Biography
After completing her horn performance degree at Taipei Soochow University (2001–2005), Olifa Hsieh continued to Lübeck University of Music in Germany, where she earned her Advanced Performer's Master (2009). She then studied electronic music composition and performance at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater / European Live Electronic Center (EULEC), receiving a certification in 2011.
In 2011 she entered the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg), pursuing a Master in Time-based Media Art. During this period she collaborated with artists across Germany and Taiwan, completing her degree in 2017 with the thesis Invisible Architecture: The Spatiality of Sound.
Since returning to Taiwan in 2017, she has been active in sound art, electroacoustic improvisation, experimental composition, and contemporary theater. Her works combine instrumental techniques with sound technology and cross-disciplinary performance, pushing the limits of acoustic expression through spatial imagination.
In 2018 she began a Ph.D. at National Yanming Chiao Tung University's Graduate Institute of Architecture, researching Mixed Reality, Immersive Experience, and Spatial Audio. In 2022 she was awarded a national scholarship by the Ministry of Science and Technology to conduct a doctoral research fellowship at the Allosphere Institute / MAT at UC Santa Barbara.