Tag: Laura Steenberge

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

Laura Steenberge, a composer who researches the practice of word painting in medieval chant and sometimes performs on the contrabass or viola de gamba, studied at the California Institute of the Arts alongside Catherine Lamb and Julia Holter at a time when the compositional staff included the likes of Michael Pisaro-Liu, Wolfgang von Schweinitz and James Tenney. She has recorded...