Lora-Faye Åshuvud is the award-winning composer, singer, and instrumentalist behind the band Arthur Moon. Lora-Faye writes many of her lyrics using cut up newspaper and magazine articles, and describes the process of composing the band's experimental pop arrangements as similarly collage-like. In her spare time, she curates Soundfly's "Incorrect Music," an online interview series with musicians. Lora-Faye was raised in Brooklyn, where she still lives.
Lora-Faye Åshuvud is the award-winning composer, singer, and instrumentalist behind the band Arthur Moon. Lora-Faye writes many of her lyrics using cut up newspaper and magazine articles, and describes the process of composing the band's experimental pop arrangements as similarly collage-like. In her spare time, she curates Soundfly's "Incorrect Music," an online interview series with musicians. Lora-Faye was raised in Brooklyn, where she still lives.
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Lora-Faye Åshuvud appears in the following:
Tuesday, August 07, 2018
Hear songs exploring the tension between headphone music and music for people together in a room, all with different approaches to music-making bubbling underneath.
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Host Lora-Faye reflects on the idea of “good taste” in music and gets a chance to speak with bandleader, composer and saxophonist Hailey Niswanger, aka MAE.SUN.
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Hear experiments in vibrato with music from Rokia Traoré, serpentwithfeet, and Deradoorian, as well as performances of compositions by Phil Niblock and Ellen Arkbro.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Hear work that seeks out ways to intervene with the clarity of sound: William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops", Stella Chiweshe’s mbira, and the modular synths of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Continuing her exploration of texture, host Lora-Faye Åshuvud shares music in which the voice (from vocal cords or an instrument) becomes greater than just a melody paired with lyrics.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Hear recordings involving hockets from Meredith Monk, a work by Dirty Projectors and Bjork, music by the Aka People of Central Africa, and Louis Andriessen's "Hocketus."
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Journey through different kinds of collage in music from late producer and rapper J Dilla, sampling gurus The Books, plus music from Y La Bamba and French composer Felicia Atkinson.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Hear songs and soundscapes that have a grain to them for this first episode of Odd Theory, from electronic music to Tropical Futurism. Fridays at 3 pm on New Sounds Radio.