About Scott Li

Scott Congyu Li is a NYC-based classically trained violinist, composer, producer, improviser, filmmaker, recording engineer, and sound artist blending Romantic classical chamber music tradition with emotive experimental electronic music. Hailed by The Crossfader as “one of the pioneers of the next generation’s classical music”, Li’s compositions fuse visceral string playing, modular synthesis, live processing, fixed media, film, photography, dance, and prose with elements of contemporary classical chamber music to “create a simultaneous understanding of The Beautiful and The Sublime, while exhibiting unparalleled emotional induction.” (The Crossfader, 2019) Half of the newly formed “Warp Duo” with electroacoustic improviser Levi Lu, Li is an explorer of haunting and ethereal sounds and a collaborator of a diverse group of musicians, filmmakers, visual artists, poets, and dancers, with work ranging from modern pop production to experimental noise music. Collaborations have included works premiered at New World Symphony’s BLUE Project series in 2022, The University of Michigan’s Dance Department alongside Vim Vigor Dance, as well as upcoming commissions from the Pathos Percussion Trio. Li has performed at numerous established venues across the country, including the New World Symphony Center in Miami, REDCAT, the Jazz Gallery in NYC, Rhizome DC and internationally at A L'ARME! Festival and Cologne Jazz Fest, supporting bassoonist and composer Joy Guidry's Radical Acceptance. Li currently works at the Juilliard School as a full-time recording engineer. 

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