Ko-Hua Hung is an ethnomusicology PhD student at the University of California, Davis in her first year. She received her master’s degree in Musicology from National Taiwan University in 2018 where she studied with Professor Yamauchi Fumitaka. Her master’s thesis is entitled “Sounds Dislocation and Source Tracing: The Aesthetics of Space Displacement in Electronic Dance Music.” She now works with Professor Juan Diego Diaz, and her research explores sound studies in Chinese and Taiwanese popular musics, with focus on the relationship between sound and identity, media and technology, acousmatic listening, and electronic dance music. She presented the paper “Sounding Taiwanese identity: Lim Giong’s electronic dance music album Insects Awaken” at the International Musicological Society conference in 2017. Her current project titled “Alternative Expressions of Chineseness: Dow Wei’s Electronic Dance Music” has been presented at the NCCSEM conference in 2024. She plans to expand on these two projects for her dissertation. Although popular music is her main focus, she is also interested in applying sound studies in the film-opera genre. Additionally, she is a lover of rescue dogs, diary writing, and video games.