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Wei Ting Tseng is a Taiwanese cellist, composer, curator, and interdisciplinary artist based in Oslo. Her artistic practice grows out of an early experience of imbalance between voice, power, and attention: growing up in a large household in Yuanlin, Taiwan, she often found her voice overshadowed by louder voices around her. This led her to a long-term inquiry into listening—not only as a musical act, but as a bodily and political condition shaped by acoustics, memory, gender, and space.

 

Wei Ting originally only wanted to obediently play the cello in an orchestra. But the emotions that never quieted kept pulling her toward places that “did not originally belong to her.” After many years of being a well-behaved child, she began to sense a quiet fear: if she stopped speaking altogether, would she simply disappear? Speaking loudly was never easy for her, which is also why she chose the cello. When the sound of the cello was still not enough to speak for her, she expanded her practice into installation, and visual scores, using video, image, gesture, and workshops as open systems where intuition and structure coexist.

 

Her work moves between contemporary, improvised, and early music, and between solo performance, ensemble work, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She is active in experimental music and contemporary art contexts across Europe and Asia, with presentations at venues and festivals including Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, nyMusikk Oslo, Nasjonal jazzscene, Only Connect Festival, Nasjonalmuseet, and Kunstnernes Hus.

 

Her debut solo cello album will be released through Nakama Records in early 2027.

曾瑋婷是一位旅居挪威奧斯陸的台灣大提琴家、作曲家、策展人與跨領域藝術家。她的藝術實踐源於早期對聲音、權力與注意力之間失衡的經驗:在台灣員林的一個大家庭中長大,她經常感覺自己的聲音被周圍更大的聲音所掩蓋。這也使她長期關注「聆聽」這件事——不僅作為一種音樂行為,更是一種由聲學、記憶、性別與空間所形塑的身體性與政治性狀態。

 

曾瑋婷原本只想乖乖地在樂團裡拉大提琴,但那些始終無法安靜下來的情緒,把她帶向許多「本來不屬於她」的地方。做了那麼多年乖孩子後,她開始感到一種微弱的恐懼:如果不再開口說話,自己會不會就這樣消失?但要大聲說話並不容易,這也是她選擇拉大提琴的原因。當大提琴的聲音仍不足以替她發聲時,她便將創作延伸至裝置與視覺樂譜,透過影像、圖像、動作與工作坊,建立一種讓直覺與結構共存的開放系統。

 

她的作品穿梭於當代音樂、即興音樂與早期音樂之間,也跨越獨奏、室內樂與跨領域合作。她活躍於歐洲與亞洲的實驗音樂與當代藝術場域,曾於 Ultima 當代音樂節、nyMusikk Oslo、Nasjonal jazzscene、Only Connect 當代音樂節、挪威國家美術館以及 Kunstnernes Hus 等地演出。

 

她的首張大提琴個人專輯預計將於 2027 年初由 Nakama Records 發行。

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