LinhHafornow is the stage name of Linh Hà, a Hanoian independent art practitioner focusing on sound art, live performing, and sonic storytelling. Using sounds and music, she wants to create a sonic space to unearth her own way to storytelling where sonic narratives play a very important role. Linh Hà’s approach to music is personal, honest, and visceral. In her work, listeners can find layers drawn from traditional Vietnamese vocal techniques among others, analog synthesizers, and various samples. All these elements are combined to create an intimate but also confrontative listening experience. Her interests at the present are nature/human | human/human (belongingness, collective memory) | non-human/human relations & the present.

Linh Hà’s most recent projects have focused on live improvisation (CHẠM with harpist Esther Swift, 2022), healing (SILHOUETTE with visual artist Heather Lander, 2021) and archiving (personal) histories of East Germany and Vietnam (#dchmvrbndgcnnctn with producer AGF, 2021). Her music/voice was featured in Má Sài Gòn – a movie that explores humanity’s universal desire for love, acceptance, connection, and belonging through an LGBTQ+ lens. Linh Hà hopes to raise more awareness about the culture of listening – especially in the context of modern Vietnamese society.

Her work has been presented at biennale Sonica 2022 (Glasgow), Cryptic Presents 2020 (Glasgow), Blind Signal 2019 (Berlin), LUCfest 2018 (Taiwan), FAMLAB x Seaphony 2019 (Vietnam), Jai Thep 2018, 2019, 2020 (Thailand), VCCA, Heritage Space (Vietnam). Her projects have received support from the Goethe Institut, the British Council, Cryptic (Glasgow), FAMLAB, Phu Sa Lab, VCCA, and Blind Signal (Berlin). She also writes and performs music with the live electronic project Tiny Giant, with whom she has performed in Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, Germany, Belgium, and Australia. When she’s not making music, you can find her teaching German and Vietnamese or organizing events focusing on live / electronic music in Central Vietnam.