Viola Yip is a composer, performer, sound artist, and instrument builder. She invents new instruments that explore the complex and dynamic relationships between media, materiality, musical bodies, and space through electricity and electronics, thereby introducing a new physicality into electronic music.

Her recent performances have taken place at venues including the Hong Kong Arts Center, the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, Issue Project Room (NYC), Art Club of Chicago, Cycling ’74 Expo, University of Huddersfield, Sonic Arts Research Center at Queen’s University Belfast, QO-2 (Brussels), Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Cologne, Radialsystem Berlin, Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich), and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe.

She recently received an honorable mention at the Giga-Hertz Prize 2021 at ZKM Karlsruhe. She was also a grantee of the Villa Waldberta artist residency in Munich and held a residency at the studios for electroacoustic music of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.