Gina Lo
Gina Lo is a sound artist, field recordist, and performer based in Berlin. Gina’s work delves into the interconnectedness between environment, ambience, and human / non-human through live performances and spatial sound installations. Using a blend of electroacoustic instrumentation, field recordings, abstract vocals, and custom-designed synthesizers, Gina’s improvisational live sets focus on an ever-evolving sonic experience with an emphasis on attentive listening.
The artist’s connection with nature is strongly linked to her past experiences. She grew up on a subtropical island, and lived most of her adulthood in a state of travel in between East Asia and SouthEast Asia. During these travels the artist resonated particularly with a remote and untouched island in Southern Cambodia. There she would live a very simple off-the-grid life between the jungle and the ocean. In these periods of retreat from urbanized society, Gina would spend months observing the behavior of animals and of the elements of nature, these observations then developed into an aesthetic and experiential basis for the artist’s sonic and spatial research.
Curation
Current - Curator at Care Of Editions label
Film
06.2023 Location sound mixing and boom for On Common Ground by Michelle Deignan,
screened at Tromso International Film Festival 2024
Commissioned project
Mensch, Musik! #3 Hotspot Earth, RSB 2022 - “Crickets and Waves” and ” Feuer” spatial compositions
Research and residency
21.07.2022 - 07.12.2022 KGNM - Containerklang #17 - residency for modular synthesizer artists
Exhibition (selection)
22.04.2022 Crickets and Waves and Feuer, octaphonic audio installations, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg rbb, DE
26.12.2021 Intuitive Water, Interactive audio Installation, Rong Place, Puglia, IT
15.10.2021 Sonic Sauna Spatial audio installation, Signals Festival, Funkhaus Berlin, DE
Performance & Concert (selection)
03.02.2024 - ecoSYNTH, Vorspiel 2024 x CTM, Berlin, DE
11.01.2024 - XXXSTER, Berlin, DE
27.12.2023 - Chromatic Wednesday, Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
14.10.2023 - Berlin Modular, Acud Macht Neu, Berlin, DE
11.05.2023 - Superbooth, Berlin
14.12.2022 - Al Berlin
07.12.2022 - Containerklang #17, arttheater, Köln, DE
27.11.2022 - Containerklang #17, Essen, DE
26.10.2022 - Petersburg Art Space, Berlin, DE
08.09.2022 - BMS19, Berlin Modular Society, Fizroy, Berlin, DE
17.08.2022 - Keinzeit drone night, Al Berlin, DE (concert +curation)
14.08.2022 - Traumburg Festival, Gommern, DE
05.08.2022 - Edlfau label night, Schrippe Hawaii, Berlin, DE
21.07.2022 - Containerklang #17, arttheater, Köln, DE
25.06.2022 - Automaton Lab, Wasserspeicher, Berlin, DE
26.05.2022 - EGÆL, villa kuriosum, Berlin, DE
03.05.2022 - Baby Satan Lab, 8mm bar, Berlin, DE
12.12.2021 - The Theatre of Reverie label night, Sankt Studio, Berlin, DE
10.12.2021 - RAUSCH (drone night) - backsteinboot, Berlin DE (concert)
15.10.2021 - Signals Festival, Funkhaus Berlin, DE
Composition
Spring 2022 - Film Score for LoNSA, Land of Perish collective
16.02.2021 - Composition for Haute Couture Mario Duyuchen 2022 S/S Fashion Show, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Sound work
25.01.2024 RDC (Unexplained Sounds Group, digital)
23.02.2023 Waning Gibbous (Care of Editions, single release, digital)
12.07.2022 live set 019 (Melantonia, digital)
19.05.2022 The Sound I Wanna Make Has No Letters In English 2 (self release)
14.08.2020 The Sound I Wanna Make Has No Letters In English (self release)
Education
2019 - 2022 B.A. Degree in Electronic Music Production and Performance Arts at Catalyst Berlin, DE
2011 - 2015 B.A. Degree in Fashion Design at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
2008 - 2011 Graphic Design & Advertisement Design in Fu-Hsin Trade and Arts School