Alycen seated at her black harp overlooking mountains and water at sunset

ALYCEN FRIDLEY, BSN RN

electroacoustic harpist · original music · live looping

Sacred sounds
for ceremony
+ celebration

Original electroacoustic harp music that moves from angelic stillness into atmospheric, ethereal soundscapes.

Music shaped by the moment.

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Alycen’s face beside her harp, with golden sunlight passing through the strings on the left

When the harp
enters the space

There is something otherworldly about hearing the harp. The resonance awakens a gentle remembering.

Alycen plays a luminous electroacoustic LED harp with a sound that can feel delicate enough to stop time and expansive enough to fill a festival space.

Her original music moves between composed pieces and the freedom to follow what is happening in the aether.

Listeners have described her playing as angelic, ethereal, heavenly, magical, and trance-inducing.

The music becomes part of movement, conversation, sunset, ceremony, or the celebration already unfolding around it.

The harp adorns
the atmosphere.

Original music · recorded live

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FOR ATHENA

Original composition · solo harp

FEATURED AUDIO

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GATHERING LIGHT

Original composition · live at an immersive Bay Area gathering

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THRESHOLD

Live collaborative improvisation · private ceremony at High Vibe Fest

FEATURED AUDIO

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INVOCATION

Live collaborative improvisation · festival ceremony

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People gathered and reclining around Alycen’s harp at Burning Man
Music becomes part of the space.
Alycen playing her illuminated harp against colorful psychedelic architecture

An ancient instrument for the moment we’re in

Alycen sees music as one of our oldest human technologies.

Humans have always used music to gather.

To mark thresholds.

To celebrate.

To move.

To enter trance.

To commune with something larger than the thinking mind.

That lineage is alive in the way she plays.

The harp carries an ancient resonance.

Amplification allows that resonance to inhabit a modern environment.

Improvisation and live looping give the music room to respond.

Alycen weaves layers of harmony, rhythm, and texture built in real time.

The form changes, responding to the room.

Featured recording

Heaven’s Gates
— Special Version

SamOurEye feat. Aly Fridley

Featured harp performance.

Listen on Spotify →

Music + human experience

Music as a way
of remembering

Alycen’s relationship with music is intertwined with a larger devotion to human sovereignty.

Her work as a holistic nurse has given her an intimate view into the ways environment, emotion, rhythm, sensory experience, and relationship shape how we experience ourselves.

Music belongs inside that inquiry.

A note reaches the body before the mind has decided what it means. Rhythm can pull us into movement. Repetition can become trance. Beauty can interrupt the noise. A shared musical moment can remind a room full of people that they are here together.

This is the territory Alycen is interested in:

where music becomes ceremony, ceremony becomes celebration, and gathering becomes a way of healing and remembering.

Ceremony + celebration

Live

Every environment asks for something different.

Alycen’s performances can range from a single unaccompanied harp beneath the open sky to a layered electroacoustic set built for a festival stage.

01

Original harp sets

Original compositions played solo with space for spontaneous riffing and exploration inside the music.

Intimate, transporting, and deeply alive.

02

Immersive electroacoustic sets

Amplified harp that can move between spacious melodic pieces and more expansive rhythmic territory.

Live looping can be woven into these sets to create layered soundscapes in real time.

03

Ambient environments

Extended harp music for gathering spaces, dinners, lounges, installations, sunsets, arrivals, and transitions.

Music that gives a space its own atmosphere.

04

Movement + trance

Live accompaniment for yoga, conscious movement, dance, embodiment, sound baths, and experiences where music becomes part of the journey.

05

Collaborative improvisation

Spontaneous collaboration with DJs, electronic artists, instrumentalists, and other musicians.

A shared musical language created in the moment.

06

Ceremony + meditation

Harp for meditation, reflection, ritual, sound-based experiences, and the quieter thresholds of a gathering.

Alycen playing harp indoors in a flowing light-colored outfit

The harp was
always there

Alycen came into the world wanting to play the harp.

There was no family tradition.

There was no formative encounter with a harp in childhood.

There was simply a certainty that this instrument was hers.

At nine years old, after several years of piano to prove to her parents that this was not a phase, she finally began harp lessons.

She has been a harpist ever since.

Over time, her relationship with the instrument moved toward original composition and the freedom inside a piece of music.

She loves the architecture of a song.

She also loves the moment when the song opens and something unexpected comes through.

That instinct eventually led her toward improvisation, electroacoustic performance, and live looping.

She has studied with healing harpist Amy Camie, CCM, and live-looping harp innovator Deborah Henson-Conant.

For Alycen, the harp itself holds a metaphor for being human.

Every string carries its own tension.

Every string carries its own voice.

There are no bad notes.
Only passing tones.

STAGES, SPACES + GATHERINGS

SELECTED
PERFORMANCES

  1. YAM FEST
  2. REKINECTION FESTIVAL
  3. MEDICINA CAMPOUT
    MICROFESTIVAL
  4. HIGH VIBE FEST
  5. BURNING MAN

Plus numerous ceremonies, gatherings, parties, movement experiences, and community events throughout the Bay Area, the Midwest, and Northern California.

Alycen playing her harp on the rocky California coast
Alycen seated with her harp against the ocean and open sky in Cambria
Alycen playing her black harp beneath trees beside the water

Performance + collaboration

Create the
moment together

Alycen is available for festivals, ceremonies, movement experiences, immersive gatherings, collaborative performances, and spaces where music is part of creating the experience itself.

For performance and collaboration inquiries: