With her music, Dao explores loops in an atypical manner, creating soundscapes, drones, and complex layered rhythmic improvisations, generating the perfect environment for her words and poetry, often quoting poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Lydia Lunch. At once powerful, fragile and abrasive, her music finds its roots in a large spectrum of sounds, going from traditional and ritual music to electronics, noise, and avant-garde bands as Psychic TV, Neu!, Tony Conrad, and Silver Apples.