Lo Kristenson is a sound artist / composer that creates music where expressions of resistance, harshness and clumsiness co-exist with fragile delicacy and vulnerability.
Kristenson is a 2018 graduate of the Master’s Programme in Composition from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm where she studied for, among others, Karin Rehnqvist. Her work’s been presented at established platforms such as the art gallery Artipelag, the festivals Sound of Stockholm, Only Connect (NO) and KLANG festival (DK).
In her creative practice and collaboration with other musicians, Kristenson seeks to continuously question norms and to examine how the prevailing structures influence the musical expression. Since 2018, Kristenson has collaborated with Damkapellet, a collective of musicians that highlights and performs music by composers who define themselves as women or transgender, from all times. Lo Kristenson, Norwegian duo Vilde & Inga and violist Tove Bagge are developing methods for approaching composition and collaboration based on a non-hierarchical relationship between composer and musician.