Vivian Li

Vivian Li is a Chinese-Canadian, Montreal based sound artist, composer and musician. Her works explores the emotional, perceptual and healing potential of sound. Working primarily with synthesizers, field recordings, and electroacoustic techniques, she creates music that is intimate, gentle and emotionally resonant. Her compositions evolve slowly through repetition, duration, and subtle transformation. Drones, looping structures and gradual harmonic shifts create environments where meaning emerges over time through attentive listening. Through field recordings and personal archives, she work on themes such as memory, presence, and the human experience, amplifying the quiet beauty of everyday sonic realities.

She has performed and presented work at Karachi Biennale (Pakistan), Akousma (Montreal), MUTEK (Montreal), Société des Arts Technologiques (Montréal), Pique (Ottawa, ON), Sound Art Lab (Struer, DK), Inkonst (Malmö, SE), Eastern Bloc (Montreal), perte de signal (Montreal), Kwia (Berlin, DE), and Phi Fondation (Montreal). She has released on labels such as Sound as Language (Carolina, US), Jeunesses Cosmique (Montreal), Chez Kito Kat (Montreal) and Unheard Records (Los Angeles, US). She is one half of synth/harp duo Echönymphia (with Coralie Gauthier) and part of Audio Placebo Plaza (with Julia E. Dyck and Erin Gee). She hosts a monthly radio show ‘Lo Signal’ on local community radio station CKUT 90.3fm every first Wednesdays 10pm-midnight. This 2-hours slot serves as a sonic playground, where she plays her ambient scraps, field recordings, sonic experiments, and diary excerpts.