Bio:
Lemon Guo is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and vocalist from the southeastern coast of China. Drawn to the visceral and evocative nature of the voice, she creates voice-based performances and installations that explore things that haunt her and wouldn’t leave her alone. Lemon has performed and exhibited her works internationally, in places such as Sundance Film Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Rubin Museum of Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Fridman Gallery, Ambient Church, 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center, EcoSono Festival of Environmental Music and Sound Art, New Interface for Musical Expression, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (US), BBC Radio 3 (UK), International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Netherlands), International Computer Music Conference (Korea), Chronus Arts Center, and Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (China). With a background in Chinese folk music and social psychology, Lemon holds an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University, BA in composition from the University of Virginia, and is currently a DMA student in composition at Stanford University.
Lemon has held various residencies including the Headlands Center for the Arts (US), Making Tracks (UK), and Montez Press Radio (US/Germany). Her work was published by the Computer Music Journal of the MIT Press. Her compositions and sound designs can be heard on the Digital Now series of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Far Flung podcast series of the Ted Foundation. Lemon produced music for Yi Tang’s short film All the Crows in the World, which won Palme d’Or at Festival de Cannes 2021 and Grand Jury Award at SXSW 2022.
As a collaborator, Lemon and multidisciplinary artist Mengtai Zhang’s 2021 VR documentary Diagnosia premiered at the Immersive Non-Fiction Competition at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the New Frontier section at Sundance Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, and ACM Siggraph. Diagnosia was also named a Webby Award honoree, won two Telly Awards, and won the Best Chinese Work at Sandbox Immersive Festival (China). Lemon’s duo work with musician and scholar Daniel Gouly was awarded an Arts Council England grant. They created original music and sound design for artist He Kunlin’s video installation, which premiered at the 2021 Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
Lemon is half of Southeast of Rain, an experimental duo founded with San Francisco-based composer and pipa player Sophia Shen. Their recently released debut album “42 Days” was hailed as “a collaborative gem and a highlight among this year’s new releases... inspires a sort of breathless introspection–a meditation on the perception of time and space in sound.” (I Care If You Listen)
Contact Info:
Email: lemonguomusic@gmail.com