Summer Krinsky is a Detroit based composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, audio engineer, creative coder and multimedia installation artist. She creates distinctive music, characterized by poppy vocals mingling with bizarre ostinatos, polyrhythmic breakbeats, and ethereal soundscapes. Krinsky is captivated by fathoming new compositional frontiers, making art that embodies nowness through examining the intermediary role technology plays in modern identity. Exploring themes of this cyborg era, her sonic sandbox resides at the edge between live instrumentation and contemporary electronics. Krinsky is a recipient of the 2024 Knight New Work grant, 2022 Kresge Fellowship, OneBeat Fellowship, and is a 2023 Radiona (Croatia) Artist-In-Residence. She experiments with programming novel audio controllers and designing interactive installations which have been commissioned and exhibited by organizations including Science Gallery (Detroit, Atlanta, Monterrey and Ireland), Church of Noise, and CultureSource.
Krinsky releases music under the artist name Summer Like The Season. The project has extensively toured the nation, including festal performances at Treefort, SXSW, True/False, A2SF and many more. Summer Like The Season has shared stages with notable acts such as tune-yards, Speedy Ortiz, and Haley Heynderickx. Krinsky’s sophomore record debuted in the spring of 2024 on Earth Libraries (Suzanne Ciani, R. Stevie Moore, Man Or Astro-Man). She is currently pursuing her master’s degree at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
Brightly hued art pop bursting with sound and color, “Hum” is as colorful and surreal as a Dali painting.” -Bandcamp’s New & Notable
“Their aural patchwork of haunting melodies and nuanced harmonic textures is a testament to the creative capacity of sound.” – The Wild Honey Pie
“Intricately woven atmospheric swoons and feverish tones swirl and center around Krinsky’s percussion and vocals, both of which can go from something like a tender shuffle or sway and into something crashing, bracing, and soaring.” – Jeff Milo, music writer for Detroit Free Press and Paste Magazine
“Replete with staccato beats and lilting synth parts, Summer Krinsky’s supple vocals weave their way throughout the sound collage.” – Pop Matters