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Selected Works

A Sliver Gilded Hand Mirror or Whispered Shell: A New Opera by Lula Asplund | first premiere at the International Museum of Surgical Science + forthcoming LP, 2025

Awake in the Marsh, digital single, February, 2025

A Matinee, LP by Lula Asplund and Kyle Bates, Whited Sepulchre Records, 2023

I Saw Freakjoy, LP by Junior Mint Prince (experimental folk duo of Naomi Harrison-Clay & Lula Asplund), Sweetwreath, 2023

Unravels by a Thread, EP & cassette, 2022

Commissions

Performing Alvin Lucier’s “The Duke of York (1976)"for voice and synthesizer(s) with Infrathin (Lula Asplund & Whitney Johnson) commissioned for the Elastic Arts 8th Annual Benefit, 2026

Essence of Clover (2025),for laptop, sine waves, and voice | Refining the Third Ear: a concert series of concerts exploring the third ear and other psychoacoustic phantasmagoria with Bill Dietz, Itsi Ramirez, Bret Schneider, and Mica Schippa.

Option Series (2025), solo performance at Experimental Sound Studio followed by an interview with Dorothy Carlos

Orange Noise (2024), organized by Chris Reeves, Uncle Art Gallery via The Capsule, November 9-December 7, 2024. Archives and material ephemera collide with unique response works, takeaway objects, performances, covers, and all manners of creative research that hinge on the history of “making it new.”

Mills after Mills (2023), The three-day festival gathers a broad cross-section of composers associated with the legendary and now defunct Mills College Music Department for a series of performances driven by questions around legacy, institutional memory, and creative regeneration. Participants were directed towards recordings from the 7000+ item audio archive at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills, and invited to create new works inspired by their finds and/or create new realizations of these historic compositions. Curated and organized by Sally Decker, Brendan Glasson, Briana Marela, Michelle Moeller, Matt Robidoux, and Mitch Stahlmann in collaboration with Laetitia Sonami, who realized a version of this project in her final seminar at Mills.

{Re}HAPPENING 11 (2022) at Black Mountain College - Dance to Anything: Lake Eden, emergent movements in various media, “Dance to Anything” is a dynamic constellation of nineteen visual artists, writers/readers, and movement makers responding to six sound works that were crafted so to be difficult to dance to. Curated by Chris Reeves.


Raven Chacon’s Tremble Staves Movement V: Distributary (2019)(featuring Willie Winant’s percussion ensemble: Jack Van Geem, David Lechuga, Pétur Eggertsson, Lula Asplund, Samuel Regan, Philip Agbayani, Colton Ransom, Elizabeth Hall, Doug Chin, Ayden Bradley, Jimmy Chan, and Caleb Smit).

Selected Performances

2026

21 June - Matt Robidoux, Kim Nucci, and Timothy Russel at Tornlight Records, Chicago, IL

16 May - Performance of Alvin Lucier’s elusive score: “The Duke of York” for voice and synthesizer(s) 1976with Infrathin (Lula Asplund + Whitney Johnson) on the 16-channel CLEAT system for the Elastic Arts Benefit at Elastic in Chicago, IL with the AACM Percussion Ensemble and Sam Lewis/Hunter Diamond 

02 May - Hot on the Heels 20th anniversary show at The California Clipper with Carlos Souffront, Beau Wanzer, Lula Asplund, Bakantez, INFX, Club Drippy, and Love Free Spirit

20 March - Infrathin (Lula Asplund + Whitney Johnson) at the Jade Fountain in Duluth, MN with Bakantez and Alan Sparhawk + Haley Fohr

03 March - Axine M, Lula Apslund, Bakantenz & Dorothy Carlos at The Hideout, Chicago, IL

2025

03 August - Option Series at Experimental Sound Studio Lula Asplund with an interview with Dorothy Carlos, Chicago IL

24 May - Lula Asplund + Whitney Johnson at Epiphany Center for the Arts with Tobacco City, Chicago, IL

16 May - with Callahan & Witscher at The Hideout Chicago, IL

13 May - Various Distractions, Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL

2024

22 October - Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) Multi-Channel Music, UC Berkeley, CA

28 September - Matchess Record Release show feat. Haley Fohr, Lula Asplund, Jenny Pulse, and Alan Sparhawk at Constellation in Chicago, IL with Itsï Ramirez: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/whitney-johnsonhaley-fohrlula-asplundjenny-pulsesparhawk/616231?afflky=ConstellationChicago

09 June —> 20 June - Matchess Hav/Stena release tour feat. Haley Fohr and Lula Asplund

26 January - With Loveslisecrushing, Kyle Bates, and GS70 at Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL

2023

12 December - Empty Bottle with Bloodyminded and Nika, Chicago, IL

09 November - Mills After Mills: Three Days of Crazy Love at The Lab, San Fransisco, CA

23 June - Lula Asplund & GS70 at Drag City Records HQ/Soccer Soccer Club, Chicago IL

24 May - Quadraphonic tape piece at Bond Chapelwith Dorothy Carlos and Kari Watson | Bond Chapel, Chicago, IL

11 April - “Overcasts” intermedia performance with Kyle Bates, CalArts, Santa Clarita, CA

04 April - Opening Support for Kali Malone at Empty Bottle Presents: Beyond The Gate, National Bohemian Cemetery, Chicago IL