running, hiding into a cellar from a series killer or some threats. The castle was deeper than I could imagine as I went down floor after floor, until hitting a massive labyrinth. In the depths, I kept shifting into different people, yet also observing them from a distance in the third person. I woke up late the day after, reluctant to leave that world my dream took me to. A few days later, I was wandering through the Surrealist section at the Museo de Arte Moderno and ran into this cat painting (Alice Rahon’s “Ballad for Friday Kahlo”). The resemblance to my dream is wild…felt like I had been there👁️