Meg Mulhearn is a genre-agnostic performer, composer, violinist, and synthesist working across scenes and spaces. Her deepest joy is connecting with humans around the world through music and creativity; Music is where she gets free. 

As a violinist, she marries new and familiar textures in electric and acoustic realms. Her unique voice on the violin has led to collaborations with heavy groups such as Inter Arma, Bask, Autarch, Generation of Vipers, and U.S. Christmas, and music she has been involved with has been released on Fallen Moon Recordings, Neurot Recordings, Relapse Records, Paradigms Recordings, Season of Mist, Inherent Records, Sequel, and Hooker Vision, among many others. She also writes song-based compositions under the name Divine Circles. Her album Oblivion Songs, described as “a beautiful collection of intimate and experimental songcraft filtered through the Appalachian dusk,” garnered significant critical praise.

As a synthesist, Mulhearn’s practice is inspired by exploring synthesis as an intentional movement of energy. Investigating and interpreting core concepts like attenuation, modulation, and signal flow and their direct relationships with emotional regulation, awareness, curiosity, and expansion, she uses the instrument as a facilitator for meditative and flow states, and as a reflection portal for creative ideas.

A multi-instrumentalist at heart, she uses the violin and synth together both live and on recordings. Her work combining synths and strings can be heard on her first solo synth and violin album, Breath is a Wave (Fallen Moon Recordings, 2021), Conjunctions, a collaborative work with Belly Full of Stars (Fallen Moon Recordings, 2023), her “endless album” on Bandcamp called Archetypes, and her work with the duos Spectral Habitat and Lunar Creature. Her new synth + violin album, Let it Burn Through the Night, created as part of the Ceremony of Seasons “Visuals” series, will be released 2/2/24.

She regularly collaborates with artists across mediums. She composed and performed the music for choreographer Sara Baird’s dance piece Godai, with funding from The National Endowment for The Arts, which premiered at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, and her music has been used for many dance performances. Mulhearn formed Void Ensemble, a group of 10 musicians from across genres that released its first longform piece on the label Sequel. Mulhearn also produces video work alongside her partner, David James Lynch, for their imprint Ephemera House, and she has composed music for documentaries, music videos, and film. True to her collaborative ethos, she also produced and composed strings for Holophrase, the debut release from Yours Truly, and worked as a production consultant on Adrienne Ammerman’s album The Hook and Lush Agave’s Songs for a Moon. 

She has received a Regional Arts Project Grant from Asheville Area Arts Council, served on the board of Girls Rock Asheville, and has designed and participated in several art residencies. She has performed across the world, in venues large and small, and at festivals and art events such as Hopscotch, SXSW, {Re}HAPPENING, and Catalytic Sound, and her work has been profiled in AV Club, Pitchfork, Electronic Sound, Reverb, Vice/Noisey, and many other sites. 

Mulhearn’s current live projects include both solo performance and collaborations. Spectral Habitat, a dynamically-rich duo with vocalist and sound artist Elisa Faires, calls upon influences from classical music, drone, and beyond. Lunar Creature, a duo with David James Lynch, is a guitar, violin, and synth soundscape project that seeks to create immersive textures and moods.