Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江)

Qiujiang Levi Lu 卢秋江 is an experimental musician, media artist, and composer whose work centers on the body as a site of sonic transformation. Through custom-built electroacoustic instruments, feedback systems, and live performance, Lu explores how sound can become intimate, unstable, and physically charged. Their practice often extends the body through cyborg-like augmentations, including intraoral microphone-speaker systems and amplified laptop instruments, creating performances that merge ritual, noise, and embodied technology.

Drawing from Chinese lineages while engaging themes of queerness, spirituality, and body dysmorphia, Lu creates choreographed, improvisatory works that invite audiences into a deeply physical mode of listening. Their work has been presented internationally at venues and festivals including MATA Festival, Send + Receive, High Zero, IRCAM Forum, Kallelse Festival, and e-flux. Lu has received commissions from TAK Ensemble, Popebama, Luke Helker, and Ensemble Decipher, and support from the EY Emergent Futures Fellowship and NEW INC. They have been artist-in-residence at The New School, ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks TIP, and ElektronmusikStudion Stockholm, and are a lecturer in music at the University of Pennsylvania. Lu holds degrees from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and Stony Brook University.