Echönymphia is a project by pianist Vivian Li and harpist Coralie Gauthier which began on a blanket strewn with fresh fruit in Montreal’s Champs des Possibles. From this encounter emerged a shared listening experience: that of sounds too often forgotten, discreet melodies, subtle nuances. Navigating between ambient, minimalist, Japanese new age music and field recordings, Echönymphia paints soundscapes of shimmering textures and ethereal colors. The harp and synthesizer, modified with a range of effects pedals, blend the tone and sensitive playing of an acoustic instrument with live electronic sound processing. Guided by structured improvisation, their music evolves intuitively, seeking to reflect natural rhythms, drawing parallels between digital sounds and those that might be heard in a forest, the whistling of the wind, the lingering echo on a lake, or the beating of wings. Each performance thus becomes an attentive drift, a suspended moment where listening opens a portal to the ephemeral world of an augmented nature.