Solo



echoraum, Vienna, Austria, April 2023


Guest Artist, Wheaton College, Massachusetts (US), November 2019
featuring Ora (self-designed octa-touch controller) plus self-designed hardware synth


Eight Paces, audio-video, 2017


Bandcamp

New Suns (2023), ARP 2500 album




filament (2019), solo voice-electronics album released as petra








Collaborative & public



Lavender Lauds (2023), Vienna, Austria
8-channel audio installation in TONSPUR_passage
culminating Fulbright US Scholar Award / Artist Residency at MuseumsQuartier


Aorist at Music Mansion, Providence, RI (US), May 2022
Rachel Devorah (horn, electronics), Kimberly Sutton (cello, electronics), Kristina Warren (piano, electronics)


States of Intuition (2019)
public & interactive installation, Cyprus Museum, Nicosia
culminating Interfaces Residency via European University Cyprus
featuring Death Goddesses, group of self-designed synths; visitors invited to play & orchestrate these synths


Instrument builds (selected)


Abacus · mic clip-mounted controller; demo; For ami with screen score
Dainty · tactile synth
Death Goddessses · synth family; States of Intuition installation, Cyprus, 2018
Exo.Rosie · wearable synth
Matches · tactile synth
Ora · pressure sensor array controller; foot pedal demo; full-body performance





Compositions & projects


filament · voice-electronics album
Almost Completely Lucid · 4 melodicas, 4-channel electronics
the chance that time takes · string quartet
Choose · percussion quartet
Eight Paces · audio-video
For soloist and any number of musicians · vocal soloist, open ensemble
[I] n q u i r y · 8-channel electronics, plus dance, video
Listening Not Guaranteed · laptop ensemble
reverie · 2 pianos, 2 vibraphones, electronics





Reviews


DeGroot, Jillian. "filament: Kristina Warren’s Debut Solo Album as Petra"
Masters, Marc. "The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp: March 2019"
McCorkle, Brian. "Review: petra - filament"
Mulder, Dolf. "PETRA - FILAMENT"
Naylor, Donita. "Providence Loop Fest concludes its second year with offbeat sounds, sights"
O'Hare, Erin. "Composer Kristina Warren channels vocal technology into art"
Reid, Sarah. "New Interfaces, New Sounds: On Electronic Musical Instruments and Controllers"





Writing


"A Sound Artist's Breakdown of Field Recording Over History," by Maria Chavez, writing/conceptual consultation by Kristina Warren. Organised Sound 27(1). DOI link
"'Timbral exploration and collaboration with performers lie at the heart of my musical life': An interview with Judith Shatin." Journal of the International Alliance of Women in Music
"Sound Technologies as Agency-Granting Prosthesis to Vocal Body." Leonardo Music Journal (abstract)
"Notated Control as Composed Liveness in Works for Digitally Extended Voice" Proceedings of TENOR Conference
Show More/ Show Less: Extended Voice, Technology, and Presence. PhD dissertation, University of Virginia (AV documentation)
"Composing and Performing Digital Voice Using Microphone-Centric Gesture and Control Data." Proceedings of ICMC
"Review: Cathy Berberian, Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality" Journal of the International Alliance of Women in Music









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