Kaestin Hsiao
Kaestin is a Brooklyn-based musician, songwriter, poet, and painter whose multidisciplinary practice bridges sound, language, and image. He holds a degree in Sound Art from Brooklyn College, where he developed an approach that treats listening as both medium and philosophy.
While Kaestin identifies first as a musician and songwriter, his lyric sensibility extends naturally into poetry, and more recently into painting. What began as distinct pursuits now folds together into a cohesive voice—each discipline echoing the other in rhythm, tone, and atmosphere. His paintings, still an emerging part of his practice, carry the same musicality as his compositions: visual chords struck in color and form, attuned to resonance as much as representation.
Kaestin’s work is marked by a search for coherence across mediums, a desire to hold song, poem, and image in dialogue. He belongs to a generation of artists for whom genre is not a boundary but a set of instruments, different ways of playing the same inner music.