
VIOLA
YIP
Liminal Lines (2022)
Liminal Lines is the development for the project “Between the Lines”. It is a live electronic music performance by Viola Yip on her self-made wearable instrument and her body movements. It explores a choreography between sound and movements, beyond the traditional notions of techniques and executions.
This wearable instrument, in the form of a dress, is made of various audio cables that allows audio signals to pass through. Her body, when wearing the dress, facilitates a wide range of distances, pressures, and speeds through her body movements. These body-and-instrument interactions devise performative relationships between the instrument and the human body, which allow complex sonorities to emerge and modulate over time.
Performance History:
Second version
16.06.2023 ON-NOEIS Party, ON Neue Musik Köln
03.06.2023 Duo with Noa Evens on saxophone, Splendor Amsterdam
30.05.2023 Duo with Noa Evens on saxophone, LOFT Köln
28.05.2023 Duo with Noa Evens on saxophone, Moers Festival
24.05.2023 Hochschule für Musik Detmold
17.05.2023 Hybrid Music Lab, Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden
11.03.2023 Spatial Works and Immersive Music Series, ZIMMT Leipzig
** commission to develop a 32-channel spatial audio for the dress
17.02.2023 Electric Spring, University of Huddersfield, UK
First version
Nov 12, 2022 ARD Hörspieltage 2022, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), Karlsruhe.
Sept 11, 2022 Yes festival, Uferstudio, Berlin
Nov 03, 2022 Sounding, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln

photo by Stephen Harvey, from the performance at Electric Spring, University of Huddersfield.
Feb 17, 2023.

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video still from the performance livestream.
ZiMMT in Leipzig. March 11, 2023