Viola Yip

Artistic and Research Focus

  • Sound Art and Experimental Composition
  • Expanded Sound Technology
  • Instrument Building
  • Performance and Installation practice

Foto: Stephen Harvey

Curriculum Vitae

Viola Yip is an experimental composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, instrument builder and researcher. In her practice, she develops unorthodox self-built instruments, compositions and performances that explore the complex and dynamic relationships between materiality, media, space, human and machine through sounds.

Her instruments and sound performances have been presented in music festivals and venues such as Issue Project Room (NYC), The New School (NYC), Look and Listen Festival (NYC), DiMenna Center (NYC), CCRMA at Stanford University, CNMAT at UC Berkeley, Center for New Music (SF), Constellation (Chicago), Cycling ‘74 Expo, Hong Kong Arts Center (HK), Sonic Arts Research Center at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Huddersfield (UK), Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves in Porto, NEXT festival Bratislava, QO-2 Brussels, Moers Festival, Seanaps Festival Leipzig, ZiMMT Leipzig, Festival für Immaterielle Kunst Hamburg, Blurred Edges Festival Hamburg and Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Kunst Station Sankt Peter Köln, A L’arme! Festival Berlin, DARA String Festival Berlin, Heroines of Sound Berlin, and Akademie der Künste Berlin, 

She received an Honorary Mention from Giga-Hertz-Preis 2021 at ZKM in Karlsruhe.

https://www.violayip.com

Selected Works and Performances

  • Dedicated Play Festival, KM28, Berlin, Performance (KM28 Berlin) Dez. 2024
  • New Music for Interface and Expression, Performance (NIME Utrecht) Sept. 2024
  • Liminal Lines performance for self-built PVC dress, speaker cables, body movements and electronics (Electric Spring Huddersfield UK, ZIMMT Leipzig, Monk Space Los Angeles etc.) 2023
  • Forms of Erasure (with Ken Ueno), performance for voices, movements, objects and electronics (Look and Listen Festival at Home Edition) 2021
  • Lazy Studies performance for modified lazy susan with audio feedback (New York University, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University etc.) 2018