Ocean Viva Silver, whose real name is Valérie Vivancos, is a French artist and composer born in 1971, whose work veers between musique concrète, electronic and ambient.

She grew up between Sète and Montpellier, before leaving France for England, where she trained in the 1990s at the Arden Center in Manchester and Chelsea College in London. In 2004, she began her career in Paris alongside Rodolphe Alexis, with whom she founded the sound review Vibrö (published on CD), as well as the duo OttoannA. Together, they gave some fifty concerts and performances across Europe, and composed a series of pieces which they brought together in 2014 on the album Federated States of Micronesia.
In parallel, she collaborates on the administration of the GRM, works as a translator (notably contributing to the English version of the Traité des objets musicaux by Pierre Schaeffer), while pursuing a solo career that intensified in 2010. Since then, she has authored the albums Echolalia (2014), Sleep in Opera (2016), Îpe (2020) and Ħal Saflieni (2022), and more recently two pieces composed for contemporary dance, Passage (2023, Keiko Abe) and Ubique (2023, Virginie Mielniezuck), not forgetting her collaborations with composers and musicians such as Limpe Fuchs and the Terra Incognitae trio (alongside Kamilya Jubran and Soizic Lebrat).
Since 2016, Ocean Viva Silver has been one of the founders and moderators of the Fair Play network, dedicated to the history and visibility of female composers, sound designers and sound technicians.

Produced and interviewed by Jean-Yves Leloup.

Selected excerpts: 

- Riddle", from the album Echolalia (2014 version)

- "The Sleeping Lady", from the album Ħal Saflieni (Tsuku Boshi, 2022)

- Par le menu", from the album Îpe(Industrial Coast, 2020)

- "Medusa", from the album Echolalia (2014 version)

- "Playing Cards", from the album The Sleep in Opera (2002-2016)

She will be back on stage on Saturday, June 17, 2023 at La Maison de la Poésie in Paris, for Payvaguesa musical and literary concert performed with writer Florence Jou.

Photos © Sophie Couronne
Photos © JRM - Stéphane Gobaut
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