Christina Wheeler is a multi-instrumentalist, multi-media, vocalist and electronic performance artist, based in Los Angeles, USA. Wheeler’s musical ventures have forayed into techno, house, 2-step, drum and bass, breakbeat, soul, dance hall, dub, world music, ambient, free jazz and improvisational forms. She blends a collection of songs and improvised electronic music from vocals, sampler, theremin, QChord, autoharp and Array mbira. Within her live solo electronic performances, she combines an organic string of electronic tendencies, processed vocals and vocal loops, hand-triggered sampler playing, processed four-octave electric mbira, processed electric autoharp, processed Q-Chord and theremin, software instruments, and live effects processing.
Wheeler has performed and recorded with a variety of different artists, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Chaka Khan, John Cale, Laraaji, Roscoe Mitchell, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Matana Roberts, Marc Ribot, Murcof, and ‘A Guy Called Gerald’. Wheeler’s work with David Byrne of Talking Heads included international tours and appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and PBS’s Sessions at West 54th Street. MTV’s AMP have also featured her music.
Christina is currently working on two albums, Songs of S + D and Tres Es un Número Mágico: Kaleidoscopic Triptychs, as well as some solo song-cycle series, a collection of solo instrumental improvisational compositions, ‘The Magical Garden’, an ensemble-based multi-media performance/installation project, another immersive multimedia performance project, named ‘The Totality of Blackness Trilogy’, and collaborations with Nicole Mitchell, Laraaji, Vernon Reid, Hprizm/Priest, Greg Tate, and Satch Hoyt.