Lara Sarkissian

Lara Sarkissian is a Los Angeles-based electronic musician, interdisciplinary artist, and a broadcaster on NTS Radio. With origins in the Bay Area, she co-founded CLUB CHAI – a record label and curatorial platform experimenting with non-Western sounds and visuals in the present. Her electroacoustic music sequences Armenian folk instruments and samples, underscored with an electronic rhythmic pulse that draws from a deep appreciation for underground dance music, industrial, dark ambient and cinema. Sarkissian creates immersive sonic landscapes utilizing field recordings, film samples, Armenian sharakan (chant), texts, and various digital and analog instruments. She has released recordings with labels Tresor, Knekelhuis, All Centre, TT, CLUB CHAI, and scores for video and immersive AV installations that have been exhibited at museums in North America and Europe.