MEDIA
+ Piriforms now out! Available digitally, or cd with 22 page color booklet on Bandcamp from Sacred Realism. Four works for voice, some with bass flute as well. Performed by Yannick Guédon, Julia Holter, Catherine Lamb, Rebecca Lane, and Evelyn Saylor.
+ “Yes it is polyphony, and a map: revisiting the 72 Verses for St. Martial” research paper on an eleventh-century polyphonic composition by Ademar de Chabannes available here
+ Imaginary Music Radio Hour shows are archived here
+ Essay and recording (viola da gamba solo) up now on Lateral Addition
+ Harmonica Fables, release by nueni recs. Info here, and reviews here.
+ Check out Sarah Davachi’s Pale Bloom, Eric km Clark and I joined her on violin and viola da gamba.
+ Also check out Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends. I got to contribute a little singing with some wonderful people: Julia Holter, Jessika Kenney and Simone Forti.
+ Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble release, Motherland, includes The Four Winds (2015).
+ For Mike Winter’s release, lower limit, he asked me to write the liner notes and I got to learn a lot about math as a result.
+ Article by Leah B. Levinson in Soap Ear #2
+ I was included in The Guardian feature, The Sound of LA!
+ Research paper about word painting in medieval Byzantine chant has been published in Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics and Ritual, ed. Bissera Pentcheva.
ABOUT
Bio: Laura Steenberge is a composer and performer who sings and plays piano, contrabass, and viola da gamba. Her practice is centered on language and the voice, encompassing studies of medieval chant, the function of non-semantic language, folksong traditions, and the physics of harmony. Since 2021 she has been based in Asheville, North Carolina.
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