Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs is a composer working in site-responsive performance, installation, recorded sound, and object-making. Her work has been presented by the LA Phil; Getty Center; ICA, LA; the Broad; MoCA; Hammer Museum; High Desert Test Sites (Joshua Tree); and featured in Artforum.com, Frieze.com, X-TRA, and New York Times Magazine.
She leads two choral groups and a band called Bouquet, described as “Heady” by Under the Radar Magazine, “Best New Music” by KCRW, and “prismatic…perfection” by KEXP. In 2025, she published new writing in WITCH Anthology edited by Michelle Tea on Dopamine Books, an imprint of Semiotext(e).