Viola Yip is an experimental composer, performer, improviser, sound artist and instrument builder from Hong Kong.

Her instruments and sound performances have been presented in music festivals and venues such as Issue Project Room (NYC), The New School (NYC), Look and Listen Festival (NYC), DiMenna Center (NYC), Center for New Music (SF), Constellation (Chicago), Cycling ‘74 Expo, Hong Kong Arts Center (HK), Klex Festival (Kuala Lumpur), Sonic Arts Research Center at Queen's University Belfast (UK), QO-2 (Brussels), Currents/ Festival für aktuelle Tiefkultur (Köln), Kunst Station Sankt Peter (Köln), A L’arme! Festival (Berlin), DARA String Festival (Berlin), Seanaps Festival (Leipzig), Festival für Immaterielle Kunst (Hamburg), Pinakothek der Moderne (München) and ZHdK (Zurich).

She has given workshops and artist talks in Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Chicago, Cornell University, Columbia University, The Royal Northern College of Music, Hong Kong Baptist University, City University of Hong Kong and Ars Electronica Hong Kong Garden (HK).

She recently received an Honorary Mention from Giga-Hertz-Preis 2021 at ZKM (Center for Arts and Media) in Karlsruhe, Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta stipendium in Munich as well as an residency at Studios für Elektroakustische Musik, Akademie der Künste Berlin.