Lora-Faye Åshuvud

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:

Washing Machines and Iranian Weather Forecasts

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. 

Tonight at 9 pm on New Sounds Radio: “Good Taste” in Music

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. 

Music That Interferes With the Sound of Its Own Making, Pt 2

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.

Tonight at 7 pm on New Sounds Radio: Interference Pt. 1

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.

Tonight at 9 pm on New Sounds Radio: Shocks from yet Another World

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.

Today at 3 pm on New Sounds Radio: The Technique of Hocketing

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."

Today at 3 pm on New Sounds Radio: Collage in Music

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.

New Show, 'Odd Theory,' with Lora-Faye Åshuvud

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.