Lauren Bousfield

Lauren Bousfield
Also known asNero's Day at Disneyland
OriginOakland, California, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)Library musician, composer
Instruments
  • Piano
  • Modular synthesizers
Years active
  • 2005–2011 (as Nero's Day at Disneyland)
  • 2012–present (as Lauren Bousfield)
LabelsCock Rock Disco
Member of
  • In-House Pharmacy
  • DOOR EATER
Formerly of
  • Beautiful Mutants
  • Strip Mall Seizures
  • Self Spiller
Websitehttps://www.laurenbousfield.com

Lauren Bousfield is an electronic musician, composer, and sound designer based in Los Angeles. She initially gained recognition for her project Nero's Day at Disneyland, and since 2012 she has also released music both under her own name and as part of the duos In-House Pharmacy and DOOR EATER. In addition, she composes music for television, film, and video games.[1]

Career and works

Bousfield has previously worked for Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions[2] but said in 2021 that she was fired soon after she transitioned.[3]

In 2017, Bousfield released an EP called Fire Songs, which was made after the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire and a house fire in her own home. The opening track No Clocks No Mirrors honors Joey Casio, a friend of Bousfield and fellow musician who died in the Ghost Ship fire,[4] while the closing track titled Cirlgocks marks her inaugural work with her wife, Naomi Mitchell.

On October 14, 2018, Bousfield and Mitchell released their first album as In-House Pharmacy, a rescored soundtrack to Tetsuo: The Iron Man titled Tetsuo: The Iron Man Revisited. The album pays tribute to both the film and Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto, and explores transgender themes through instrumentation that references to the film's central motif of bodily transformation.[5] This was followed by a second release under the In-House Pharmacy name in 2020, We Are Electronics and Piano Only,[6] in which Bousfield and Mitchell experiment with the limitations of using only a piano and a modular synthesizer to produce a full album. In 2022, the duo released a single named Stochastic Violence.[7]

In 2021, Bousfield participated in the multimedia arts event Pique, presenting a piece inspired by Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade floats. She described the visuals, once again created in collaboration with Naomi Mitchell, as “floats popping or generally causing mayhem,” symbolizing fragility and collapse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bousfield cited a fascination with North American amusement culture, such as parades and theme parks, and emphasized how her live performances often serve as a place to expand on musical ideas.[8]

In 2025, Bousfield and Ada Rook announced the noise pop project DOOR EATER. Their debut album try released in June 2025.[9] Bousfield and Rook had previously collaborated on the song Hazer from Bousfield's 2023 album Salesforce.[10]

Discography

With Beautiful Mutants

Studio Albums

  • Rock and Roll Mind Control (circa 1998)
  • Who Feeds on Whom (circa. 1999)
  • Beautiful Mutants (circa. 2000)

With Strip Mall Seizures

Studio Albums

  • Strip Mall Seizures (2003)
  • No English (2006)
  • Secret To Financial Freedom (2008)
  • I'll Never Give Up On You (2011)

As Nero's Day at Disneyland

Studio albums

  • Attention Shoppers (2005)
  • Trickle Down Economixxx (2008)
  • From Rotting Fantasylands (2009)

EPs

  • Grievances and Dead Malls (2005)
  • Colonists (2007)

Singles

  • Mascara Running Everywhere (2010)
  • Bent Chorals feat. Mincemeat or Tenspeed (2010)
  • Heaven's Gate (2011)
  • Sable Leathery Wings (2011)

In Self Spiller

Studio Albums

  • Worms In The Keys (2012)
  • Worms In The Keys Remixes (2017)

Singles

  • Fountain Of Blood (2014)

As Lauren Bousfield

Studio albums

  • Avalon Vales (2013)
  • Namazu Running OST (2016)
  • Palimpsest (2020)
  • Salesforce (2023)

EPs

  • Locked into Phantasy (2012)
  • Fire Songs (2017)

Singles

  • Valed (2013)
  • Dead Eyes (2016)
  • Clocked (2016)
  • Slow Slicing - Klonopin (2016)
  • Flying High feat. Skylla (2016)
  • Scold's Bridle (2016)
  • Fukup feat. Skylla (2016)
  • Used to Be Better feat. Girls Rituals (2017)
  • Press Fire from No World Dreamers: Sticky Zeitgeist (2017)
  • Crawling Into a Fireplace Cackling (2020)
  • Forest Theme (2021)
  • Swamp Theme (2021)
  • Irl Theme (2021)
  • Headstone Prices on Credit (2023)
  • Mansions No One Wants to Buy for Any Price (2023)
  • Hazer (2023)
  • White Clouds Turning Black Factory Farm Flames In The Distance (2024)

Mixes

  • Lauren Bousfield @ 909 Fest (2020)
  • Lauren Bousfield - Worst Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade Accidents!! (2021)
  • Lauren Bousfield - 7/22/21 - HausMo Fun One: July Edition (2021)
  • Lauren Bousfield Dublab Set 6.14.23 (2023)

As In House Pharmacy

EPs

  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man Revisited (2018)
  • We Are Electronics and Piano Only (2020)
  • In-House Pharmacy B-sides 001 (2020)

Singles

  • Thunder and Rain (2021)
  • Stochastic Violence (2022)

As DOOR EATER

Singles

  • stay out (2025)
  • dead sky (2025)
  • lifeblood (2025)

Albums

  • try (2025)

References

  1. ^ "Lauren Bousfield Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio &". AllMusic.
  2. ^ "Summer Happenings at The Broad 2016". www.thebroad.org. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  3. ^ "Post from Bousfield's own social media about her firing". x.com. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  4. ^ "Lauren Bousfield's Fire Songs Honors Ghost ship Victims and Her Own Fire Trauma". LaWeekly. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
  5. ^ "Tetsuo: The Iron Man Revisited". Bandcamp. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  6. ^ "We Are Electronics and Piano Only". Bandcamp. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
  7. ^ "Stochastic Violence". Bandcamp. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
  8. ^ "Pique artist interview: Lauren Bousfield". Debaser. 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  9. ^ "DOOR EATER". Bandcamp. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
  10. ^ "Salesforce". Bandcamp. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
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