Ariel Loh (she/they) is a trans, Asian American producer, composer and mixing/mastering engineer based in New York and Los Angeles. Her work has been featured on Billboard, Rolling Stone, BBC, NPR, Pitchfork, Vice, MTV, as well as major streaming services Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Apple TV Plus. Her education in recording started at SUNY Purchase and then fostered under the likes of Steve Albini (Electrical Audio), James Iha and Adam Schlesinger (Stratosphere Sound) and Joel Hamilton (Studio G).
As a producer, Ariel is credited with developing the sounds of artists such as Iman Jordan (Best Song For Change Grammy Award in 2025 for the song Deliver), Yoke Lore (RIAA Platinum Certification for the song Beige), Cape Francis, Plastic Picnic, Drinker and more. Her productions have amassed over 550 million streams on Spotify. They also produce ambient music under the moniker Window Seat.
As a composer, Variety has praised “the buzzing synths and rattling winds of Loh’s alien-electro score” for their theatrical debut in The Eyes Of My Mother directed by Nicolas Pesce, which was subsequently picked up by Waxwork Records for a limited-run vinyl release in 2018. She has since gone on to score wide-ranging projects from a short documentary series with the Stanley Kubrick Archive to Apple TV’s children’s show Get Rolling With Otis. Upcoming projects include an original score for Pesce’s fourth feature film Visitation.
As a mixer, Ariel’s unique viewpoint of being an audio engineer as well as a composer has led her to mix for pop records as well as film scores such as The Novice (2021), Expats (2024), Terminator: The Anime Series (2024).
Ariel works out of their home studio in Ridgewood, Queens and in Atwater Village in LA. When Ariel is not working on music, you can find her building community in queer music spaces.. Recently, Ariel co-founded the Trans Music Archive - a nonprofit organization focused on preserving the legacy of trans musicians on vinyl.
