Sui Zhen

Becky Sui Zhen Freeman is a musician, songwriter, producer and interdisciplinary artist working across sound, moving image, performance and digital media. As Sui Zhen, her shape-shifting sound explores identity, memory, loss, connection and the ways technology shapes human experience. Her albums Secretly Susan (2015) and Losing, Linda (2019) constructed elaborate personas and visual worlds to explore identity, womanhood and digital afterlives. Following the sudden loss of her three-day-old son in 2021, Freeman found music extraordinarily difficult to contend with, returning eventually through loose, improvisational sessions with a new ensemble of jazz-trained collaborators. Those sessions informed Witness (2026): a record in which Freeman lets go of the elaborate worlds of her earlier work to discover what music can hold without them.