Gavilán Rayna Russom

Gavilán Rayna Russom is a New York producer, musician, DJ, visual artist and writer, born in Providence in 1974. After studying computer music and composition at Bard College, she began working with Delia Gonzalez in 1998, a partnership that led to The Days of Mars on DFA. In Berlin she made the Black Meteoric Star records, later formed The Crystal Ark with Viva Ruiz and toured with LCD Soundsystem on synths and percussion. Known as a builder of instruments for James Murphy and others, she makes work that questions fixed ideas around gender. She released The Envoy on Ecstatic, founded the label Voluminous Arts in 2020 and recorded a three-hour Dekmantel Podcast.