Viola Yip
Experimental composer, Performer, Sound Artist & Instrument Builder
A Native of Hong Kong, Viola Yip is an experimental composer, performer, sound artist and instrument builder. Her work has been focusing on developing hardware and software instruments and performances that explore audiovisuality, materiality, performativity, relationality, affect as well as the human-machine relationships between the digital and the analog worlds.
Viola's instruments and performances have been presented in major music festivals and concert series in New York, Missouri, Chicago, San Diego, Boston, Bowling Green, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Ithaca, Saratoga Springs, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Dublin, Belfast, Manchester, Huddersfield, Madeira, Zurich, Ghent, Amsterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Berlin and Darmstadt.
Viola has also given talks and presentations at University of Chicago, Stanford University, Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University, California State University San Bernardino, Simon Fraser University, Hong Kong Baptist University and City University of Hong Kong.
Recent telematic performances include RUIDO/TVL REC streamfest (Buenos Aires), Gray Sound Sessions from Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago, Fresh Perspectives (Cleveland), Electronzone (Ithaca) and Infrequent Seam streamfest (New York/California).
