Up Until Now
Anne La Berge will perform a version of Up Until Now, a sonic and narrative journey through some of her works from 2005 - 2024. Up Until Now follows the steps she has taken in her life as a performer/composer.
Interactive electronics, storytelling, improvisation and music are all part of the tapestry of her performance.
Anne La Berge
Composition, Performance
Anne La Berge's passion for the extremes in both composed and improvised music has led her to the fringes of storytelling and sound art as her sources of musical inspiration. She performs as a multimedia musician and is one of the composer/performers in the Amsterdam ensemble MAZE. She works as an improvisation and live electronics coach worldwide and currently teaches at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague.
She can be heard on the Largo, Artifact, Etcetera, Hat Art, Frog Peak, Einstein, X-OR, Unsounds, Canal Street, Rambo, esc.rec., Intackt, Data, verz, Real Music House, Relative Pitch, Carrier, Present Sounds Recordings and Splendor Amsterdam labels. Her music is published by Frog Peak Music and Alry Publications; and her Max-patch based compositions are available from her privately.
She is a founding artist of the Splendor Amsterdam collective of musicians who have transformed an old bathhouse in Amsterdam into a cultural mecca, where she regularly produces and shares small scale concerts with international guests, and she is the director of the Volsap Foundation that produces innovative music projects and international tours.
"The miracle of her sound technique is supported by, among other things, different lip-positions, attacks, ways of breathing, distance from the microphone – everything has been foreseen and elaborated. . . Her textures are often two-voiced. It is all so complicated that it defies description and yet it sounds very natural, like a bird’s song."
Muusika, Tallin
"La Berge is a precursor of some of the important things contemporary composition has now come to mean."
The Wire