Latest Project: Last year, she released “Pieces in Space,” a 12-track album that received favorable reviews from Pitchfork. As the writer Sheldon Pearce put it, the album “documents life online as a black female gamer, and in turn reveals how the internet is dehumanizing us.” Never is that message clearer than on the tracks “Comments Disabled” and “1080p,” which she wrote to raise awareness for mental health. Now she is recording a new studio album.

Next Thing: In addition to her music, Ms. Lumumba-Kasongo is a Ph.D. candidate in science and technology studies at Cornell University. Her dissertation is on the politics of community recording studios that serve low-income artists. At the end of the day, “It’s a way for me to just continue doing my music,” she said.

Unexpected Influences: Though it may not be obvious on first listen, Ms. Lumumba-Kasongo counts Björk, Daft Punk and Kanye West among her influences. “The kind of limitless sense of possibility about what an artist can be or what an artist could do is something that, from a very young age, I was enamored with,” she said.