Victoria Cheong aka New Chance is a Toronto-based composer, producer and vocalist.  As an active collaborator in Toronto's avant music and contemporary dance scenes, as well as a practicing astrologer, Cheong brings a wide array of influences to her artistic work. Her music incorporates both acoustic and electronic instrumentation, informed by studio experimentation, divination and embodiment. Central to her output is an interest in the way experience unfolds in time, and an insistence on the value of sensual and emotional aesthetics as modes that draw us toward meaning. 

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New Chance has performed in art venues, concert halls, dance clubs and public spaces. Her work in music also includes DJing, remixing and a long time collaborative practice in contemporary dance.

 

Recent projects include composing for Seth Scriver's feature length animation, Endless Cookie, producing with Picastro’s Liz Hysen and musical collaboration with reggae legend Willi Williams. She sings backup with Chandra (reviving her post-punk classic album, Transportation) and with Jennifer Castle.

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She has played shows with Elysia Crampton, Inga Copeland, DJ Haram, Tyondai Braxton, Ami Dang,  Joni Void, Pelada, Bernice, FIN, Petra Glynt, Special Costello and many more. She is a former member of The Deeep (Not Not Fun, 100% Silk),  HVYWTR, and the duo Nice Hands with poet-dancer Aisha Sasha John. 

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She released her debut EP, It Says New Chance on Bedroomer in 2018, Her EP Hardly Working was released on her own imprint (AND/AND) in 2019. 

Her LP Real Time and companion remix album Real Time Remixed were released with We Are Time in 2021. In 2023 New Chance released an art edition mantra record, Peaceful Mind (Personal Records). Her most recent release is the full-length concept record, A Rock Unsteady (2025 -We Are Time).