Sun Qianhui (Sanki) is an interdisciplinary artist working across sound art, painting, photography, and visual arts. Her work explores the intersections of perception, memory, and emotion, constructing immersive experiences through sound, imagery, installation, and performance to reveal the intricate relationships between individuals and their environments.
In sound art, Sun Qianhui specializes in experimental electronic music, environmental soundscapes, and interactive installations. Her work spans multiple media, including games, films, and animation. Under the name Sanki, she performs live sound experiments, blending noise, sampling, and synthesis to create deeply atmospheric sonic narratives.
Her visual art practice also carries a distinctive emotional intensity and symbolism. Her painting style oscillates between abstraction and expressionism, characterized by bold color contrasts, raw textures, and symbolic imagery that reflect themes of identity, social structures, and the fluidity of memory. Her photography explores the interplay of light, space, and time, capturing fragmented narratives that blur the boundaries between reality and imagination.
Currently based in London, she continues to experiment at the intersection of sound, visual art, and performance, seeking new modes of expression and challenging conventional sensory perceptions.
Art Work List
- Opening Performance for The Big Mixer – The Good Rice, London, 2024
- Opening Performance for The Big Mixer – The Good Rice, London, 2024
- Band Performance for Daydream – Unihood x2 & Temperature Home, London, 2025
- Band Performance for Daydream – Unihood x2 & Temperature Home, London, 2025
- Band Performance for Daydream – Unihood x2 & Temperature Home, London, 2025
- Wake Up Show – St. John’s Church, London, 2025 (Music composition & performance for Deluge)
- Live Improvisation Performance – Central Saint Martins, London, 2024
QIANHUI’S ART PAINTINGS
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QIANHUI SUN — BROKEN DREAM
INSTAGRAM / LITTLE RED BOOK
Musician :Sanki
Atmosphere/ Electronic/ Experimental/ Noise/ Trap/ Techno
Base London and Beijing
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZB9pnnruYxeVar1stntufnj4TT05Xn9n&si=CBaCdKY2euYMPz_f
sanki.bandcamp.com
Inspired by fragments of childhood memories, the album unfolds as a dream experiment, where forgotten echoes resurface in unfamiliar forms. It is neither a reconstruction nor a preservation, but rather a reinterpretation—an invitation to lose yourself in the shifting layers of sound and experience something entirely new. Let’s just have fun.
This is an electronic music album reconstructed with Chinese minority music, the samples in this song are taken from the yelling of the knife sharpeners downstairs when I was a child.
This is an electronic music album reconstructed with Chinese minority music, the samples in this song are taken from Hani rituals and Wa wooden drums, and fused with ambient music experimentally
Beijing
This is an electronic experimental music album reconstructed with Chinese minority music, the samples in the songs come from Han Chinese folk songs "GanShengLing", combined with trap elements to form experimental music.
Beijing
This is an electronic music album reconstructed from the music of China's ethnic minorities. The samples in this song are taken from the shouting soul of the Lisu people. Shouting is an old Chinese belief folklore, popular in most parts of the country. In ancient times, it was believed that when a person died of a disease, his soul was scattered and he had to invoke the soul to restore his spirit and prolong his life, thus the custom of "invoking the soul".
London
This is an electronic music album restructured with Chinese minority music. The samples in this song are taken from the Bi Mo chanting of the Yi ethnic group. BiMo masters the ancient Yi language and the knowledge of their own culture and customs, history and religion, and can preside over the ritual activities in the village, such as sacrificing to the fire god (torch festival), mountain god, etc., as well as praying for ghosts and curing illnesses, divining, and weddings. Bi Mo is the inheritor of Yi traditional culture. In the Yi people, Bi Mo is regarded as the messenger of the gods.
London
Single release
Musician :Sanki
Atmosphere/Electronic/ Experimental/ Noise/ Trap/ Techno
Base London and Beijing
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZB9pnnruYxeVar1stntufnj4TT05Xn9n&si=CBaCdKY2euYMPz_f
sanki.bandcamp.com
These are some of the individually released tracks in the genres of dark ambient, noise, experimental and fusion techno. Just some crazy attempts, hope you guys enjoy them!
Hideous Mess
London
There's a ghost dancing in the sky
London
Welcome to my garden
London
Don't care about anything, just be crazy
London