Lucia Udvardyová is a music journalist and organizer. In 2010, together with Peter Gonda, she co-founded Easterndaze, a project that aims to document and interconnect the emerging underground scenes in Central and Eastern Europe. Together, Udvardyová and Gonda run a music label called Baba Vanga.

She has cooperated with Czech Radio, Resonance FM, Cashmere Radio, The Quietus, The Wire, Electronic Beats, and Bayerischer Rundfunk, among others. In 2015, she curated an exhibition series of events presenting the visual aesthetics of underground labels from Central and Eastern Europe at the OFF Biennale in Budapest. Since 2016, she’s been curating the Easterndaze x Berlin series that aims to bring together collectives from Berlin and the CEE region. She also gives lectures and talks, and leads sound-related workshops (CEU, University of Sorbonne, etc).

She currently works for SHAPE platform (Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe), a pan-European festival initiative that promotes innovative music and audiovisual art. She is also a research associate at Unearthing the Music, a historical project that aims to explore the legacy of experimental and underground music in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Portugal and Spain, and she is one of the coordinators of the sound art programme at the Budapest Art Residency. She was a contributing curator at the Listening Biennial, upon invitation by Brandon LaBelle, in 2021. She occasionally plays and performs music.