ningruiliu

Ningrui Liu (also known as Akira) is a London-based transmedia artist working across sound, film, performance, dance, and spoken word. With a background in film editing and visual media, her practice explores interdisciplinarity through collaborations with experimental musicians, improvisers, and performance collectives. She is particularly interested in chance, process, and the unknown, often using moving image and live performance to create immersive, time-based works.

10018751@network.rca.ac.uk
Instagram:iimakira

01.

Tigersonic VS. Akira: Music making using I Ching, or book of changes Collaborations.

London UK, Sep 2025

Freely improvised music

Centres on the I Ching as both compositional framework and philosophical anchor. Working from Felix’s underground studio in Islington, they tossed coins, interpreted hexagrams, and responded instinctively with sound and image. The resulting works are equal parts composition, chaos, and cosmic joke. The process itself, messy, playful and intuitive is folded back into the films and tracks, creating a feedback loop between chance and authorship.

These Two pieces Feng and Tai emerged from the sessions. Both began with the toss of coins; Track 2 features drums by Mike Skelton, originally recorded for Film of Changes: How to Play the Biangu

02.

Film of Changes, (or How I Free Myself with Rules),

Individual work, UK
2022-2024

Documentary, Experimental Art

03.

Music : Etudes Study Group / Trio: Lolang, Folorunsho & Wilding / Sharon Gal.

Hundred Years Gallery London UK, 2025

Live Performance, freely improvised music

Visual Artist: Mizuki Tanahara @tanamizu

04.

Mopomoso Matriarchal March

Vortex Jazz Club in London UK2025

Live Performance, freely improvised music

Mopomoso is the UK’s longest running concert series dedicated to freely improvised music!

Photo: Chris Freeman