樂凡

Van Lefan

Van Lefan

樂凡

folk, alternative, pop

樂凡 (Van Lefan) 是一位來自台灣、現居加拿大溫哥華的跨領域藝術家,其創作涵蓋聲音、舞蹈、北少林功夫、劇場與視覺藝術。她透過聲音、吉他與長笛,在民謠、流行與實驗聲響之間遊走,創作出的歌曲既是對個人與集體經驗的探問,也是探詢日常生活中魔幻時刻與生命意義的反思,以及對集體解放的祈禱。

她的首張專輯《What Holds Us Together?》(2022)是一段音樂旅程,融合民謠、流行、實驗音景與詩句,織就出關於祖源、身份認同、生態崇敬與社會正義的聲音集錦。第二張專輯《Unsent Letters: To Whom It May Concern》將於 2025 年 2 月發行。

近年來,樂凡曾於溫哥華台灣文化節(TAIWANfest)、Jade Music Fest、Vines 藝術節、溫哥華壁畫節等演出,並於 2024 年 4 月與音樂人百城(Tennyson King)一同於台灣展開聯合巡演。她同時也從事劇場音效設計,並擔任 Lobe 空間聲音工作室的 4DSOUND 技術師。

Van Lefan樂凡 is a Taiwanese multidisciplinary artist with practices in music, sound art, visual media, written works, theatre, northern Shaolin kung fu, dance, and aerial hoop.

Composing using field recordings, feedback, self made instruments, electronics, voice, and acoustic instruments, her work continues to explore new ways interweaving mediums can create immersive spaces for healing, processing emotions, ideas, and reflection on personal and collective experiences.

Her works include debut album “What Holds Us Together?” (2022), SFU Theatre Production of Susanna Fournier’s “next time i die” (2022), “Space is Made” (2023, in Residency with Media Arts Committee), “Julius Caesar” at Bard on the Beach (2023, Assistant Sound Design), and completed technician apprenticeship at Lobe 4DSOUND Spatial Sound Studio in summer 2023.

Lefan is currently developing “Unsent Letters: To Whom It May Concern “, an experimental play/installation, intimately diving into the cyclical nature of interpersonal relationships, attachment patterns, memories, and the subconscious.

Band Member: Jean-Sébastien Le Doujet

"As a Taiwanese artist with my first languages being Mandarin and Taiwanese, using these languages in my work are an extremely important part of my expression and connection to who I am. My first experiences singing have been in those languages, I have so many childhood memories of singing with my family, and when I sing those songs now, it brings me back home. This experience seems to be shared amongst many people of the diaspora. There's been many instances when I perform in these languages, people from Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, come up to me afterwards expressing how rare and special it is for them to hear these songs."
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