Lo Kristenson is a sound artist / composer that creates music where expressions of resistance, harshness and clumsiness co-exist with fragile delicacy and vulnerability. She is interested in creating structures of resistance and tension that enable the vulnerabilities of human strive and musical struggle to be visible and heard in her music.

For Lo, the act of listening is intimately tied to the physical experience of being present with others. 

Her work’s been presented at established platforms such as the art gallery Artipelag, the festivals Sound of Stockholm, Borealis (NO) and KLANG festival (DK).

Kristenson has collaborated with Damkapellet, a musician collective that highlights and performs music by composers who define themselves as women or transgender, from all eras. Together with the Norwegian duo Vilde & Inga, and violist Tove Bagge she has developed methods for approaching composition and collaboration from a non-hierarchical relationship between composer and musician.

Alongside Marta Forsberg, she co-founded Konstmusiksystrar, an organization dedicated to promoting gender equality in the Swedish music scene.

Kristenson is a 2018 graduate of the Master’s Programme in Composition from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, during which she developed a particular interest in the ways collective musical practices can be organized and facilitated.