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Upcoming shows

2026 Unfolding Grounds x Djerassi [August 16], CA, USA

Music releases

2024
NONAGE [Métron Records. Digital, CD, vinyl]

2023
Secondary Self [LtR Records. Digital & cassette]

2022
之 / OF [Métron Records. Digital & vinyl]

Specimen [Cafe OTO / Takuroku. Digital]

2021
UNABLED FORM 不能之像 [LtR Records. Digital & vinyl

2024
Cacophony [Longform Editions. Digital]

2020
0:00 [Focused Silence. Digital & cassette]

Mirror Arcana [Melissa Houpert. Digital]

Common Ground Vol. 2 [Safe Ground Recs. Digital, cassette]

Spring Snow [Mirae Art. Digital, Vinyl]

Anthology of Experimental Music from China

[Unexplained Sounds Group. Digital, CD]

HKH Cryosphere [Chinabot. Digital]

The Wire Tapper #49 [The Wire. Digital, CD]

Mind The Gap #137 [Gonzo Circus. Digital, CD]

Compositions

2025
Prayers for a Hungry Ghost (Play) – Original Score & Sound Design – Barbican Centre [UK]

Venus 2.0 (Play) – Original Music – Impermanence Dance Theatre, National Tour [UK]

The Circle Unbound [Dance Commission] – Original Score – Hidden Door Festival [UK]

2024
Prayers for a Hungry Ghost (Play) – Original Score & Sound Design – Barbican Centre [UK]

Venus (Play) – Original Score & Sound Design – Impermanence Dance Theatre, National Tour [UK]

Planting Connections (Dance) – Original Music – Kyle Abraham dance company, Lincoln Centre [US]

2023
At Broken Bridge (Play) – Original Score & Sound Design – Camden People’s Theatre

2021
感染、紧急状态和⻉多芬 (Play) – Original Score & Sound Design – OCAT Shenzhen [CN]

2024
Wet Room (Short film) – Original Score – Dir. Iris Li

Orpheus (Short film) – Original Score – Dir. Malaika Shostakovich

2025
Axel Arigato – Original Music – Slow Runner Campaign

Shows & performances

Li Yilei + Magda Drozd, Raleigh Chapel [London, UK]

Li Yilei + Auntie Flo, Plants Can Dance, Number90Hideout [London, UK]

Li Yilei + Li Song + Yang Yu-Chiao, Cafe OTO [London, UK]

under45dB, Eat the Sunshine . Down the Sun [London, UK]

1 1 1, Nottingham Contemporary [Nottingham, UK]

Yarmonics Festival (originalprojects;), Hippodrome [Great Yarmouth, UK]

back2back: Archival bodies (playbody), V&A East Storehouse [London, UK]

Maintenant Festival, Rennes Musée des Beaux Arts [Rennes, FR]

Sonic Jam Music Festival - Li Yilei + Manami Kakudo [Xi’An, CN]

Li Yilei + marucoporoporo + CazU-23, K.D Japon [Nagoya, JP]

Meitei + Li Yilei, Ashibeya Imoo Besso [Wakayama, JP]

Li Yilei + Aus + Iu Takahashi, Ennoji 圓能寺 [Tokyo, JP]

Li Yilei + Kazumichi Komatsu, Soto 外 [Kyoto, JP]

You&Me Festival, [Beijing CN]

Ruthin International Art Festival, Ruthin Gaol [Wales, UK]

Creamcake: Is It Cold in the Water, Liquidrom [Berlin, DE]

shedding:::selves (Queer East 2024), Ugly Duck [London, UK]

Boundaries Fest, The Peacock [Sunderland, UK]

Bloomsbury Festival, Pushkin House [London, UK]

Kinkajous & London Contemporary Orchestra, EartH Hackney [London, UK]

Unsafe+Sounds Festival, Zachelfabrik [Vienna, AT]

Tacit Listening, Tai Kwun Contemporary [Hong Kong, HK]

Suzanne Cianni + Li Yilei, King’s Place [London, UK]

Elementi, Walter Chiari Theatre [Cervia, IT]

MICHIKO OGAWA + LI YILEI, Cafe OTO [London, UK]

unspecified unspecified unspecified, Hundred Years Gallery [London, UK]

Housewarming, ESEA Contemporary [Manchester, UK]

The Great Void, MAO Torino [Turin, IT]

Apologies in Advance #16, IKLECTIK [London, UK]

JASON SHARP + SYDNEY SPANN + LI YILEI, Cafe OTO [London, UK]

Sounding Out, IKLECTIK [London, UK]

Nonclassical: Listening to Place, Barbican Centre Hall [London, UK]

The Sixth Tone Glow Show, Virtual

Arnaya Arts Festival, Arnaya Arts Centre [Arnaya, CN]

Queering Now by Chinese Arts Now, Mimosa House [London, UK]

Receptors with Honey, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art [Beijing, CN]

Noise Quest 3 by Graham Dunning, Virtual

Queering Now by Chinese Arts Now, Rich Mix [London, UK]

Heightened States of Awareness by CRiSAP, IKLECTIK [London, UK]

Scattered Purgatory, The8Immortals, Li Yilei, IKLECTIK [London, UK]

Asia Acoustic Ecology, Hundred Years Gallery [London, UK]

Dronica Festival #10, St Matthias Church [London, UK]

Jessica Kim X Li Yilei, Cafe OTO, [London, UK]

CHINABOT w/Sabiwa, Lafidki, Li Yilei, Jaeho Hwang, Cafe OTO, [London]

Exhibition

‘Living, Rehearsing…’ | Chapter 3: ‘Reverberance’, YDP

Wandering Till The Wind Whispers My Land, Unit1Gallery Workshop

Press

Ondarock [May 18] Li Yilei - Nonage [Peppe Trotta]

Ele-king [Apr 24] Li Yilei NONAGE / 垂髫

Beatburger [Apr 8] Li Yilei: Nonage (Métron Records)

The Fader [Mar 20] Li Yilei recaptures the freedom of childhood through sound [R. Helfand]

Mixmag Asia [Mar 8] Li Yilei shares personal, ambient LP centred around her childhood

[Henry Cooper]

A Closer Listen [Feb 21] Li Yilei - NONAGE [Richard Allen]

Bandcamp [Dec 09] Bandcamp Album of the Day [Ted Davis]

Spool’s Out [Sep 20] Cassette Reviews for September [Daryl Worthington]

The Skinny [Aug 22] Li Yilei - Secondary Self [Joe Creely]

Loud and Quiet [Aug 22] Li Yilei - Secondary Self [Zara Hedderman]

Beats Per Minute [Jun 22] Li Yilei descends into the self with fleeting, perturbing ‘Murmur’

[Chase McMullen]

2021 Ototoy Japan [Sep 21] REVIEWS : 031 ダンス / エレクトロニック(2021年9月) [佐藤 Resident Advisor [Aug 25] Li Yilei - 之 / OF [Michelle Ulor]

Bandcamp [Aug 04] Album of the Day: Li Yilei - 之 / OF [James Gui]

The Wire [Print, Issue 436 June 2020] Unabled Form album review

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2020 Electronic Sound magazine [(Issue 64, April 2020] UNABLED FORM Album Review

Approved : Li Yilei (Andy Malt) | Complete Music Update

DJ Mag [March 2020 Issue] UNABLED FORM Album Review (Tanya Akinola)

The Wire [Print, Issue 436 June 2020] Unabled Form album review

2019 Mind The Gap #137 | GONZO CIRCUS (Belgium)

CLOT Magazine Dronica #10, A Deep Listening Practice (Agata Kik)

Rockerilla Magazine #463 [Italy, March 2019]0:00 Album Review

The Quietus Spool's Out: Cassette Reviews For February (Tristan Bath)

Toneshift These Four Are Cool Oﬀ The Press (TJ Norris)

Felt Hat Reviews 0:00 Album Review (Hubert Heathertoes)

Music You Need to Hear [Jun 3] Li Yilei - Nonage [Rudy Carrera]

Bandcamp [Mar 26] The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, March 2024 [Ted Davis]

Groove [Mar 6] Motherboard: March 2024 [Frank P. Eckert]

Dazed [Feb 29] The only tracks you need to hear from February 2024 [Günseli Yalcinkaya]

A Closer Listen [Feb 21] Weekly #53 [Richard Allen]

AVYSS [Jan 26] 記憶転生、再構築｜Li Yileiがアルバム『NONAGE』を発表

2023 AVYSS [Sep 27] リスニングオルタナティブ｜Li Yileiによるausの「Steps」のリミックスが公開

Wire Magazine (Print Edition) [July] Suzanne Ciani’s oceanic sounds evoke a contemplative

technological sublime [Ilia Rogatchevski]

Stage Talk Magazine [May 4] Review: VENUS at Bristol Old Vic [Bryan J Mason]

2022 Telegraph [Feb 22] Best top classical concerts review February 2022 [Ivan Hewett]\

2021 Mixmag Japan [Dec 30] Mixmag Japan’s Picks: The Best 50 Albums of 2021

Bandcamp [Dec 16] Best of 2021: Future History [Bandcamp Daily Staﬀ]

Bandcamp [Sep 03] The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp Aug 2021 [Arielle Gordon]

The Vinyl Factory [Aug 20] Our 10 favourite new vinyl releases this week [Lazlo Rugoﬀ]

Guardian [Jul 23] An Eclectic Selection of Music from the Arab World, Part 2 - a happy

history of sonic migrations [Ammar Kalia]

AVYSS [Jul 1] 新しい現実の中で生まれた感情｜Li Yileiが新作アルバム『之 / OF』を発表

Visionaire Magazine Eastern Rising Tide: Anaya X Local Landscape Fashion and Art

Festival [Olivier Yu]

The Vinyl Factory [Jan 20] 20 albums to look out for in early 2020

The Wire [Print, Issue 436 June 2020] Unabled Form album review

Mixmag [Mar 5] Six artists you need to check out this month

The Vinyl Factory [Jul 30] The best new albums of 2020 so far

AVYSS [Nov 27] のLi Yileiがデビューアルバム[Unabled Forms]を発表

Resident Advisor [Nov 26] LTR Records details Li Yilei’s debut album, Unabled Forms

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