Winnie Liu (劉蕙雯 / Hui-Wen Liu) is a Taiwanese media composer, sound designer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. Working across film, theater, games, exhibitions, pop music, and experimental art, she specializes in hybrid acoustic textures that blend strings, woodwinds, and electronic synthesis. Her work is deeply informed by psychology, cultural inquiry, and contemporary social issues, using sound as a narrative and emotional bridge within visual media.

 

One of Winnie’s notable projects, Drifting Roots, an experimental interactive music and dance work she co-produced and composed, was presented at the 2023 Taiwan C-LAB Sound Festival Diversonics in a 49.4-channel immersive sound laboratory, with technical support from IRCAM. The project was also recognized at the Taipei Fringe Festival, where it received the Fringe Space Award. In 2021, she was selected as one of the composers for the Chinese-language Silent Films Composition Project Love and Duty, organized by C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab (TSL) and the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute.

 

Her recent score for the experimental film Pacify won Best Style Film at the Style Experimental Fashion Film Festival and was officially recognized by Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival and Experimental Forum.

 

Winnie is also a staff member of impact-driven game studio Polyvale Studios. She composed and designed sound for Maybe We Saved the World, the grand prize winner of Just Play: A Game Jam for Climate Futures and a featured project at the Hollywood Climate Summit, as well as Diem, the grand prize winner of the Citizens, Assemble! competition.

 

She holds a BFA in Cello Performance from National Sun Yat-sen University and an MFA in Music Composition for the Screen from Columbia College Chicago. Winnie was a mentee in the 2025 SCL Mentor Program and the 2024 ScreenCraft Works Mentorship Program, and is an active member of SCL, AWFC, CDC, and ASMAC.

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