Artist and composer Valérie Vivancos, aka Ocean Viva Silver, spent 11 years navigating the Anglo-Saxon artistic and musical scene (Liverpool, Manchester, London, San Francisco, NYC) before settling in Paris in 2002. Her practice revolves around composition, performance scores, situations and writing protocols that intertwine life and fiction and trigger ‘curious’ experiences. She studied fine arts in London and San Francisco (Chelsea, SFAI), English and sociology in Paris (Sorbonne) and was trained in sound arts and electroacoustic composition by Hayley Newman, Laetitia Sonami, Christian Zanési and Robert Hampson.

She is co-founder of projects focused on experimental music/sound and art, including the duo OttoannA and the publishing house Double Entendre (with Rodolphe Alexis), and often collaborates with other artists (Florence Jou, Kamilya Jubran, Soizic Lebrat, Limpe Fuchs, Claire Filmon, Jos Smolders, Carl Stone, Simon Whetham etc.).

She has worked as a freelancer with various organisations linked to sound creation (InaGRM, Collectif MU, Fair_Play network). She has written and translated poetic, literary and theoretical texts in French and English (Centre Pompidou, Editions Mego, Ina-GRM, Robot Records, MU asso, Shelter Press, Revue & Corrigée, Editions Jou, Rencontres d'Arles).

She has led sound art workshops in Brazil, invited people to sleep in an underground bunker in Denmark, spatialised music in a planetarium and on a boat sailing on the Danube, improvised a performance with sound objects in Hong Kong, created soundtracks for answering machines and surveillance cameras, and received commissions for the creation of artistic, electroacoustic and radio pieces.

Her work has been featured in international art centres (Palais de Tokyo, Gaîté Lyrique, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Overgaden gallery, ICA, Barbican Centre, Mudam, Parque das Ruinas, Black Box Theater HK, Musée Réattu, etc.); music venues and festivals (Présences Électronique, Présences, Poitiers Planétarium, European Sound Delta, Futura, The Dark Outside, Nuit Blanche, Sonic Dreams, JRM, Le Mans Sonore, Ecotone, GMEA, La Station, Oscillation, Q-O2, Cité de la Musique de Marseille, etc.) as well as on radio broadcasts (France Culture, France Musique, Rte Lyric, Phaune, Radia Network, Kunstradio, Resonance FM, Jet FM, Panik, RTBF, Tesla FM, πnode, etc.), notably hosted by Kate Carr, Kassel Jaeger, Anne Montaron, Thomas Baumgartner, etc.

She has received institutional awards, residencies and commissions (GRM, Radio France, France Musique, France Culture, Scam, Gulliver, RTBF, EMS, SCRIME, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Abbaye de Noirlac).

She has released seven albums: Echolalia (Mare/Moto 2014) - The Sleep In Opera (The Sublunar Society 2016) - Îpe (Industrial Coast 2020) - trommeln dialogue electric, with Limpe Fuchs (Tsuku Boshi 2022) - Ħal Saflieni (Tsuku Boshi 2022) - Payvagues, with Florence Jou, (Tsuku Boshi 2023) - Xixi, with Florence Jou, (Mare/Moto 2025).

In 2025, she became the first artist to receive a commission to compose music for the towers of Notre Dame de Paris (permanent installation).

Improvisation électronique et électroacoustique, drones, voix, objets sonorisés