Farewell Phoenix is the experimental music project of Vietnamese-American artist, video animator, writer, composer and synthesist Lynn Nguyen Fister. Lynn has an all-encompassing approach to her practice, forging artforms to often create surreal, sometimes escapist or allegorical experiences, recontextualizing and informing the disciplines through new lenses. She has been creating installations since 2008 using found natural materials both in galleries and private spaces, such as in her home and on her body. In 2016, Lynn started making "abandoned" spaces out of her art, found objects, her home, and since then in gallery spaces. In 2021, Lynn founded Drones in the Garden with Sophie Hull and Patrick Kukucka, alongside Bagatelle Books and Static Age Records in Asheville, NC. DITG is an experimental art collective that hosts events centered on local musicians, writers and plants. They also have done "abandoned" installations for music events--mainly at REVOLVE and at Black Mountain College's {Re}HAPPENING 12 at their historic Lake Eden campus.

In her music project Farewell Phoenix, she often combines layered and processed choral vocals, often sampled with granular and modular synthesis techniques, feedback noise and field recordings. She has completed residencies and also been commissioned to score music. Lynn has led three Drone in the Garden residencies at REVOLVE for her concepts The Abandoned Gallery (2023), The Abandoned Garden Clouds ( January 2025), and Womb, Suspended Garden (June 2025) for a Revolve + DITG curated series of shows featuring performances from Pan American + Michael Grigoni, Benoit Pioulard, Kramer, Motion Sickness of Time Travel and more.

Prior to Farewell Phoenix, Lynn recorded music as Aloonaluna, often on her own now-defunct label Watery Starve Press. This project initially formed as a solo project in 2009. On All Songs Considered, Lars Gotrich from NPR has called her music "full of angelic sounds and fuzzy soundscapes" and alikened her music to the sounds that probably emanates from the ivory tower in the Neverending Story. Pitchfork's The Out Door columnist Grayson Currin reflected on a year of experimental music with: "Lynn Fister's Watery Starve press openly embraced the world's mossy sprawl, wrapping her cassette covers in leaves and feathers, and making music as Aloonaluna that stretched and breathed with atmospheric beauty." Taxidermy of Unicorns "felt like a watershed and one of 2013's prime musical accomplishments." In 2014, Watery Starve Press stopped releasing albums, and in late 2016, she stopped making sounds as Aloonaluna. After this hiatus in music-making, Lynn started exploring the capabilities of modular synthesizers in late 2021, at first manipulating plant bio-feedback for modulation. She just more recently started to record solo work and releasing these works. Her first full-length album as Farewell Phoenix entitled "The Angels in These Fields" was released September 22, 2024 on the boutique imprint Ceremony of Seasons.

She has one split out on Waxing Crescent Records (UK) and has been featured on compilations for Women of Noise and most recently, "Of Landfalls and Wildfires" put out by Ceremony of Seasons and Erototox Decodings. Lynn currently is working on her second full-length album as Farewell Phoenix, processing a Celtic harp through her modular synthesis system.