Vivian Li 李雯慧★彡

🦋✨Throwing it back to one of the most memorable performances I’ve shared with the audience, at @akousma , on October 16th 2024~ 💜Memory Playback💜is a deeply personal piece—a reflection on how sound can hold our memories, yet reveal their fleeting nature as they blur, fade, and reshape over time. I’m beyond grateful that it resonated, winning a prize at the 2024 Concours de composition acousmatique petites formes. Big thanks to the Akousma team and Louis Dufort @dufortlouis for the opportunity, to @caroline.campeau for the beautiful pictures (2-4-5-7), to @panm360 for their support and interest, —especially Alain Brunet for his interview and Salima Bouaraour @shadya_ckk for her wonderful review—and to @chez.kito.kat_records , whose upcoming cassette compilation inspired the birth of this composition. You can listen to my piece on their release or on my personal bandcamp~🌌✨ 💜 #AkousmaFestival #akousma #SoundArt #MontrealMusic #ConcoursAcousmatique

After 6 years of bathing in some strange comfort of structure, graduating from my bachelor’s in “computer music” feels like a grand relief laced with anxiety.

~ Memory Playback ~ at Ultrasons, 12/21/23 Université de Montréal Tapes mirror the elusive nature of memories, imagined and forgotten, degrade and distort over time. THANKS to the following individuals for their precious sonic memories: Aya Avalon, Dominic Thibault, Evan Magoni, Joël Lavoie, Julia E Dyck, Juju Tieman, Lisa Pulsatilla, Lea Calonne, Louise Mackenzie, Marc-Antoine Bernier, Nicolas Bernier, Nicolas Duchemin, Patrick Vespa et Shane Turner. #nocomputer

ELECTRIC LAMPHOUSE live ambient music on May 1st! (New, 2nd Poster!) Featuring sets by Vivian Li, Malte Leander, and Room2 Lamphouse is a cozy venue lit by a lot of lamps, about 10 mins walk from Joliette Metro Tickets are $10 and spaces are very limited! Send an E-transfer to connorjrcook at gmail dot com to reserve your place Doors will be at 7:30

Snippets from our last show at @koalakarnival ~ Thanks @ellezinck for having us and for holding space for magic and slowness✨ Documentation by @patriciavu27 ~~~~ Psssst: we’re brewing a new album!! Excitinggg ><~

It still feels surreal to me that on April 8th, two years ago, I had the chance to witness a solar eclipse while listening to music I had composed specifically for it. The process felt like composing for a film that didn’t exist yet. I had the script, the characters, the duration, i knew the story from beginning to end. But the images were inaccessible. I could only imagine, and try my best to tailor a composition to something i had never actually seen. And then, during the eclipse, hearing the music with the event for the first time, it was like finally watching the film. It unfolded almost exactly as I had imagined, and yet felt completely different. It was infinitely more immersive and embodied, something impossible to anticipate. It was also one of the rare moments where i saw my dad smile out of pure amazement. I felt a collection of novelty, completion, excitement, satisfaction. And layered on top of that, the awe of witnessing and being part of this astronomical event, my heart racing, from seeing the eclipse, hearing and sharing my music and speaking about it with ~3000 people, 5 minutes before the eclipse happened… May i also mention that, it was composed in collaboration with Thomas Augustin, and i actually played those vibraphone lines (it’s not MIDI!). [Link in my linktree] Thanks @domtibo.sound for the trust and the opportunity ~ and Université de Montréal for the funding and the commission. Photo credits: 2-3-4-5: Amélie Philibert 6: Pierre Boudrias

Un/Stitching Concert de musique par synthèse concaténative live@CIRMMT 20 mars, 19:30 #experimentalmusic #immersivemusic #liveelectronics #research-creation #sounddesign

Première artiste à présenter jeudi une œuvre, Sonic Memories of Fleeting Times, au festival @akousma , et ce malgré son absence physique, Vivian Li est aussi la récipiendaire du concours Jeu de temps / Times Play de la Communauté électroacoustique canadienne (CEC). Cette compétition met en valeur de nouvelles œuvres électroacoustiques produites par des compositeurs, compositrices et artistes sonores, jeunes ou émergent.e.s, du ou vivant au Canada. Entrevue réalisée par Léa Dieghi sur #musiqueacoustique #electroacoustique #musiquedecreation

Grateful for a break, for traveling, new friends, and simple pleasures. I’ve been thinking about how, if I were born a generation earlier, much of this—being an artist, traveling alone, having this kind of freedom—would’ve been nearly impossible. And knowing the current state of the world, where war is still a daily reality for some nations, I feel I have little to complain about. Still, it’s strange that it often takes comparison to notice our privilege—because while it can make us more thankful, it can also be a source of greed.

some digi shots from the past year🌌🫶

Group Therapy Ritual 💊 A bilingual collective enactment of ritual treatment inviting interaction, repetition and energy sharing in order to harness transformative power of collective rest and transcendence. Using targeted frequencies, binaural beats and textural patterns that are guaranteed to massage feel-good neurotransmitters like endorphins and dopamine, APP uses verbal suggestion and memory recall to activate activity in under stimulated brain regions linked to moods, emotional reactions, and self-awareness. Premiered at Sight + Sound festival in Montreal last spring @easternblocmtl Dank aan de Vlaamse Overheid @vlaamseoverheid voor de steun aan mijn reis voor deze presentatie.

2 part live ambient set with @echonymphia , vibes and visuals by @sophie.marisol 💜 Perfectly magical formula to balance dancefloor heatwaves and detoxify summertime sadness @xo_noir x @giegling July 6th mtl Tix in bio