Yifan Guo is a Chinese composer, performer, and intermedia artist exploring multidimensional music perception experiences through both sonic and non-sonic elements. Guo's creative practice encompasses electroacoustic and instrumental composition, improvisation, and intermedia art. The compositional works investigate timbral, acoustic, kinesthetic, and semantic possibilities, often in combination with amplification systems featuring custom augmentations and innovative approaches to live sound processing. As a performer, Guo improvises on electronic instruments, laptop, DIY instruments, and various flutes and free reed instruments. The intermedia projects span music, technology, theater, and film, integrating sound, light, video, installation, and other creative means. Driven by the pure joy of sound-making and situation-creating, explorations of musical and cultural memory, and interpretations of social realities, Guo seeks to dissolve the boundaries between listening, seeing, and inhabiting a space.
With support from institutions including the Guangzhou Opera House, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Yu Long Studio, MacDowell Fellowship, Parkland Foundation, Qualcomm Institute, and AEP-CHINA, Guo's artistic endeavors have been featured at festivals and venues across more than ten countries. Highlights include performances at the ManiFeste Festival at IRCAM (France), Bludenz Days of Contemporary Music (Austria), MATA Festival (USA), Festival Mixtur (Spain), Rainy Days Festival (Luxembourg), Beijing Music Festival and MISA Festival of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (China), New and Newest Music Festival (Turkey), International Computer Music Conference, and Le Domaine Forget de Charlevoix (Canada), as well as at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall (USA), Château de Fontainebleau (France), CMMAS (Mexico), and Xinghai Concert Hall (China), among others.
Guo's collaborations extend to ensembles such as PinkNoise Ensemble, Black Page Orchestra, United Instruments of Lucilin, Alinéa Ensemble, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble l'Itinéraire, Vertixe Sonora Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Multilatérale, Palimpsest Ensemble, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Ensemble Paramirabo, JACK Quartet, Arditti Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, as well as to artists including multimedia artist Han Zhang, audio/visual artist Shihua Ma, computer music researcher Zehao Wang, lighting designer Shee Hoe Low, clarinetist Vasko Dukovski, flutist Xiaoyu Lin, violinist Ruifeng Lin, pianist Han Chen, double bassist Bowen Qian, harpist Valeria Kafelnikov, percussionist/conductor Steven Schick, and percussionist Yongyun Zhang, among others.
As an advocate for contemporary music and music technology, Guo shares perspectives on artistic concepts and practice, media technologies, and cultural contexts and histories through lectures and workshops at institutions including the Eastman School of Music, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, the School of Music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Xinghai Conservatory of Music, South China Normal University, East China Normal University, Shenzhen Technology University, and Guangzhou Opera House. Guo has also taught at the X-Institute in Shenzhen and UC San Diego.
Holding degrees from the Mannes School of Music (B.M. with honors) and the New England Conservatory of Music (M.M.), Guo is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, San Diego, studying composition with Michelle Lou, Rand Steiger, and Cory Smythe, lighting art with Christopher Kuhl, and video art with Michael Trigilio. Guo has also received mentorship in composition from Huang Ruo, Stratis Minakakis, John Mallia, Kaija Saariaho, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Lei Liang, Marcos Balter, and Chaya Czernowin, and in conducting from Daye Lin, Bill Drury, and David Hayes.
郭艺帆，旅美青年作曲家、跨媒介艺术家、表演者，现为加州大学圣地亚哥分校博士候选人及助理讲师。艺术实践涵盖电子声学与器乐创作、即兴演奏以及跨媒介艺术，近年来致力于通过音响与非音响元素探索多维度的音乐感知体验。其音乐作品深入挖掘音色、声学、动觉与语义层面的可能性，结合创新性扩声设计与实时声音处理；跨媒介项目则横跨音乐、科技、剧场与电影领域，融合声音、灯光、影像、装置等多种媒介。作为表演者，其常在电子乐器、电脑、DIY乐器以及各类笛和自由簧乐器上进行即兴或交互式表演。其创作源于声音生成与情境营造过程中的纯粹体验，落于对音乐与文化记忆的探索与对社会现场的再诠释。在不同形式的实践中，郭艺帆试图消解聆听、观看与身处空间之间的界限。
美国缅因晨报形容其室内乐为"有着像诗人沃尔特·惠特曼般的意境"，"充满诗意的音乐"；前法国蓬皮杜音乐与声学研究所（IRCAM）总监Jean-Baptiste Barrière称其音乐"充满活力和想象力"。其曾获Prix Marion Tournon-Branly、The Carl Schachter Award、The Mivos/Kanter Prize提名、I Creation提名等奖项，并获得来自广州大剧院、上海交响乐团、余隆工作室、麦克道威尔奖、鹏瑞艺术基金、纳迪亚·布朗热基金会、加州高通研究所、中国艺术拓展计划的支持。
2018年赴法国枫丹白露宫（Château de Fontainebleau）进行艺术驻留；2019年与纽约PinkNoise当代乐团进行中国巡演；2022年在广州大剧院首演受其委约创作的90分钟多媒体音乐剧场作品《弄影》，同年参与实验戏剧《一只猿的报告》的配乐创作；2023年受邀参加北京国际音乐节，进行器乐电子音乐作品音乐会展演；2026年入选麦克道威尔驻村艺术家。
郭艺帆的作品已在十余个国家的著名艺术节与场馆展演。演出场合包括法国蓬皮杜艺术中心IRCAM ManiFeste跨媒介艺术节、奥地利布卢登茨当代音乐节（Bludenz Days of Contemporary Music）、美国纽约MATA音乐节、西班牙Mixtur音乐节、卢森堡Rainy Days当代音乐节、北京国际音乐节、上海交响乐团MISA夏季音乐节、土耳其yeni ve en yeni音乐节、加拿大Le Domaine Forget de Charlevoix音乐节、国际计算机音乐大会（ICMC），以及纽约林肯表演艺术中心David Geffen Hall、纽约卡内基音乐厅、波士顿乔丹音乐厅、法国枫丹白露宫、墨西哥音乐与声音艺术中心（CMMAS）、广州大剧院、星海音乐厅等重要表演艺术舞台。合作团体包括PinkNoise Ensemble、Black Page Orchestra、United Instruments of Lucilin、Alinéa Ensemble、Ensemble Musikfabrik、Ensemble l'Itinéraire、Vertixe Sonora Ensemble、Ensemble Dal Niente、Palimpsest Ensemble、Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble、Ensemble Paramirabo、Ensemble Multilatérale、JACK Quartet、Arditti Quartet、Quatuor Diotima、广州交响乐团等；合作艺术家包括多媒体艺术家张涵、视听艺术家马仕骅、计算机音乐学者王泽昊、灯光艺术家刘诗豪、单簧管演奏家Vasko Dukovski、长笛演奏家林笑语、小提琴演奏家林瑞沣、钢琴演奏家陈涵、低音提琴演奏家钱博文、竖琴演奏家Valeria Kafelnikov、打击乐演奏家及指挥家Steven Schick、打击乐演奏家张永韵等。
作为当代音乐与音乐科技的积极推广者，其曾受邀于伊斯曼音乐学院、北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校、墨西哥新莱昂自治大学、香港中文大学（深圳）音乐学院、四川音乐学院、星海音乐学院、华南师范大学、华东师范大学、深圳技术大学、广州大剧院等艺术院校和机构进行学术讲座与工作坊，分享其在艺术观念与实践、媒体技术、文化语境与历史等方面的思考。此外，其曾任教于深圳零一学院及加州大学圣地亚哥分校。
郭艺帆先后毕业于曼尼斯音乐学院及新英格兰音乐学院，现于加州大学圣地亚哥分校师从Michelle Lou、Rand Steiger、Cory Smythe学习作曲，师从Christopher Kuhl学习灯光艺术，师从Michael Trigilio学习影像艺术。此前亦曾跟随黄若、Stratis Minakakis、John Mallia、Kaija Saariaho、Jean-Baptiste Barrière、梁雷、Marcos Balter、Chaya Czernowin学习作曲，跟随林大叶、Bill Drury、David Hayes学习管弦乐指挥。
