Vivian Li

She is a classically trained pianist and, after studying jazz piano at École de musique Vincent-d’Indy, she completed a Bachelor of Digital Music at Université de Montréal. 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). In 2024, she won jury and audience prize of Concours de Compositions Acousmatiques petites formes with her piece Memory Playback. That same year, Université de Montréal commissioned a collaborative composition from her for the total solar eclipse of April 8th. In 2025, she won 2nd prize of JTTP (Jeu de temps/Times Play) with her piece Sonic Memories of Fleeting Times. 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.