Annie Garlid is a musicologist, viola player, singer, and composer. She currently works as a faculty fellow in the music department at New York University, where she earned her PhD in 2024. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she embraces both contemporary and historical forms of sonic experimentalism as laboratories for theorizing relationships between human communities, nature, and the sacred. As a performer, Annie works primarily in historical performance and contemporary music. She has played viola with the American Classical Orchestra, Seraphic Fire, the Cramer Quartet, De Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, the Netherlands Bach Society, the Handel & Haydn Society, and Tafelmusik, and worked with Pierre Boulez, Masaaki Suzuki, David Robertson, Peter Eötvös, Kristian Bezuidenhout, and Bernard Labadie. She sang on Holly Herndon’s 2019 album PROTO and Caterina Barbieri’s 2019 album Ecstatic Computation. She has collaborated and performed with a number of other composers and artists, including Rosemarie Trockel, Bill Kouligas, Nile Koetting, Cat Lamb, Kodomo, Hanno Leichtmann, Beat Detectives, and Homme & Garden. She released her debut album as UCC Harlo in 2019 and her second album, Topos, in 2023. Under that moniker she has since toured internationally, licensed her music to Chanel and JW Anderson, and produced remixes for Know V.A. and NY Graffiti.