William Kuo’s practice infuses sound-making with cross-disciplinary investigation, questioning how the “sounding” and “un-sounding” co-exist to imply alternative forms of listening and timekeeping. Drawing attention to the sensing-self hearing itself from within, he seeks to invoke asynchronous experiences of time arising from encounters with unfamiliar pasts and unformed futures. 

His works take shape over long periods of experimentation. He engages with sound through instruments, recorded sound, live processing, everyday objects, and video. Elements of a work often empty into another, remolding themselves into the contours of future projects. As such, notions of multiplicity and recursivity echo throughout his creations.

William has presented his work at Wandering Sound Festival (Taiwan), Naxoshalle (Germany), Vancouver New Music (Canada), Klangspuren Festival (Austria), C-LAB (Taiwan Sound Lab), Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Netherlands), Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik (Austria), Cluster New Music Festival (Canada), Festival Voix Nouvelles (France), and ManiFeste Festival (France), among others. He was a finalist of the 2018 Gaudeamus Award and the artist-in-residence for the 2021 Creators Sound-Off Residency at the Taiwan Sound Lab. His work geht auf wie eine Blume was selected for the 2021 ISCM World New Music Days representing the Canadian section. He also performs electronics collaboratively, sharing the stage with Cube Band at the 2024 Wandering Sound Festival. In 2020, he performed with Karen Yu for the premiere of Augmented Aurality in Hong Kong as part of the 02022020.SPACE project. An hour-long recording of Augmented Aurality was released in 2022 under the Vintage Vinyl HK label.