Christina Wheeler

Christina Wheeler is a composer, musician, and multimedia artist whose practice explores electronics and technology, blending composed and improvised music from voice, autoharp, Theremini, QChord, mbira, glass armonica, and kora. Christina has worked with David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Laraaji, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Nicole Mitchell, Chris Abrahams, Dudù Kouate. Commissions include Radialsystem, HKW, Bang on a Can, Märzmusik, CTM Festivals. Releases include That Was Then, This Is Now, and Songs of S + D.

The Magical Garden is a five-part performance/generative installation project presented in publicly accessible gardens, which explores the crossover between “magic” as derived from ancestral Fang tribe culture, familial Afro-Diasporal gris-gris, and the unexpected, transportive effect of generative technology, as expressed through spatialized audio, video, and LED lights. Five psychedelic animals trapped in a mythical garden join to find freedom in this fantasy allegory for all-ages audiences.