Nick Norton and Cristina Lord both have new albums on the way. These mainstays of the LA new music community open the 2025-26 Tuesdays @ Monk Space season with synths, vocals, field recordings, and strings, in a concert of material drawn from their upcoming releases.

Both Cristina and Nick have found themselves dealing with information overload and the ever-present overstimulation and emotional jetlag of today’s world. On Cristina’s debut LP, If It All Falls, genre-fluid pieces explore concepts of texture and identity, each forging a uniquely layered sound world. Dense clouds of morphing sound are grounded by driving rhythms, with cascades of arpeggiated synthesizers and processed vocals bouncing in and out of empty space, crashing into each other, and escaping into the void.

Nick’s forthcoming album, “Hey, slow down.” is an effort to make space for oneself in the chaos we seem to be living through. Lush sonic landscapes provide listeners with a place to reclaim a moment of freedom from the daily assault. Heavily influenced by nature and performed in immersive audio, Nick’s set is also peppered with a few favorites from his debut album Music For Sunsets. This new collaborative show, developed for Monk Space, is a place for making discoveries both internal and external, personal and universal.