film/theatre music
Sound art
Tan Tan’s music and sound creations frequently intersect with her moving-image works and performance art, reflecting her long-term dedication to intermedia practice.
Over the past decade, she has composed many pieces of music and sound art for her films and artworks,
Since 2015, she has also been creating music and sound design for theatre productions and participating in their performances.
In addition to creating music for her own works, she also composed for director Li Ning’s physical theatre piece A Dictionary of Souls and the film Workshop (2015–2022). In 2025, she created the score for director Donglin Wang’s film Prayer, for which she received the Best Original Score Award at the Cyprus International Film Festival (one of the world’s top 100 film festivals) and a Best Score nomination at the Bridges International Film Festival in Greece.
Film music
Wish (2025)
Composers：Tan Tan, Ni Qi
Vocal: Tan Tan
Director: Dong Linwang
The Workshop(2022)
Composers： Wolfgang Mitterer, Tan Tan
Vocal: Tan Tan
Director: Li Ning
Unknown Ritual No.1（2015）
Composers： Eric Bribosia，Tan Tan
More info see: http://tan-tan.org/unknown-ritual
Theatre music
The Dictionary of Soul (2015-2019)
Worked with Eric Bribosia as group TanBo, designed the music and sound.
Participated in the performance at： 2015 Beijing Fringe Festival, China, September; 2016 Wuzhen Theatre Festival, China, October; 2019“Creative China Festival”, La Mama Experimental theater, New York, the US, February.
More info see: http://tan-tan.org/the-dictionary-of-soul
SOUnd art
Venize Biennale (2015-)
Three sound artworks belong to this long-term project.
More info see：http://tan-tan.org/venize-biennale-online-exhibition2015
Stop this Performance
At the 56th International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale in 2015, Tan Tan joined a participatory performance voluntarily and interacted with the performers, but she was suddenly stopped by one of them. Tan Tan appreciated his performance, then she made his words into a hip-hop song.
Marx travels in Venice
Today, in the 21st century, Marx comes to the worldwide famous “tourist heaven” Venice with his “Das Kapital Oratorio”, but he didn’t imagine that his book would be read for 7 months on the stage of Venice Biennale!
Happy new year from TanBo
An official declaration of awarded artists TanBo at the stage of Venize Biennale! Issued on the first day of 2016.
