Akousma | Vivian Li and The Therapeutic Properties of Sound

Interview by Alain Brunet

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A student of digital music/electroacoustics at the Université de Montréal, talented young Montrealer Vivian Li is driven by a fascination for the therapeutic and temporal properties of sound. Her music beautifully integrates sound frequencies that can be described as hypnotic, soothing, with field recordings of everyday life, intimate or public. Vivian Li is also host of LoSignal on CKUT, where she broadcasts the product of her research in a radio art approach. We also know that her piece Éclipse, composed in concert with Thomas Augustin, made its way to last spring’s solar eclipse.

In this case, this Wednesday Vivian Li presents Memory Playback, an album that “explores the potential of sound to preserve and resurrect memories”. The recordings that make up the raw material are intended to be autobiographical, “fragments of intimacy and memories that resurface, distorted, almost distant, teetering on the edge of total disintegration. “For PAN M 360, Alain Brunet interviewed Vivian Li to discover the foundations of her nascent work.

Photo Credit : Aidan McMahon

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