Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs is a composer, vocalist, and artist 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, New York Times Magazine and. The New York Times.
Riggs’s compositional practice ranges from solo electronic performance, experimental opera, film scores, and chamber music to large-scale participatory choral works. 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 excerpts of her librettos in WITCH Anthology edited by Michelle Tea on Dopamine Books, an imprint of Semiotext(e).