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On Friday, November 21st, 2025 8pm, ISSUE Harvestworks’ Technology Immersion Program (TIP) presented the culminating commission from Qiujiang Levi Lu in collaboration with Issue Project Room. Joined by Scott Congyu Li, Warp Duo performed "The Ever-Reaching, Luminescent Horizon" at The Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center in Downtown Brooklyn.
沿光苍穹 / The Ever-Reaching, Luminescent Horizon is the latest augmented operatic work by Warp Duo (Qiujiang Levi Lu & Scott Congyu Li), which brings together violin, voice, prepared guitar, and live electronics in a symphonic ritual of grief, love, and resistance. Armed with augmented instruments—joystick-modified systems, feedback-driven brass instruments, synthesizers, amplified violin, voice, and wine glass; even the performers’ own amplified bodies—the duo navigates a throughline of light, slipping between searing distortion and fragile lullabies. Rooted in the duo’s shared reality as queer Chinese Americans, their performance unfolds as catharsis, blending beat-based electronic music, noise, folk, classical, and performance art in a spiritual voyage that extends beyond the stage. Improvisations mix with dense compositions, blurring violence and a fierce tenderness. With a musical language at once intimate and monumental, the duo honors loss, celebrates resilience, and imagines new, liberatory futures for humanity beyond the horizon.
Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江) is a NYC-based performance artist, experimental musician, composer, and educator. Their work transforms the body into a sonic object through interactions with movements and audio technology, exploring identity, sound, and space. Lu designs customized feedback systems with cyborg-like body augmentations inspired by Objectophilia/animism. These include special microphones, speakers placed within bodily orifices, and an augmented amplified laptop. Their resulting performances consist of choreographed, ritualistic improvisations building upon ancient Chinese drumming traditions to manifest body dysmorphia, sexuality, spirituality, and mortality. As the second-prize winner of the International Electronic Music Competition 2023, their works have been featured internationally, including MATA Festival, High Zero Festival, The Poetry Project, E-Flux, IRCAM Forum, and Center for Performance Research. Lu has also been an artist-in-residence at ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks TIP, Reforesters Laboratory, and Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm. Lu is currently a lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.
Scott Congyu Li (李淙禹) is a NYC-based classically trained violinist, composer, performer, improviser, filmmaker, recording engineer, and sound artist blending the Romantic chamber music tradition with emotive experimental electronic music. Li’s performances and compositions fuse modular synthesis, live processing, fixed media, film, photography, dance, and prose with elements of classical chamber music to “create a simultaneous understanding of The Beautiful and The Sublime, while exhibiting unparalleled emotional induction.” (The Crossfader, 2019) Li is an explorer of haunting and ethereal sounds of wildly different styles, and a collaborator of a diverse group of musicians, filmmakers, visual artists, writers, and dancers. Collaborations have included premieres of large-scale, multi-movement works at New World Symphony’s BLUE Project series in 2022, The University of Michigan’s Dance Department alongside Vim Vigor Dance, as well as with the Pathos Percussion Trio. Li has performed at numerous established venues across the country, including the New World Symphony Center in Miami, REDCAT, the DiMenna Center, the Jazz Gallery in NYC, Rhizome DC, and Ottobar.
Warp Duo is the duo project of Qiujiang Levi Lu and Scott Congyu Li, utilizing violin, voice, guitar, and live electronics to achieve profound emotional catharsis. Wails, visceral violin screeches, and digital distortion weave their way into ethereal, reverberant soundscapes and melancholy melodies inspired by Chinese folk lullabies. The juxtaposition of orally composed songs with free improvisations tells an aural story of love, grief, fragility, intimacy, and strength. The duo explores their shared queer Chinese experience through a familial bond that ultimately transcends music and cherishes, above all, human connection.
On Friday, November 21st, 2025 8pm, ISSUE Harvestworks’ Technology Immersion Program (TIP) presented the culminating commission from Qiujiang Levi Lu in collaboration with Issue Project Room. Joined by Scott Congyu Li, Warp Duo performed "The Ever-Reaching, Luminescent Horizon" at The Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center in Downtown Brooklyn.
沿光苍穹 / The Ever-Reaching, Luminescent Horizon is the latest augmented operatic work by Warp Duo (Qiujiang Levi Lu & Scott Congyu Li), which brings together violin, voice, prepared guitar, and live electronics in a symphonic ritual of grief, love, and resistance. Armed with augmented instruments—joystick-modified systems, feedback-driven brass instruments, synthesizers, amplified violin, voice, and wine glass; even the performers’ own amplified bodies—the duo navigates a throughline of light, slipping between searing distortion and fragile lullabies. Rooted in the duo’s shared reality as queer Chinese Americans, their performance unfolds as catharsis, blending beat-based electronic music, noise, folk, classical, and performance art in a spiritual voyage that extends beyond the stage. Improvisations mix with dense compositions, blurring violence and a fierce tenderness. With a musical language at once intimate and monumental, the duo honors loss, celebrates resilience, and imagines new, liberatory futures for humanity beyond the horizon.
Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江) is a NYC-based performance artist, experimental musician, composer, and educator. Their work transforms the body into a sonic object through interactions with movements and audio technology, exploring identity, sound, and space. Lu designs customized feedback systems with cyborg-like body augmentations inspired by Objectophilia/animism. These include special microphones, speakers placed within bodily orifices, and an augmented amplified laptop. Their resulting performances consist of choreographed, ritualistic improvisations building upon ancient Chinese drumming traditions to manifest body dysmorphia, sexuality, spirituality, and mortality. As the second-prize winner of the International Electronic Music Competition 2023, their works have been featured internationally, including MATA Festival, High Zero Festival, The Poetry Project, E-Flux, IRCAM Forum, and Center for Performance Research. Lu has also been an artist-in-residence at ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks TIP, Reforesters Laboratory, and Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm. Lu is currently a lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.
Scott Congyu Li (李淙禹) is a NYC-based classically trained violinist, composer, performer, improviser, filmmaker, recording engineer, and sound artist blending the Romantic chamber music tradition with emotive experimental electronic music. Li’s performances and compositions fuse modular synthesis, live processing, fixed media, film, photography, dance, and prose with elements of classical chamber music to “create a simultaneous understanding of The Beautiful and The Sublime, while exhibiting unparalleled emotional induction.” (The Crossfader, 2019) Li is an explorer of haunting and ethereal sounds of wildly different styles, and a collaborator of a diverse group of musicians, filmmakers, visual artists, writers, and dancers. Collaborations have included premieres of large-scale, multi-movement works at New World Symphony’s BLUE Project series in 2022, The University of Michigan’s Dance Department alongside Vim Vigor Dance, as well as with the Pathos Percussion Trio. Li has performed at numerous established venues across the country, including the New World Symphony Center in Miami, REDCAT, the DiMenna Center, the Jazz Gallery in NYC, Rhizome DC, and Ottobar.
Warp Duo is the duo project of Qiujiang Levi Lu and Scott Congyu Li, utilizing violin, voice, guitar, and live electronics to achieve profound emotional catharsis. Wails, visceral violin screeches, and digital distortion weave their way into ethereal, reverberant soundscapes and melancholy melodies inspired by Chinese folk lullabies. The juxtaposition of orally composed songs with free improvisations tells an aural story of love, grief, fragility, intimacy, and strength. The duo explores their shared queer Chinese experience through a familial bond that ultimately transcends music and cherishes, above all, human connection.
![The Workings Of Media [art and artists] Fall 2021: An Overview](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d5oI6dyp_S8/mqdefault.jpg "The Workings Of Media [art and artists] Fall 2021: An Overview
The Workings of Media [Art and Artists] is a series of presentations, workshops, open studios and exhibitions to understand social and cultural changes reflected through the lens of art and artists. Curator and director Carol Parkinson has selected these artists because of their use of the new media technology including data sonification and visualization, immersive sound, smell and social networks. The Art and Technology program is a component of our Creative Residency and Sponsored Projects programs and seeks to create a responsive public context for the appreciation of new work and to advance the art’s community and the public’s appreciation of the use of technology in art. Artworks in order of appearance:
Matthew Goodheart: remnants, an immersive sound installation of sonic instruments, found objects to be listened to with bone-conducting headphones (COVID restrictions will apply). Artist Talk October 30, 2021 at 1:30 pm
Dan Joseph: Informed by early minimalism, acoustic ecology, deep listening and ambient music, Periodicity Piece #10 will combine a diverse collection of sounds into a slowly changing sonic ecosystem. A Harvestworks Commission for our Immersive Room on Governors Island. Opens October 2, 2021. Performance Oct. 30, 2021 at 3 pm.
Sofy Yuditskaya: The Secret Pope is a video homage to Pope Joan, considered fictional in todays society, but a beloved story during the middle ages of a female pope that rose through the ranks of Christianity with her wit and skill. Pope Joan dressed in men’s clothes, but was discovered as a woman when she became pregnant. After she was discovered body examinations practices were put in place so that no women could rise to power in Christianity ever again. Gaze upon her as into a mirror, the Secret Pope is all of us. Performance October 31, 2021 at 2:30 pm
Jocelyn Ho: An installation and performance series of compositions for Women’s Labor, a feminist project that uses embedded technologies to transform old domestic tools into new musical instruments, to address gender inequality in domestic labor division and challenge persistent gendered social norms. Performance Sept. 18, 2021
George Moraitis: AttoWatt is an installation made up of long vertical metal bars and neon tubes. Light and sound travel from rung to rung simultaneously all around the installation with fast velocity creating various forms made of electricity within space. Performance October 23, 2021
Mike Bullock: Ephemerospheres, an installation of electroacoustic audio works for his custom wave field synthesis array. Compositions by Mike Bullock, Seth Cluett and LInda Gail Aubry. MIke Bullock is a composer and intermedia artist focused on environmental sound recording. Artist Talk Sept. 11, 2021.
LadyK : Inspired by bioluminescent marine organisms and digital network traffic, Luciferins is an interactive installation. Viewers walk through awakening graphical portals and field recordings, which open to depict invisible network traffic of websites. LadyK’s practice encompasses responsive systems exploring how our collective digital experiences are shaping our future. Artist Talk Sept. 11, 2021.
Performances
Liz Gerring Company with Michael Schumacher presents Nolan Park, a sound and movement installation. PROGRAM: 60 min. Program Times: noon, 2 pm & 4 pm. Performance Sept. 25, 2021 with Liz Gerring Dance Company.
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