Piriforms, by Laura Steenberge

Piriforms

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A beautiful edition of only 150 glass mastered CDs in a clear poly sleeve with hand stamped cover and a 22 page full color booklet featuring photos, drawings, and text by Laura Steenberge, with additional text by Michael Winter, Rebecca Lane, and Catherine Lamb.

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1.	Piriforms 10:17	info	buy track
2.	72 Verses studies 19:53	info	buy track
3.	Toile 1 06:00	info	buy track
4.	Toile 2 02:44	info	buy track
5.	Toile 3 04:07	info	buy track
6.	Light & Chant studies 1-7 13:19	info	buy track

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"In medieval chant, music seems to have come from elsewhere.
It is the angels that are singing, they said, like gourds
hung up for purple martins. By the time notation started coming
around, hundreds of chants were already hundreds of years old.
New chants followed in their footsteps, trying to seem unwritten.
In some monasteries, the monks sang for six hours a day. Through
the daily toil of reenacting eternity, subtler shapes become audible.
Sometimes the angels show up when the consonants are taken
away, or some other change is made that renders the language
unintelligible. Swedenborg said there are some angels who speak
with U and O and other angels that speak with E and I, but that in the
center, inmost heaven, language is made of patterns of numbers.
The labor required to hear the angels is mundane and physical.
Singing for hours a day sounds idyllic but also laborious. Singing
for so long in such reverberant spaces, I wonder about the
complexity of harmonics, combination tones or whatever other
sonic artifacts that the monastic singers gained sensitivity to.

In this collection there is a piece for one performer, a piece for two performers, a piece for three performers, and a piece for four performers. But even in the solo it is about relationships, as the two parts are created with the same breath. The demonic energy is in between things, the sounds cast shadows upon each other."

- Laura Steenberge

Thank you to Bissera, Cat, Jess, Julia, Mustafa, Rebecca, and Q for the inspiration.

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released April 24, 2025

all music by Laura Steenberge

Performers:
Rebecca Lane - bass flute, voice
Catherine Lamb - voice
Julia Holter - voice
Yannick Goudon - voice
Evelyn Saylor - voice

"Piriforms", "72 Verses", and "Toile" recorded and mixed by Bryan Eubanks
"Light & Chant studies" recorded and mixed by Sam Dunscombe

NOTE: For digital album buyers the full liner notes can be found at the link below.

SR022
www.sacredrealism.org/label/releases/sr022/
www.laurasteenberge.com

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Laura Steenberge Asheville, North Carolina

Laura Steenberge is an interdisciplinary composer and performer at the crossroads of music, language, gesture, and mythology.

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