ABOUT ME

Lulu West (she/her) is a sound and performance artist based in NYC. Currently, she is focused on an audiovisual project that explores how trans and gender non-conforming artists situate their work in rural areas of the Rocky Mountains (where she is from). She also has an electro-acoustic vocal and prepared guitar/bass solo practice merging traditional queer folk melodies with free improvisation. Lulu’s main collaborative projects at the moment consist of a folk/classical guitar duo project entitled Polsky West with collaborator Maya Polsky, a noise rock trio called Duchess, a movement and theater based practice with  movement artist Mack Lawrence, and a free-improv trio called mudmudmud with fellow sound artists astrid hubbard flynn and Deven Carmichael. 

Lulu’s compositional works have been performed by ensembles and individuals such as, The International Contemporary Ensemble, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, The Akropolis Reed Quintet, Kinan Azmeh, Quartetto Indaco, The Playground Ensemble, Russell Greenberg, The Neave Trio, The Akropolis Reed Quintet, The Sequoia Reed Quartet and others. 

Very importantly, Lulu’s main mentors and teachers in her sound related endeavors have been Meredith Monk, Wendy Eisenberg, Jon Deak, Anthony Cheung, Lu Wang, Erik DeLuca, Kristina Warren, Conrad Kehn and Eric Nathan. For her performance work she has studied and worked with Kirsten Johnson, Talley Murphy, Patricia Ybarra and more!

Lulu loves extreme music and performance art. She is a harsh noise, hardcore and power electronic creator as well as a soundscape sculptor. She also performs performance art sets that physically challenge trans bodies.

Lulu is currently a teaching artist for the New York philharmonic’s Very Young Composers Program, Community-Word Project, Young Audiences New York (YANY) and a musician for the Misty Copeland Foundation’s Be Bold program.