Yunyu

Yunyu(王韵毓) is an Australian musician, film composer and singer-songwriter originally from Singapore, now living in New South Wales. She won Australia's Triple J Unearthed in 2002 with the song "You are Expendable", followed up with "A Prayer" a year later from her self-titled EP. Her music is mostly played on keyboards, pianoforte and synthesizers. Occasionally, when looking for variety, she will play the guzheng. Yunyu is an alumna of the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) with a Graduate Diploma of Screen Music, taught by Martin Armiger, Christopher Gordon and Kirke Godfrey. Yunyu won the Crystal Pine award for Best Original Score | Short Film category at the 2015 International Samobor Film Music Festival for her work on a hybrid documentary, inspired by Ted Egan’s folk song "The Drover’s Boy". She branched out to experiment with game and spatial music, after being introduced to virtual reality spaces by Michela Ledwidge from MOD Productions. This led to Yunyu modding the VR game Beat Saber, fusing wushu martial arts movements into the game of her own song composition, Pirates of the Silk Road, featuring guitars by Michael Sheridan, who she collaborated with from her last album, Twisted Tales. It was an exploration to see whether players can move and copy the choreographed wushu movements in time with the song, by hitting, slicing and avoiding blocks placed inside the game.