电气笙倻啵啵脆
Brelectra Shengapøp
Heading 3
March 7, 2026 · 7:30 PM
initial research
41 Wooster St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10013
Poster designed by Haolun Liu
1. The Unfilled - Multimedia Theater
Directing/Video by Chen Shuhe Yue
Sound/Lighting Design by Tianyu Zou
Performing/Sheng by Li-chin Li
2. Levi Lu/Tianyu Zou/Li-chin Li
Intermission
3. DoYeon Kim/Levi Lu
4. DoYoen Kim/Li-chin Li
Many thanks to our sound engineer Nhat Nguyen and videographer Freddie Zhu!
Musicians
Sheng
Li-Chin Li
Li-Chin Li is an internationally active sheng performer and performing artist dedicated to breaking traditional boundaries. From 2012 to 2017, she served as a member of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, where she refined her mastery of traditional instrumentation and accumulated extensive professional performance experience. As a core member of the improvisation ensemble Ka Dao Yin (aka Caught Up In), she was awarded the "Best Crossover Album" at the 25th Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music for their album Slow. Her solo creations and performances are highly acclaimed within the industry; her sheng recital Taiwan Sheng Girl and her music theatre production From Musical Collaboration to Interpersonal Collaboration were both nominated for the prestigious Taishin Arts Award.
Beyond her exceptional performance skills, Li-Chin is a pioneering explorer in the fusion of contemporary music technology and traditional instrumentation. Since 2016, she has been invited to participate in "SHENG!", an eight-year global research project initiated by TPMC in collaboration with IRCAM (France). She currently serves as a collaborating musician for the ERC REACH & ANR MERCI projects within IRCAM, deeply involved in the development and experimentation of the SoMax2 co-creative interactive music system. Her artistic footprint spans the globe, with frequent invitations to avant-garde festivals such as the Ruhrtriennale in Germany, IRCAM ManiFeste in Paris, and the Royaumont Voix Nouvelles (Transcultural Music Academy).
Li-Chin’s artistic journey traverses Asia, Europe, and the Americas. She was a recipient of the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) fellowship for an artistic exchange in New York and was selected by the Taiwan Ministry of Culture for a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She has performed with world-class ensembles including the Lapland Chamber Orchestra (Finland), Ensemble CAIRN, and Ensemble LINEA (France). Using the sheng as a medium to construct unknown auditory worlds, her work frequently involves improvisation, multimedia interaction, and embodied performance, striving to find a new contemporary presence for Asian traditional sound heritage at the intersection of society and technology.
Gayageum
DoYeon Kim is an internationally acclaimed artist known for her expansive and pioneering performances and compositions and for introducing the gayageum, an ancient Korean zither, into contemporary music. Trained extensively in jazz and improvisation as well as in the canon of classical Korean music including sanjo, jeongak, and modern gugak, DoYeon channels history, literature, and an ever-evolving sense of the human spirit in a musical language entirely her own through her original compositions, powerful solo performances, and collaborations with artists around the world. Recognized as one of 7 Musicians Pushing Ancient Asian Instruments Into The Future (Grammy.com, 2021), she has received the Van Lier Fellowship (2023) and been nominated for a Korean Grammy Award (crossover category, 2018). Most recently, she was selected as a Next Jazz Legacy awardee (2025), further solidifying her presence in the contemporary jazz scene.
In the course of her traditional training in Korea, DoYeon won numerous competitions including the Dong-A Ilbo Traditional Music and the National Gugak Center Korean Music Competitions. Seeking to bring Korean traditional idioms into conversation with global contemporary music, she later pursued degrees in contemporary improvisation and jazz from the New England Conservatory and from the Berklee Global Jazz Institute—both programs to which she was the first student ever admitted to play a Korean traditional instrument. Following her graduate studies, DoYeon has served on the faculty at the New England Conservatory and The New School, and as a guest lecturer at several universities worldwide including Harvard, Franz Liszt Academy, and Universidad Nacional De Colombia.
DoYeon regularly leads her own music projects, working with ensembles of diverse size and composition, and she frequently collaborates with composers, performers, and artists of all disciplines. She currently serves as an invited composer for the Delirium Musicum string orchestra (2025), Music Director for the ACCX Music Festival Gwangju (2025), and music director and conductor for the Gyeonggi Sinawi Orchestra (2023). She has performed and recorded alongside such notable musicians as Tyshawn Sorey, Mark Dresser, Kris Davis, Peter Evans, Matt Mitchell, Anna Webber, Joe Morris, Tony Malaby, Mat Maneri, Cooper-Moore, and many others.
Creative Team
Composer/Sound Artist
Qiujiang Levi Lu/卢秋江 is an experimental musician, media artist, and composer based in the United States. Lu invents electroacoustic instruments that use the human body as a vessel for transhumanist, embodied sound. They extend the body with cyborg-like augmentations, such as an intraoral microphone speaker feedback system, and an amplified laptop instrument, built for visceral intensity and hyperkinetic performance.
Lu’s performances unfold as choreographed, ritual-inflected improvisations that bring Chinese lineages into conversation with contemporary noise and embodied technology. Their work moves through themes of body dysmorphia, queerness, and spirituality that draws audiences into a physical kind of listening where sound feels intimate, unstable, and sometimes unsettling.
As a collaborative musician/improviser, Lu makes up half of the Chinese-American experimental electronic act Warp Duo with fellow improviser and violinist Scott Li, which fuses deeply emotional and melodic music with maximalist sound design. Lu has also performed extensively across the country with artists such as Ka Baird, Zoh Amba, Dennis Sullivan, BAKUDI SCREAM, DoYeon Kim, Julian Pujols Quall, Camilo Angeles, Shannon Yu, Laura Cocks, Drew Wesely, etc
A Second Prize winner of the International Electronic Music Competition (2023), Lu’s work has been presented internationally at venues and festivals including MATA Festival, Send + Receive, High Zero, IRCAM Forum, Kallelse Festival, and e-flux. They have received commissions from TAK Ensemble, Popebama, Luke Helker, and Ensemble Decipher, and support including an EY Emergent Futures Fellowship and an incubator member at NEW INC. Lu has been an artist-in-residence at ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks TIP, and ElektronmusikStudion Stockholm, and is a lecturer in music at the University of Pennsylvania. They have also presented guest lectures, workshops, and performances at institutions including NYU, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University CCRMA, Princeton University, USC, Oberlin Conservatory, and Parsons School of Design.
Composer/Sound Artist/Lighting Designer
Tianyu Zou is a composer and multimedia artist whose practice merges experimental electronic music, moving image, and socio-cultural inquiry through immersive audiovisual experimentation. His work integrates instrumental virtuosity, electronics, visuals, and lighting, using forms reminiscent of urban memes to explore the complex relationship between the internet and contemporary society. His projects have been presented at festivals and institutions, including GMEM (FR), EMS (SE), Liminal/Crossroads (AT), Musikfestival Bern (CH), MIXTUR (SP), Kalvfestivalen (SE), IRCAM, C-Lab (TW), Rümlingen (CH), and Lucerne Festival. He has been awarded several grants from the Nicati de-Luze Foundation and Ernst von Siemens Grants.
Composer/Director/Multi-media Artist
Chen Shuhe Yue (Yue Chen) is a composer, soprano, and interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Her practice combines instrumental composition, theater, movement, and sound installation into immersive creations that interlace acoustic, electroacoustic, and multimedia dimensions. Her music explores social themes related to mental health, illness, and marginalized experience through an objective yet empathetic sonic language that invites reflection and accessibility. With a strong dramaturgical sensibility, she expands the expressive scope of music by shaping sound into spatial and sensory experiences.
Yue’s compositions have been performed internationally by ensembles such as JACK Quartet, PHACE Ensemble, Windscape, and ICE, and featured at major festivals including the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau (France), MultiPhonics Festival (Germany), Mixtur Festival (Spain), Aranya Theater Festival (China), the Vienna Summer Music Festival (Austria), and the Avignon Festival (France). Her works have received recognition, including the Ravel Composition Prize and the Manhattan String Quartet Prize.
As a classically trained soprano, Yue has performed in operas such as Così fan tutte, The Magic Flute, and La Bohème, and continues to explore contemporary and experimental performance through collaborations that integrate voice, gesture, and live electronics.
Yue holds a Bachelor’s degree in Opera Acting from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing and a Master’s degree in Composition from the Mannes School of Music. She is currently a Doctoral Fellow in Composition at the Manhattan School of Music.
In 2023, Yue co-founded Chaospace, a nonprofit artist organization based in New York, where she serves as artistic director and curates the DramaEtMusica Performance Series, which focuses on cross-disciplinary collaboration and the creation of new performance works.
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