EVENTS
July 10: Asheville, NC. Solo set of songs on the piano for the Untethered concert series at Revolve, 7pm.
July 18: Asheville, NC. Improvised ensemble with bass clarinet, violin, cello, and 2 contrabasses organised by Charlie Boss at AyurPrana listening room.
July 11: London, UK, St. Mary-at-Hill: Selected pieces from Seven Poems, inspired by Emily Dickinson’s envelop poems. Curated by Music We’d Like to Hear.
August 30, London, UK, Café Oto. Rebecca Lane performs Light and Chant Studies for solo voice and bass flute as part of the Sacred Realism residency.
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 an interdisciplinary composer and performer at the crossroads of music, language, gesture, and mythology. Her creative and research practice encompasses vocal composition and songwriting, instrumental chamber works, research on word painting in medieval chant, experiments in audiovisual and ceremonial performance practices, and performance with contrabass and viola da gamba. Recent recording projects include the Imaginary Music Radio Hour (NTS.com), Harmonica Fables (Nueni Recs), and The Four Winds recorded by Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble (New Focus Recordings). She has taught experimental sound practices at the California Institute of the Arts and Stanford University and resides in Asheville, NC where she teaches elementary music at Mountain City Public Montessori.
Current composition and performance projects: new works for bass trio (for Grotto Lung Three), concert-length audiovisual percussion duo (for Deso Duo).
Current research: reconstructing the polyphony of the 72 Verses for St. Martial, a mid-eleventh century composition by Ademar de Chabannes; the transcription and recording of the Liturgy of Ste. Foy under the umbrella of the EnChanted Images project at Stanford, directed by medieval art historian Bissera Pentcheva.
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