VIOLA
YIP
Bulbble (2019)
for multichannel electro-mechanical DIY instrument with lightbulbs and relays.
Bulbble is an electronic DIY instrument that allows music created from the pulse-timbre continuum of acoustic sounds that are generated from relays, the electromagnetic relationships between relays as well as incorporating pulses of relays, electricity, lights and sounds as vibrations. Using buttons, knobs, relays, and lightbulbs, Viola also explores the sonic and performative relationships that emerges from these relationships.
Bulbble receives an Honorary Mention from Giga Hertz Preis from ZKM (Center for Arts and Media) in Karlsruhe in 2021.
Performance History
March 14, 2023 Liebig 12, Berlin
Oct 21, 2022 Schallfront, OSCO, Hannover
Mar 14, 2022 Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), UC Berkeley
Feb 28, 2022 Artist-in-Residence, Sound Art Series, Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Yale University
Sept 11, 2021 Festival für Immaterielle Kunst 2021, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
Aug 13, 2021 Suture Soven Festival, Dannenberg, Germany
Apr 24, 2021 NUNC!4 conference at Northwestern University
Mar 07, 2021 “Floriography” at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago
Jan 10, 2021 Active Listening Festival, Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin, Germany
Oct 26, 2020 Music Mondays series, Bennington College, VT, USA. online event.
Sept 19, 2020 Festiwal solowych wyltspów improv., Macondo, Wrocław, Poland
Feb 22, 2020 Music Hackathon, Weav Music, Brooklyn, NY, US
Jan 29, 2020 Odd Wednesday at ACUD macht neu, in collaboration with violinist Biliana Vouchtkova,
Berlin , Germany
Jan 11, 2020 Women Between Arts at the Stone / the New School, New York, New York
October 8, 2019 Blechtrommel at NYU, New York, New York
August 25, 2019 Soon #2, Spectrum, Brooklyn, New York, NY
August 4, 2019 My Favorite Machines, Willows Nest, Berlin, Germany
June 12, 2019 DC Currents, Helicopter project space, the Hague, Netherlands.
May 15, 2019 No Hay Banda concert series #13, La Sala Rossa, Montreal, Canada
April 27, 2019 Cycling ’74 Expo, Mohawk Theater, North Adams, MA
April 26, 2019 Closing Performance at Thessia Machado’s solo exhibition “Toward the Unsound”, Arts Club of
Chicago, Chicago, IL
April 13, 2019 Aotuspace, Beijing.
April 12, 2019 Miji concert 60, studio h, Beijing
April 05, 2019 Subliminal Lounge 05: Sunergy, SAAL, Hong Kong
Mar 21, 2019 duo with Daniel Silliman on modular synth, Subjective Objects, 61 local, Brooklyn, NY
Mar 23, 2019 Viola Yip and Her Material Girl, solo portrait concert, as part of the 2nd Annual Female Composers
Festival at Spectrum, New York, NY Mar 21, 2019 - 1106 Reedsdale Street, Pittsburgh, PA
Mar 14, 2019 Super Dark Thursdays, Desperate Annie’s, Saratoga Spring, NY
Mar 9, 2019 Electrozone, Grayhaven Motel, Ithaca, NY
Mar 7, 2019 Broad Statement, hosted by The Rhythm Method, The Cell, New York, NY
Online-specific iteration for Music Mondays at Bennington College, Vermont, USA
Solo performance for Women Between Arts, the New School, New York, USA