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"Lauri des Marais is on the cutting edge of experimental music." --American Composers Forum.
Her compositions are primarily synthesized streams between shape, mood, and pattern-texture construction; this she refers to as Classical Technology, which creates Stories in Sound. (side note: when you click on Movement So Still With Sound brings you to file image lauri picture.jpg or face hands (see which looks better), lauri zeitgeist photo with KT.jpg , lauri MSSWS.jpg , lauri press photo , )
Lauri des Marais taught herself how to play piano in 1994 and now has a large body of works that include solo piano, large-scale compositions, music concrete, sampler electronic music, video projects, and music for dance. In her personal practice of Deep Listening (TM), she developed a form of movement she calls Movement So Still With Sound, where themes of traditional eastern movement translate the subtler dimensional qualities of her music. Her repertoire includes Towards Harmony: Mapping Peace through Sound which premiered at the Gloucester New Arts Festival in 2006. Samples of Lauri des Marais’ work can be found at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music library, with special thanks to Pauline Oliveros.
Performances with Pauline Oliveros, Composer at Plan B Evolving Arts in celebration of Deep Listening, and at the Deep Listening Institute. 13 Transitions was showcased in 1999 at the premier Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, hosted by the Henry Miller Library. Other artists she has worked with are:
- Mission of Burma and Alloy Orchestra 's Roger Miller, who can be minimally and distinctly heard in the piece Silence on her first album Stimuli, and on Stimuli !
- Erik Lindgren - Wikipedia
- Ken Field whose large scale of works include jazzy sounds for the animations of his wife Karen Aqua on Sesame Street
- James Coleman, Boston improv heavyweight, Thereminist
- Kris Thompson, thereminist with the Lothars, and many other projects
Biography of Lauri des Marais
Composer, sound design, Choreographer Stories in Sound, Movement So Still With Sound