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Lorna Krier is one of the most versatile young keyboardists in New York performing music from experimental to pop on anything from analog synthesizers to toy pianos to Steinways. Ms. Krier has been described as “a pianist specializing in contemporary music, who has become an expert synthesizer player and is helping break down the boundary between new classical and indie rock” (Lukas Ligeti). Acting as an advocate for new music, she has worked with some of the nation’s finest young composers and performers to create exciting new works.
Since arriving in New York in 2006, she has been a founding member of many ensembles including the chamber-rock ensemble, Victoire, founded by composer Missy Mazzoli, which has been dubbed the “all-star, all-female quintet” (Time Out NY). They released their debut EP, A Door Into the Dark, on eMusic.com in 2009 and their first full-length album, Cathedral City with New Amsterdam Records Fall 2010 to critical acclaim. Lorna Krier has also co-founded the synthesizer project Love Like Deloreans, which released their self-titled EP on Friendly Ghost Recordings in 2009 and have performed throughout New York, Montreal, San Francisco, and Boston at festivals such as the Rooftop Films Festival, Knitting Factory’s NY Eye & Ear, City Sol, Brooklyn Arts Council's "Glitch Generation", Z-Arts! Festival in Zion, Utah, among others. Finally, the most recent project in which Ms. Krier has been initiated as a member is the genre-bending experimental improv group, Kaleidoscope Point, founded by composer-percussionist Lukas Ligeti.
Some highlights for this and recent seasons include the Philip Glass and JoAnne Akalaitis production of “The Bacchae” Shakespeare in the Park 2009, Victoire performance at the Bang on a Can Marathon 2009, a silent film sound exhibit with Victoire and a Composer Showcase featuring Lukas Ligeti both at the Whitney Art Museum, an appearance on the “Wordless Music Series”, two live performances on WNYC’s New Sounds and Soundcheck, MATA Festival 2010 and MATA Interval Series 2009 performances featuring composer Tristan Perich, guest keyboardist for the award-winnning Present Music Ensemble in Milwaukee, WI, Western Vinyl Release party with composer Christopher Tignor, the New Albion Festival at Bard’s Summerscape Series 2008 with the experimental rock group Slow Six, two performances for Rooftop Films Festival, City Sol, and Imagine Science Films Festival. Lorna Krier has also appeared in features in the New York Times, Time Out New York, eMusic, Arthur Magazine, Impose Magazine, Village Voice, Tiny Mix Tapes, Matrixsynth, Opening Ceremony, The Daily Contributor and Brooklyn Vegan.
PROJECTS:"Liable to surprise you at any turn, Lorna Dune is a rather uncategorisable creature. As a virtuoso pianist, she’s the founder of several chamber and new music ensembles in New York, and contributes to the wider and weirder community of electronic artists making sound together with her synthesist sensiblities. On one hand you might find Lorna Dune playing with the Philip Glass Ensemble, or performing with Steve Reich, or even composing new music with Missy Mazzoli in the ensemble Victoire, and her minimal aesthetic has been informed by the best in the world. On the flipside, her take on weighty techno and dreamy synthscapes, both solo and in the trio Love Like Deloreans, displays an intuitive grasp of the kind of structure and arrangements that can send a dance floor into fits of ecstasy. An experimental keyboardist who is happy to go wherever her heart and ears tell her, redefining genres along the way, Lorna Dune inhabits a world of her own, and it’s a glorious thing to behold." - Red Bull Music AcademyVICTOIRE is a family of musical misfits living in New York City, helmed by composer/keyboardist Missy Mazzoli. This “all-star, all-female band” (Time Out New York) of voices, strings, keyboards, clarinets and electronics performs Mazzoli’s hypnotic blend of dreamy chamber pop and rich romanticism. Their debut album Cathedral City, released on New Amsterdam Records, envelopes the listener in a tapestry of classical influences, distorted guitars, multi-layered vocals, vintage keyboard sounds and stuttering samples. Cathedral City was named one of 2010′s best classical albums by the New York Times, Time Out New York, the New Yorker and NPR, and Pitchfork praised the group for “condensing moments of focused beauty and quiet conviction from the pandemic distractions of modern life. (7.8)” NPR’s First Listen asks “Is Victoire’s music post-rock, post-mimimalist or pseudo-post-pre-modernist indie-chamber-electronica? It doesn’t particularly matter. It’s just good music.”
Victoire is currently working on its second studio album of new material as Missy simultaneously creates a new, extended work for the group in collaboration with visionary percussionist (and Wilco drummer) Glenn Kotche. This new work, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, will premiere in February 2014 at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival, along with works by Kotche and John Luther Adams.
In the past two years Victoire has performed all over the world, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Chicago’s Millennium Park, New York’s (Le) Poisson Rouge, Joe’s Pub, the Whitney Museum, the Cleveland Art Museum and the Bang on a Can Marathon. In 2011 they embarked on their first European tour with The National, Efterklang and Owen Pallett, and returned to Europe last Fall for a tour of Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands with My Brightest Diamond. They also recently performed in Sweden as part of the M.A.D.E. Festival and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) as part of the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival, curated by Bryce and Aaron Dessner. Victoire’s recordings have been included in several films, most recently in the award-winning documentary Detropia. Victoire is Missy Mazzoli (compositions, keyboards), Mellissa Hughes and Caroline Shaw (voice), Olivia De Prato (violin), Eileen Mack (clarinet), Lorna Krier (keyboards), and Eleonore Oppenheim (double bass).
For more information, visit www.victoiremusic.com or www.missymazzoli.com.
LOVE LIKE DELOREANS is the electronic collective consciousness of band members Lorna Krier, Derek Muro, and Peter Pearson. The band was born of synthesizer dreams and drum machine wishes. Drawing from the heady krautrock of bands like cluster to the infectious wish-i-could-stop-dancing grooves of 80s new wave, bubblegum, and disco, Love Like Deloreans creates a sound world that is somewhere between a submarine ride on europa and the best prom night ever.
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Shows
- January 25th-February 8thJD Samson & MEN TOUR!Jan 25 - Il Motore, MontrealJan 26 - The Garrison, TorontoJan 28 - Blind Pig, Ann ArborJan 29 - Beachland Tavern, ClevelandJan 30 - Radio Radio, IndianapolisJan 31 - The Empty Bottle, ChicagoFeb 1 – 7th Street Entry, MinneapolisFeb 3 - The Frequency, Madison WIFeb 4 - The Basement, ColumbusFeb 6 - Johnny Brenda’s, PhiladelphiaFeb 7- Pittsfield, MassachussettsFeb 8 - Great Scott, BostonFeb 9 – Space Gallery, Portland MaineFebruary 22nd, 2014 | New York, NY*CARNEGIE HALL world premiere*881 7th Avenue 6 PMMarch 6th - 12th, 2014JD Samson & MEN WEST COAST TOUR!March 6 - Bar Pink, San Diego
March 7 - Bootleg, Los Angeles
March 8 - The Chapel, San Francisco
March 10 - Holocene, Portland
March 11 - The Cobalt, Vancouver
March 12 - Chop Suey, Seattle.................
RECENT SHOWSJanuary 11th | Brooklyn, NYLORNA DUNE (lo bit landscapes)LUKE WYATT (L.I.E.S.)BRYCE HACKFORD (Prah)Trans-Pecos (Old Silent Barn)915 Wyckoff Ave:::January 9th | Brooklyn, NYDutchess of Brooklyn English presents:'MIASMISPHERE'' EP Release Party OfLORNA DUNE (Lo Bit Landscapes) - DJ Set
with
BOOKWORMS (L.I.E.S. / Confused House) - DJ Set
STEVE SUMMERS (L.I.E.S. / Confused House) - DJ Set
BRYAN KASENIC (The Bunker | Brooklyn) - DJ Set
CHASE SMITH (W.T. Records / Argot / Pittsburgh Tracks) – Live Set:::::::::December 14th | Brooklyn, NYJD Samson & MENKnitting Factory:::December 8th | Washington D.C.JD Samson & MENComet Ping Pong:::Decebmer 7th | Easthampton, MAJD Samson & MENw/ MOM BABY GODFlywheel Arts Collective:::Dec 6th, 2013 | Hudson, NYJD Samson & MEN & the SuzanSecond Ward Foundation:::November 29th, 2013 | Detroit, MIDIA presents Victoire7:00 & 8:30 pmDetroit Institute of Arts5200 Woodward Ave:::November 9th, 2013 | Austin, TXJD Samson & MENCheer Up Charlie'sChristeene, Gretchen's Disco:::October 26th, 2013 | Brooklyn, NYJD Samson & MEN Album Release PartyUnion Pool 9:00 pm484 Union Ave
Brooklyn, NY, 11211:::October 12th, 2013 | Milwaukee, WIPianist, Lorna Krier, performs Steve Reich'sDaniel Variations with the Present Music Ensemble.Marcus Center for the Performing Arts - Vogel Hall 7:30 pm929 N. Water St., MIlwaukee, WI::::::October 3rd, 2013 | Planet Earth, Milky WayLORNA DUNE "MIAMISPHERE" EP RELEASE:::
July 13th, 2013 | Austin, TX
Victoire @ Austin Chamber Music Festival
Antones 7:30 pm
2015 East Riverside Drive
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June 5th, 2013 | Brooklyn, NY
LORNA DUNE @ Silent Barn
w/Dither and Philip White:::
May 22nd, 2013 | NYC, NY
Gotham Chamber Opera and Missy Mazzoli Conspire
Le Poisson Rouge
Doors 6:30 pm, Show 7:30 pm
$15 standing room, $25 table seating
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May 5th, 2013 | NYC, NY
LORNA DUNE @ New Museum's Ideas City
w/Maria Minerva, La Big Vic, Erika Spring, Pearl Necklace:::
April 4th, 2013 | Brooklyn, NY
LORNA DUNE opens for DUNE
Movie night at Body Actualized Center
143 Troutman Street
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March 25th, 2013 | Mount Pleasant, MI
Victoire performs Central Michigan University
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March 20th, 2013 | Brooklyn, NY
LORNA DUNE // DAN CROLL // FEATHERS
Glasslands
21+, Doors at 8:30pm $10
TICKETS AT: http://ticketf.ly/13dGGRv
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February 26th, 2013 | New York, NY
MoMA Bang on a Can Performance
with Steve Reich and David Lang
"Consonant Abstraction" Exhibit
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February 22nd, 2013 | Cleveland, OH
Victoire at the Cleveland Museum of Art
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February 5th-17th, 2013 | Brooklyn, NY
"This Clement World" by Cynthia Hopkins
St. Ann's Warehouse, Dumbo
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January 23rd, 2013 | Riverside, CA
Victoire at UC Riverside with dancers/choreographers Dan Schuchart and Monica Rodero
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January 21st, 2013 | Los Angeles, CA
Victoire @ The Echoplex
w/Lucky Dragons & Wild up
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November 17th, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY
Victoire plays the Dither Extravaganza
INVISIBLE DOG 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn
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FRIDAY NOV. 9 VANCOUVER, BC- THE COBALT
JD Samson & MEN WITH MAGIC MOUTH!!!!
9pm Doors/ 10pm show / 19+
Tickets available at :
http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3135104
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THURSDAY NOV. 8 PORTLAND, OREGON- MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS
SIREN FESTIVAL
=MEN
=EMA
=La Sera
8pm Doors/ 9pm show | This show is 21+ only.
Tickets available at:
http://tiny.cc/bqaklw
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WEDNESDAY NOV. 7 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - CROCODILE
JD Samson & MEN NW Shows!
WITH MAGIC MOUTH and WISH BEARD
8pm / All Ages
Tickets Available at:
http://tiny.cc/xoaklw
October 24th, 2012 | New York, NY | 8 PM FREE!
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Victoire plays WNYC's New Sounds Live
at the World Financial Center Winter Garden with Vijay Iyer
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September 27th, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY
285 Kent @ South 1st Williamsburg
L-Bedford, G-Metropolitan, JM-Marcy
8 pm all ages
= LORNA DUNE
== PHONE TAG (ALBUM RELEASE)
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September 21st, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY
La Sala at Cantina Royal
58 N 3rd btw Berry & Wythe
☰ MR. JENKINS
☰☰ LORNA DUNE
☰☰☰ MORRIS MINOR
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September 5th, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY
Lorna Dune guest member of JD Samson's MEN
Music Hall of Williamsburg
66 North 6th Street
☰ MEN
☰☰THE RAPTURE
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August 15th, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY
285 Kent Ave @ South 1st Williamsburg
L-Bedford, G-Metropolitan, JM-Marcy
8pm $8 | all ages
☰ Gary War
☰☰ Forma
☰☰☰ Ami Dang
☰☰☰☰ Lorna Dune
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August 4th-5th, 2012 | Wassaic, NY
The Wassaic Project Summer Art Festival
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July 26th, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY
La Sala at Cantina Royal
58 N 3rd btw Berry & Wythe ~ FREE
∞ LIVE SETS by ∞
LORNA DUNE
FUTURE SHUTTLE
DIMENSIONS
DJ RON LIKE HELL
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July 25th, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY
Glasslands Gallery 289 Kent Ave
∞ LIVE SETS by ∞
Deidre & The Dark
Fast Years
The Living Kills
Lorna Dune
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July 14th, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY
You Are Here Festival aka THE MAZE
Secret Project Robot
∞ LIVE SETS by ∞
DAN FRIEL
GREGG FOX/GDFX
LORNA DUNE
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July 11, 2012 | New York, NY
Victoire special performance with Skeleton$!
River to River Festival
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May 31st, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY
NIHITI for ostland release party
285 Kent
∞ LIVE SETS by ∞
LORNA DUNE
MARIO DIAZ DE LEON
SYCORAX
NIHITI
MARK VERBOS
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May 18, 2012 | Troy, NY
Victoire @ Experimental Media Performing Arts Center EMPAC
as part of the Albany Symphony’s American Music Festival
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May 9-13, 2012 | Umeå, SWEDEN
Victoire performs on the MADE Festival
10:00 pm, Teatern KL
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May 4th, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY 6:00 pm
BAM Cafe Peter Jay Sharp Building- 30 Lafayette Avenue
Victoire performs as part of the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival
∞ LIVE SETS by ∞
WALKMEN
ST. VINCENT
ATLAS SOUNDS
THE ANTLERS
BEIRUT
ONEOHTRIXPOINTNEVER
more...
Featuring a special LORNA DUNE remix!
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April 14th, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY 10:00 pm
Shea Stadium
∞ LIVE SETS by ∞
ERIKA SPRING from Au Revoir Simone
SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE
LORNA DUNE
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March 24, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY
Lorna Dune plays a set to celebrate the opening of the Body Actualized Center
∞ LIVE SETS by ∞
JONAS REINHARDT (BK)
FUTURE SHUTTLE (BK)
FEATURELESS GHOST (ATX)
TEREKKE (BK)
LORNA DUNE (BK)
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March 15, 2012 | Dayton, OH
Victoire plays @ University of Dayton
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February 29th, 2012 | Brooklyn, NY
Lorna Dune opens for Twi the Humble Feather @ Manhattan Inn
622 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint
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January 22nd, 2012 | Los Angeles, CA
Lorna Dune & Love Like Deloreans play with Steve Vibes and Wavebreaker @ Bronson Bar
Bronson and Sunset Blvd.
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December 13, 2011 | Brooklyn, NY
Lorna Dune with Laurel Halo, Forma and Daniel Wohls' "Corps Exquis"
Glasslands Gallery - 289 Kent Ave
$10 tickets
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December 2, 2011 | Burlington, VT
Victoire plays @ The Flynn Center
153 Main Street
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November 29, 2011 | Paris, France
Victoire opens for My Brightest Diamond
Cafe de la Danse
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November 28, 2011 | Leuven, Belgium
Victoire opens for My Brightest Diamond
Stuk
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November 26, 2011 | Berlin, Germany
Victoire plays C3 Festival
Radialsystem
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November 25, 2011 | Essen, Germany
Victoire plays C3 Festival
Zollverein
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November 24, 2011 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
OT301
Victoire plays with Real Book (Oscar Jan Hooglund and Michael Moore)
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October 17, 2011 | Brooklyn, NY | 8:00 pm
Victoire at Imagine Science Film Festival
Bell House - FREE!
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July 7th, 2011| Brooklyn, NY | 8:00 pm
Love Like Deloreans + FORMA + Noveller + Phone Tag
Coco66 66 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn
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June 15, 2011 | Brooklyn, NY | 8:30 pm
Lorna Dune solo show w/ La Big Vic & Alias Pail!
Public Assembly, 70 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn
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May 22, 2011 | New York, NY | 8:00 pm
part of the Look and Listen Festival
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May 19, 2011 | Brooklyn, NY | 7:00 pm
Art opening: Katie Muffett with special musical guest, Lorna Dune
Cafe Orwell, 247 Varet Street, Brooklyn
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May 14, 2011 | Washington, D.C. | 8:00 pm
with NOW Ensemble
Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, Ground Floor, Independence Ave. and 1st Street, SE, Washington, D.C.
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April 17, 2011 | St. Paul, MN | 7:00 pm
with JACK Quartet
Part of the String Theory Festival
History Theater, 30 10th Street East, St. Paul, MN
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March 25th, 2011 | Brooklyn, NY | 7:30 PM
Lorna "Dune" Krier solo show with special guests Dream Massage (Stephen Griesgraber, Derek Muro, Peter Pearson) and bassist Eleonore Oppenheim. Also on the bill is singer Mellissa Hughes
First Presbyterian Church | 124 Henry Street
Music At First Series
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February 20th, 2011 | Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS
Cross Linx Festival
Victoire tour with The National, Buke and Gass, Efterklang, Owen Pallett, Sharon Van Etten, and more!
De Doelen
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February 19th, 2011 | Groningen, NETHERLANDS
Cross Linx Festival
Victoire tour with The National, Buke and Gass, Efterklang, Owen Pallett, Sharon Van Etten, and more!
De Oosterpoort
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February 18th, 2011 | Eindhoven, NETHERLANDS
Cross Linx Festival
Victoire tour with The National, Buke and Gass, Efterklang, Owen Pallett, Sharon Van Etten, and more!
Muziekgebouw
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February 17th, 2011 | Utrecht, NETHERLANDS
Cross Linx Festival
Victoire tour with The National, Buke and Gass, Efterklang, Owen Pallett, Sharon Van Etten, and more!
Vredenburg
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January 17th, 2011 | New York, NY | 8:00 PM
Victoire with Buke and Gass
Ecstatic Music Festival
Merkin Hall at Kaufman Center
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January 7th, 2011 | Brooklyn, NY | 9:00 PM
Lorna Dune solo show
Love Like Deloreans Special
Goodbye Blue Monday
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November 4, 2010 | Brooklyn, NY | 7:00 pm FREE
Smack Mellon Gallery, 92 Plymouth St, Brooklyn (DUMBO), NY
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October 2, 2010 | New York, NY | 7:30 pm
RECORD RELEASE PARTY!
with lots of special guests
$14
Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St, New York, NYOur debut CD, CATHEDRAL CITY, will be on sale for only $5 at this show!
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October 9, 2010 | Hartford, CT | 8:00 pm
Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St, Hartford, CT:::
October 13, 2010 | Baltimore, MD | 8:00 pm
Mobtown Modern Presents
Victoire and Nadia Sirota
The Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave, Baltimore, MD:::
October 15, 2010 | Providence, RI | 9:00 pm
with Blevin BlectumAS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI
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October 21, 2010 | Toronto, Canada | 8:00 pm
X-Avant Festival
with Nicky Lizée’s SaskPower and Joshua Abrams’ Natural Information SocietyThe Music Gallery, 197 John Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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September 11, 2010, 8:00 pm
HERE THERE BE DRAGONS
with NOW Ensemble and William Brittelle’s Television Landscape
Montclair State University
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August 7, 2010 | Pittsburgh, PA
with Matt Marks
8:00 pm
Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh PA
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August 8, 2010 | Columbus, OH
with The Little Death, Brian Harnetty, and The Wet Darlings
8:00 pm
BoMA, 583 E. Broad St, Columbus, OH
$10 adv./$12 at the door:::
August 9, 2010 | Chicago, IL
6:30 pmMillennium Park, 205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL
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August 10, 2010 | Bloomington, IN
with Pantree Owl
9:00 pmThe Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St, Bloomington, IN
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August 11, 2010 | Detroit, MI
with The Little Death, Lord Scrummage, and No Pussy for Old Men
9:00 pmThe Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID), 5141 Rosa Parks Blvd, Detroit, MI
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May 22, 2010 | Brooklyn, NY
Love Like Deloreans
NY Eye & Ear Festival
Knitting Factory:::
May 6, 2010 | Brooklyn, NY
Love Like Deloreans with Silver Apples and Burning Star Core
Visitation Rites at Coco 66
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Lorna Dune’s journey through sound - and arrival at the music on the"Miamisphere" EP - has been a rather unique one, and not one you’d expect to culminate in one of the most interstellar cosmic techno 12“s in recent memory.
Lorna Dune is the stage name of Lorna Krier, a virtuosic performer of “New Music” (think: classical music that is still being written), particularly in the Minimalist tradition, serving as a founder of several chamber style ensembles and a keyboardist/synthesist in numerous Brooklyn-based electronic music bands/collectives/groups of people making sound together.
Her work with composer Missy Mazzoli in the quintet Victoire on the record “Cathedral City” was named “One of the top 10 classical albums of 2010” by NPR and “one of 2010 most memorable albums” by The New Yorker magazine. She has worked extensively with composer & visual artist Tristan Perich, has performed Steve Reich‘s music for Steve Reich himself, has joined the Philip Glass Ensemble as a keyboardist in the past, as well as appearing on stage at the Whitney, MoMA, New Museum, Carnegie Hall, Millenium Park, and more throughout the US, Canada, and Europe.
While obviously rooted in the sound of techno (Lorna admits to a deep infatuation upon the discovery of the heavier side of the form—maybe particularly with the sounds of Stephan Bodzin and Andy Stott—in the years before this EP was written), Miamisphere manages to incorporate many of the structures and harmonic motivations that inform so much of the Minimalist tradition. On first listen, it sounds like a collection of amazing dancefloor anthems, but closer inspection reveals a depth of composition that is quite difficult to find in the interlocking worlds of techno, house, and other such forms. From the swooping synths and rapid arpeggiations of evolving chordal forms on the opener, “Plasmodium”, to the basically surefire hit of “Agnes Day” and the acid-influenced, lower-BPM, but perhaps even more complex tonal range of “Miamisphere”, the uplifting and emotional content of the music—not just sound—squeezes through.
Closing with a vintage “stoner house” remix by NYC‘s mysterious Terekke(L.I.E.S.) and issued on NIHITI‘s lo bit landscapes imprint, imbued with a sense of mystery that is equal parts “Dune” mythos and new Brooklyn scene, “Miamisphere” is not the kind of record you are likely to encounter often in your travels through electronic music.
LORNA DUNE- Miamisphere EP
Release date: October 3rd, 2013lo bit landscapes
Bandcamp Dazzleships Records
LORNA DUNE is the solo synthesizer project of Brooklyn-based experimental musician, Lorna Krier. Sidereal, her debut EP, was released on cassette and digital download in March 2012 through Dazzleships Records.
Lorna Dune has been described as a combination of minimalist synthpop and psychedelic dreamwave; a cosmic odyssey of analog synthesizers creating nebulas of ambient drones, poly-rhythmic clouds, soaring saccharine melodies, all supported by a perpetual motorik drive.
New Amsterdam Records Amazon iTunes eMusic
VICTOIRE is a new chamber-rock ensemble founded by composer/keyboardist Missy Mazzoli, featuring Olivia De Prato (violin), Eileen Mack (clarinet), Lorna Krier (keyboards) and Eleonore Oppenheim (double bass). This group, a stirring blend of winds, strings, keyboards and lo-fi electronics, performs Mazzoli’s distinct blend of dreamy post rock, quirky minimalism and rich romanticism, and was recently dubbed “an all-star, all-female quintet“ by Time Out New York.
Their debut album Cathedral City, released in 2010 on New Amsterdam Records, received high praise from classical and indie rock press alike. It was names one of 2010′s best classical albums by the New York Times, Time Out New York, the New Yorker and NPR. Pitchfork gave Cathedral City a 7.8, claiming that “Victoire condense moments of focused beauty and quiet conviction from the pandemic distractions of modern life.“ Since forming in 2008 they have shared the stage with Tortoise, Buke and Gass, Twi the Humble Feather, Redhooker and many others, performing at many top venues including New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, Chicago’s Millennium Park, Joe’s Pub, Roulette, the Whitney Museum, Galapagos, The Stone, and the Bang on a Can Marathon.
For more information, visit www.victoiremusic.com
Buy 12" Red Vinyl HERE Amazon iTunes eMusicLOVE LIKE DELOREANS' self-titled debut album bridges contrasting styles: Reich-like conceptualism meets heart-on-sleeve melodies while switched-on baroque pop crosses with Dinger-esque motorik drive. Unlike the heavily studio-created techno-pop of recent times, all of the keyboards on the record were performed by hand, bringing a human warmth to an often cold and calculated medium. Listeners gaze out the back window on a road trip through spacious electronic landscapes daydreaming of childhood casios under whispy analog synth clouds.
The group formed in fall of 2007 by Lorna Krier and Peter Pearson, who had moved to Brooklyn from Milwaukee to become involved in the New York experimental scene. There they met Derek Muro, a graduate from Manhattan School of Music and the magic began.
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BuyLorna Dune’s journey through sound - and arrival at the music on the "Miamisphere" EP - has been a rather unique one, and not one you’d expect to culminate in one of the most interstellar cosmic techno 12“s in recent memory. Lorna Dune is the stage name of Lorna Krier, a virtuosic performer of "New Music" (think: classical music that is still being written), particularly in the Minimalist tradition, serving as a founder of several chamber style ensembles and a keyboardist/synthesist in numerous Brooklyn-based electronic music bands/collectives/groups of people making sound together. Her work with composer Missy Mazzoli in the quintet Victoire on the record "Cathedral City" was named "One of the top 10 classical albums of 2010" by NPR and "one of 2010 most memorable albums" by The New Yorker magazine. She has worked extensively with composer & visual artist Tristan Perich, has performed Steve Reich‘s music for Steve Reich himself, has joined the Philip Glass Ensemble as a keyboardist in the past, as well as appearing on stage at the Whitney, MoMA, New Museum, Carnegie Hall, Millenium Park, and more throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. While obviously rooted in the sound of techno (Lorna admits to a deep infatuation upon the discovery of the heavier side of the form—maybe particularly with the sounds of Stephan Bodzin and Andy Stott—in the years before this EP was written), Miamisphere manages to incorporate many of the structures and harmonic motivations that inform so much of the Minimalist tradition. On first listen, it sounds like a collection of amazing dancefloor anthems, but closer inspection reveals a depth of composition that is quite difficult to find in the interlocking worlds of techno, house, and other such forms. From the swooping synths and rapid arpeggiations of evolving chordal forms on the opener, "Plasmodium", to the basically surefire hit of "Agnes Day" and the acid-influenced, lower-BPM, but perhaps even more complex tonal range of "Miamisphere", the uplifting and emotional content of the music—not just sound—squeezes through. Closing with a vintage "stoner house" remix by NYC‘s mysterious Terekke (L.I.E.S.) and issued on NIHITI‘s lo bit landscapes imprint, imbued with a sense of mystery that is equal parts "Dune" mythos and new Brooklyn scene, "Miamisphere" is not the kind of record you are likely to encounter often in your travels through electronic music. - 5 tracks
BuyLORNA DUNE is the solo synthesizer project of Brooklyn-based experimental musician, Lorna Krier. Sidereal, her debut EP, was released on cassette and digital download in March 2012 through Dazzleships Records. Lorna Dune has been described as a combination of minimalist synthpop and psychedelic dreamwave; a cosmic odyssey of analog synthesizers creating nebulas of ambient drones, poly-rhythmic clouds, soaring saccharine melodies, supported by a perpetual motorik drive.
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Eight Artists Remix Caroline Shaw
An 8-Week Series of World Premiere Remixes of Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning ‘Partita’
Last April, composer Caroline Shaw became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for her Partita – ana cappella composition written for the vocal octet Roomful of Teeth. Drawing on Baroque dance forms, contemporary vocal music and the drawings of artist Sol LeWitt, the music illuminates a powerful new voice of independent and contemporary classical music.
BOILER ROOM TV DEBUT: Terekke putting his signature stamp on ‘Miamisphere’ by Lorna Dune, from the excellent new EP forthcoming on Lo Bit Landscapes..
Lorna Dune Miamisphere EP
"Agnes Day"
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Bandcamp lornadune.bandcamp.com/album/miamisphere-epMIAMISPHERE EP released TODAY!!!
Artists: Lorna Dune, remixer Terekke (L.I.E.S.)
Available on vinyl & digital
FADER PREMIERE Tomorrow, Lorna Dune—the Brooklyn keyboardist maybe best known for the classical quintet Victoire, and with ties to Steve Reich and Philip Glass—releases her gorgeous instrumental synth pop EP Miamisphere. First, though, is this stomping, The Knife-y remix of JD Samson & MEN’s “Making Art,” sounding nothing like the actual single from the band’s sophomore album, LABOR, itself out October 22nd.Pretty amazing on all fronts.
First sneak peak at the upcoming Lorna Dune “Miamisphere” album. Straight to Ibiza.
- Oddball acid and out-there electronics: experimental keyboardist Lorna Dune with a selection of peculiar rhythms and squashed drum machines.
Liable to surprise you at any turn, Lorna Dune is a rather uncategorisable creature. As a virtuoso pianist, she’s the founder of several chamber and new music ensembles in New York, and contributes to the wider and weirder community of electronic artists making sound together with her synthesist sensiblities. On one hand you might find Lorna Dune playing with the Philip Glass Ensemble, or performing with Steve Reich, or even composing new music with Missy Mazzoli in the ensemble Victoire, and her minimal aesthetic has been informed by the best in the world. On the flipside, her take on weighty techno and dreamy synthscapes, both solo and in the trio Love Like Deloreans, displays an intuitive grasp of the kind of structure and arrangements that can send a dance floor into fits of ecstasy. An experimental keyboardist who is happy to go wherever her heart and ears tell her, redefining genres along the way, Lorna Dune inhabits a world of her own, and it’s a glorious thing to behold.
Lorna Dune’s journey through sound - and arrival at the music on the"Miamisphere" EP - has been a rather unique one, and not one you’d expect to culminate in one of the most interstellar cosmic techno 12“s in recent memory.
Lorna Dune is the stage name of Lorna Krier, a virtuosic performer of “New Music” (think: classical music that is still being written), particularly in the Minimalist tradition, serving as a founder of several chamber style ensembles and a keyboardist/synthesist in numerous Brooklyn-based electronic music bands/collectives/groups of people making sound together.
Her work with composer Missy Mazzoli in the quintet Victoire on the record “Cathedral City” was named “One of the top 10 classical albums of 2010” by NPR and “one of 2010 most memorable albums” by The New Yorker magazine. She has worked extensively with composer & visual artist Tristan Perich, has performed Steve Reich‘s music for Steve Reich himself, has joined the Philip Glass Ensemble as a keyboardist in the past, as well as appearing on stage at the Whitney, MoMA, New Museum, Carnegie Hall, Millenium Park, and more throughout the US, Canada, and Europe.
While obviously rooted in the sound of techno (Lorna admits to a deep infatuation upon the discovery of the heavier side of the form—maybe particularly with the sounds of Stephan Bodzin and Andy Stott—in the years before this EP was written), Miamisphere manages to incorporate many of the structures and harmonic motivations that inform so much of the Minimalist tradition. On first listen, it sounds like a collection of amazing dancefloor anthems, but closer inspection reveals a depth of composition that is quite difficult to find in the interlocking worlds of techno, house, and other such forms. From the swooping synths and rapid arpeggiations of evolving chordal forms on the opener, “Plasmodium”, to the basically surefire hit of “Agnes Day” and the acid-influenced, lower-BPM, but perhaps even more complex tonal range of “Miamisphere”, the uplifting and emotional content of the music—not just sound—squeezes through.
Closing with a vintage “stoner house” remix by NYC‘s mysterious Terekke(L.I.E.S.) and issued on NIHITI‘s lo bit landscapes imprint, imbued with a sense of mystery that is equal parts “Dune” mythos and new Brooklyn scene, “Miamisphere” is not the kind of record you are likely to encounter often in your travels through electronic music.
Release date: October 3rd, 2013
Lorna Dune- Miamisphere EP
A1. Plasmodium
A2. Agnes Day
B1. Miamisphere
B2. Miamisphere (Terekke remix)
Release Date: 2013-10-03
Catalog: LBL006
Formats: 12” / MP3
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- Resident Advisor | Lorna Dune | "Miamisphere" review (November 2013)NY Times | Lorna Dune | remix of composer Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer Prize winning work "Partita" (November 2013)The FADER | Lorna Dune | JD Samson & MEN Remix + Miamisphere EP sneak peak (October 2013)Ibizia-Voice | Lorna Dune | Miamisphere EP review (September 2013)Red Bull Music Academy | Lorna Dune | Train Wreck DJ Mix (September 2013)Village Voice | Victoire | Ecstatic Music Festival (Jan 2011)
Pitchfork | Victoire "Cathedral City" Album Review (December 2010)
The New Yorker | Victoire | 2010 Most Memorable Moments in Music by Alex Ross (December 2010)
Time Out New York | Victoire | The Best (and Worst) of 2010 (December 2010)
New York Times | Victoire | 2010 Holiday Gift Guide (November 2010)
Village Voice | Victoire | "A Song for Mick Kelly" Interview (November 2010)
Baltimore Sun | Victoire | Mobtown Modern Series (October 2010)
PopMatters | Victoire | Cathedral City video (October 2010)
Venus Zine | Victoire | Album Review (October 2010)
New York Examiner | Victoire (October 2010)
NPR First Listen | Victoire | Cathedral City (September 2010)
The Silent Ballet | Victoire | Band of the Week (September 2010)
WNYC New Sounds | Victoire | Indie Chamber Music- Live Performance (August 2010)
Time Out Chicago | Victoire | Millenium Park (August 2010)
Indie Handbook | Victoire | Cathedral City (August 2010)
Paste Magazine | Victoire | Free MP3 (August 2010)
Open Ceremony | Love Like Deloreans- Silver Apples (May 2010)
Arthur Radio | Love Like Deloreans interview (March 2010)
Tiny Mix Tapes | Love Like Deloreans album review
The Daily Contributor | Love Like Deloreans interview (October 2009)
Village Voice | Love Like Deloreans (July 2009)
Brooklyn Vegan | Love Like Deloreans | Rooftop Films Festival with Bachelorette, Class Actress (July 2009)
Impose Magazine | Love Like Deloreans (July 2009)
Time Out New York | Victoire (Jan 2009)
Hooves on the Turf | Love Like Deloreans (September 2008)
Sing Like Buildings | Alias Pail & Love Like Deloreans interview (April 2008)
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CONTACT
- LORNA DUNE: For booking inquiries, please email booking@lornadune.com.
VICTOIRE: For publicity and booking inquires please contact Missy Mazzoli [missy@missymazzoli.com]
