Bio

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.