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Anne La Berge - flute / electronics

Anne La Berge's (Palo Alto, California, 1955) career as flutist/improviser/composer stretches across international and stylistic boundaries. Her most recent performances bring together the elements on which her international reputation is based: a ferocious and far-reaching virtuosity, a penchant for improvising delicately spun microtonal textures and melodies, and her wholly unique array of powerfully percussive flute effects, all combined with electronic processing. Many of her compositions involve her own participation, though she has produced works intended solely for other performers, usually involving guided improvisation.The last few years have seen a new addition to her work: enigmatic texts which slide seamlessly in and out of her compositions and improvisations. In addition to creating her own work she regularly performs in other artistsÕ projects in a range of settings from modern chamber music to improvised electronic music. While pursuing PhD research at the University of California, San Diego in the mid-1980s, she formed a duo with flutist John Fonville, commissioning new works and exploring extended techniques on flute, particularly with regard to microtonal scales. She moved to Amsterdam in 1989, where she has lived ever since. In 1999, together with Steve Heather and Cor Fuhler, she founded Kraakgeluiden, a improvisation series based in Amsterdam, exploring combinations of acoustic instruments, electronic instruments and computers, and using
real-time interactive performance systems. Many of the musical collaborations that have resulted
have taken on a life beyond the Kraakgeluiden series, which ceased in 2006. La BergeÕs own music has evolved in parallel, and the flute has become only one element in a sound world that includes computer samples, the use of spoken text and electronic processing. She can be heard on the Largo, Artifact, Etcetera, Hat Art, Frog Peak, Einstein, X-OR, Unsounds, Canal Street, Rambo, esc.rec. and Data labels which include recordings as a soloist and with Ensemble Modern, United Noise Toys, Fonville/La Berge duo, Rasp/Hasp, Bievre/La Berge duo, Apricot My Lady and the Corkestra. Her
music is published by Frog Peak Music and by Donemus. Anne La Berge has regularly received funding from the Dutch Funds for Composers, the Funds for the Amateur and Podium Arts and the Amsterdam Funds for the Arts. She is currently on the board of directors of the Women in Music, the Trio Scordatura, the Royal Improvisers Orchestra and the Bewegende Kamer (The moving room) Foundations and is the co-director, with her husband David Dramm, of the voLsap Foundation. In 2009 she was invited to be one of the three jury members at the Gaudeamus International Music Week in The Netherlands.


For more info:
http://www.annelaberge.nl/
http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/laberge.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_La_Berge