Bio

Van Lefan (樂凡) is a Taiwanese interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC, creating immersive works that weave sound, movement, and visual art into socially engaged performances. Blending voice, guitar, flute, and live electronics, her ethereal sound lives between experimental folk and art-pop—offering sonic rituals for reflection, grief, healing, and collective dreaming.

Inspired by protest folk of the 60s and 70s and contemporary genre-blending artists such as Aurora and Sufjan Stevens, Lefan’s work is a space of enchantment and resistance, rooted in ancestral memory, ecological connection, and hope as an active practice.

Her debut album What Holds Us Together? is a multidisciplinary sonic journey combining introspective songwriting, soundscape composition, and poetry to explore ancestry, identity, and ecological reverence. Her latest release, Unsent Letters: To Whom It May Concern (March 2025), deepens this exploration of the personal and political.

Lefan has performed at TaiwanFest, Jade Music Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and on international tours in Taiwan. She also works as a theatre sound designer and as a 4DSOUND technician at Lobe Spatial Sound Studio, crafting immersive, multidimensional listening experiences.