Musician and composer Lin Culbertson’s extensive experience as an improvisor greatly informs her sound work. Her compositions are composed of synthesized sounds, field recordings, and conventional instruments, which are combined and controlled by semi-random systems. The influence of her graphic design background is evident in the use of graphic scores, video screen grabs, and visual translation software to include non-musical elements in the sound creation process. She is a founding member of the improvisational unit White Out and has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists including Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, William Winant, Mike Watt, C Spencer Yeh, and Carlos Giffoni among many others.