Ariadne Randall is an American artist, composer, and writer based in Vienna. Her work practices worldbuilding through transmedia narrative. Through strategies of material depth and formal juxtaposition, she creates spaces for imagination in sound, language, and image. She holds degrees in classical composition and contemporary art from UCLA and Bard MFA. She has performed widely, from Lincoln Center to countless basements; been a part of work featured in the BBC, CNN, and Artforum; participated in the SPRING, ImageTanz, and Musiktheatertage festivals; and her first performance work, Reverse Cowgirl β, premiered at brut Wien in 2023 through the Huggy Bears Mentorship Program. She is represented by Galerie Peter Gaugy. 

The child of a traveling apocalyptic evangelist and a Gospel singer who roamed America’s Bible Belt, her practice is rooted in a fusion of influences derived from Zen kōans, low theory, postwar American experimentalism, Medieval aural and visual forms, contemporary digital culture, and poetry. She previously lived in New York City, where she organized underground venues, zines, and radio. Her scores for theater and film have been shown in New York, Hollywood, London, Canada, and South Korea. Her writing has been published in Prelude Magazine and elsewhere. She is an Austrian National Residency Fellow for Music (BMKÖS), was a research assistant in ancient music at UCLA, and spent ten years in Rinzai Zen training.

She has worked with Rosa Anschütz, Via App, Genevieve Belleveau, Anastasia Clarke, Dreamcrusher, Eartheater, Matt Evans, Asa Horvitz, Wayne Horvitz, Tallesen, Amirtha Kidambi, Tristan Kasten-Krause, Beta Librae, Robert Ponger (Falco), Anna Roberts-Gevalt (Anna & Elizabeth), Carmen Quill (Carmen Q. Rothwell), Colin Self, Rebecca Fin Simonetti, Molly Soda, Umfang, Trevor Wilson & Vocal Ensemble, VALES, and posted in The Jogging

She has shared the stage with Show Me The Body, Blood Orange, Daniel Carter, Che Chen, Christeene, Dan Deacon, Huerco S., Colin Fisher, Guardian Alien, Guerrilla Toss, Sarah Kinlaw, Muyassar Kurdi, Monica Mirabile, Oneida, M. Geddes Gengras, Gut Nose, Adrian Knight, Pictureplane, A Place To Bury Strangers, Ratking, Ben Seretan, Azuria Sky, Tallesen, Weeping Icon, and Ziemba, among others. 

Notable venues include 285 Kent, the Brick, brut Wien, Bowery Poetry Club, Cell Project Space, Daytrotter Sessions, Danspace Project, DAS Theatre, De School, DeSingel, Het HEM, Flux Factory, La Fonderie Darling, Glasslands, HERE Arts Center, ISSUE Project Room, Montez Press Radio, Joshua Tree National Park, Knockdown Center, KPFA, Microscope Gallery, Para Site, Park Church Co-Op, PCCC, Phoenix Theatre, The Royal Room, SculptureCenter, The Silent Barn, Trans-Pecos, and WFMU.