Cristina Lord (she/her)

Cristina Lord is a Los Angeles-based composer, electronic musician, pianist, and educator. As a composer, she is particularly interested in interdisciplinary collaboration with other art mediums such as dance, video art, and theatre. Additionally, she is passionate about the intersection between different genres of music, more generally in the crossover between popular and experimental styles of music. Her work has been performed by Experiments in Opera, loadbang, HOCKET, c3LA, Neave Trio, Friction Quartet, the Southern California Brass Consortium, and New Century Voices, among others. She has participated and been featured in festivals and institutes such as the Hear Now Music Festival, New Music Gathering, Oh My Ears, soundpedro, Longy’s Divergent Studio, Westben, and the Splice Institute. Cristina is co-founder of the Los Angeles Electroacoustic Ensemble, a laptop quartet specializing in the performance of live electronic chamber music. She also produces indie electronic music under the moniker Universed. Besides writing, Cristina is active in the Los Angeles arts community as associate director of People Inside Electronics, a new music collective devoted to the performance and promotion of live electroacoustic music. As an educator, she teaches classes related to music technology, musicianship, and theory at Fullerton College in addition to private lessons.