Embarking on a magical mystery tour starting Nov 17. Looking forward to making music in these wonderful places. It’s been an ecstatic experience to play with this incredible band, excited for more 💫 @thee_bass_witch (bass) @beth_goodfellow (percussion, vocals) @tashiwada (synth, bagpipe) @kennethjohngilmore (sound) Thank you again to @radha.v for the beautiful sun maze poster Photo: @camille_blake See you all soon 🌛 Julia 🪼 ticket links at juliaholter.com 🪼 Nov 17 Braga Nov 19 San Sebastián Nov 20 Madrid Nov 21 Barcelona Nov 22 Valencia Nov 24 Copenhagen Nov 26 Oslo Nov 27 Stockholm Nov 29 Luxembourg Dec 1 Paris Dec 2 Amsterdam Dec 4 Gent Dec 5 Bristol Dec 6 London Dec 7 Manchester Dec 9 Glasgow Dec 10 Dublin
Embarking on a magical mystery tour starting Nov 17. Looking forward to making music in these wonderful places. It’s been an ecstatic experience to play with this incredible band, excited for more 💫 @thee_bass_witch (bass) @beth_goodfellow (percussion, vocals) @tashiwada (synth, bagpipe) @kennethjohngilmore (sound) Thank you again to @radha.v for the beautiful sun maze poster Photo: @camille_blake See you all soon 🌛 Julia 🪼 ticket links at juliaholter.com 🪼 Nov 17 Braga Nov 19 San Sebastián Nov 20 Madrid Nov 21 Barcelona Nov 22 Valencia Nov 24 Copenhagen Nov 26 Oslo Nov 27 Stockholm Nov 29 Luxembourg Dec 1 Paris Dec 2 Amsterdam Dec 4 Gent Dec 5 Bristol Dec 6 London Dec 7 Manchester Dec 9 Glasgow Dec 10 Dublin
late to post but i had been wanting to thank everyone involved in this live score for Joan of Arc with @operanorth, bc it was really a combined effort of so many people. in 2017, i was kindly invited by Felix Salazar at Unsilent Cinema to do a live score to Dreyer’s Passion of Joan of Arc. i asked some of my favorite musicians to work with—@dynamacabre, @coreyvogeln, @devil_hoof, @tashiwada—to perform it with me in downtown LA. so grateful that Jo Nockels heard about this and thought to commission a new live score for Joan of Arc written for the Chorus of @operanorth. she stayed with the idea for 2 years through the pandemic, and i’m lucky she trusted me, with my lack of experience working with a chorus. I was guided along the way by Chorus Master Oliver Rundell, and he had it set so that by the time we arrived in the UK, Opera North already knew the music. i cried when i heard their voices for the first time it was so beautiful lol. for working with chorus, i thought to add a blend of breath and voice –voice through trumpet, breath through bagpipe, voice through contact mic. To have musicians @sarahbellereid, @coreyvogeln, and @tashiwada on this project was really special–they bring the magic. much gratitude to @benjaminwoodgates for his focused help with arrangement for this chorus to set to picture, along with @ashilmistry, who, with Ben, beautified my ugly score very quickly and smoothed things out with copyediting as needed for the standards of Opera North. balancing time code with notation and timing it all out was a big undertaking for me–it was my first time doing hours of basic arithmetic to make a score lol somehow conductor @hughbrunt was able to coordinate this all together in the most beautiful way, and working him was so wonderful. he made it seem easy bc he is really good at what he does, but i am sure it was not haha Thank you to Jamie Saye for his wonderful job with the sound, and for John Haynes who thankfully carefully recorded both concerts Thankful as well for Kathryn Gasic for coordinating everything, and to Dominic Gray as well for all of his support
obviously a lot of people know about this already but @moca has had this great and expansive show of Simone Forti’s work that spans decades, and this weekend is the last chance to see it, so just wanted to highly recommend going if you hadn’t yet because it’s very special and inspiring. the use of the space is so thoughtful, it captures the spirit of her work so well. an incredible thing about this show is they have been having regular performances of Simone’s Dance Constructions for months. In the first video here, Simone is watching a beautiful performance of Huddle, which was moving to me
obviously a lot of people know about this already but @moca has had this great and expansive show of Simone Forti’s work that spans decades, and this weekend is the last chance to see it, so just wanted to highly recommend going if you hadn’t yet because it’s very special and inspiring. the use of the space is so thoughtful, it captures the spirit of her work so well. an incredible thing about this show is they have been having regular performances of Simone’s Dance Constructions for months. In the first video here, Simone is watching a beautiful performance of Huddle, which was moving to me
obviously a lot of people know about this already but @moca has had this great and expansive show of Simone Forti’s work that spans decades, and this weekend is the last chance to see it, so just wanted to highly recommend going if you hadn’t yet because it’s very special and inspiring. the use of the space is so thoughtful, it captures the spirit of her work so well. an incredible thing about this show is they have been having regular performances of Simone’s Dance Constructions for months. In the first video here, Simone is watching a beautiful performance of Huddle, which was moving to me
obviously a lot of people know about this already but @moca has had this great and expansive show of Simone Forti’s work that spans decades, and this weekend is the last chance to see it, so just wanted to highly recommend going if you hadn’t yet because it’s very special and inspiring. the use of the space is so thoughtful, it captures the spirit of her work so well. an incredible thing about this show is they have been having regular performances of Simone’s Dance Constructions for months. In the first video here, Simone is watching a beautiful performance of Huddle, which was moving to me
Alex Temple’s “Behind the Wallpaper” is out now, performed by @spektralquartet and me. Her writing here is so beautiful and the arrangement so idiomatic for the strings and my voice (have never had someone write so meticulously for my voice). These songs always move me very much to sing and I know they will move listeners. Alex was writing this piece while going through a gender transition, and, while the songs live in a wild space far beyond autobiographical experience, her poetic exploration of feelings of otherness and surreality will resonate with so many. I’m excited for the opportunity for more people to experience this important and timeless work. Posted @withregram • @spektralquartet BEHIND THE WALLPAPER IS OUT!!! This album has been a true labor of love, and is so close to our hearts. We are immensely grateful for Alex, Julia, Bill, Zach, Greg, Cat, Sandy, Natalie, for the incredibly generous donors and supporters of our campaign, and for all of our stalwart listeners and fellow music weirdos💜 This is music we believe deserves to be out in the world and that we hope many people will find connection with. Please give it a listen on your streaming platform of choice, share it widely, and let us know what you think! Love, The Spektral
Alex Temple’s “Behind the Wallpaper” is out now, performed by @spektralquartet and me. Her writing here is so beautiful and the arrangement so idiomatic for the strings and my voice (have never had someone write so meticulously for my voice). These songs always move me very much to sing and I know they will move listeners. Alex was writing this piece while going through a gender transition, and, while the songs live in a wild space far beyond autobiographical experience, her poetic exploration of feelings of otherness and surreality will resonate with so many. I’m excited for the opportunity for more people to experience this important and timeless work. Posted @withregram • @spektralquartet BEHIND THE WALLPAPER IS OUT!!! This album has been a true labor of love, and is so close to our hearts. We are immensely grateful for Alex, Julia, Bill, Zach, Greg, Cat, Sandy, Natalie, for the incredibly generous donors and supporters of our campaign, and for all of our stalwart listeners and fellow music weirdos💜 This is music we believe deserves to be out in the world and that we hope many people will find connection with. Please give it a listen on your streaming platform of choice, share it widely, and let us know what you think! Love, The Spektral
Alex Temple’s “Behind the Wallpaper” is out now, performed by @spektralquartet and me. Her writing here is so beautiful and the arrangement so idiomatic for the strings and my voice (have never had someone write so meticulously for my voice). These songs always move me very much to sing and I know they will move listeners. Alex was writing this piece while going through a gender transition, and, while the songs live in a wild space far beyond autobiographical experience, her poetic exploration of feelings of otherness and surreality will resonate with so many. I’m excited for the opportunity for more people to experience this important and timeless work. Posted @withregram • @spektralquartet BEHIND THE WALLPAPER IS OUT!!! This album has been a true labor of love, and is so close to our hearts. We are immensely grateful for Alex, Julia, Bill, Zach, Greg, Cat, Sandy, Natalie, for the incredibly generous donors and supporters of our campaign, and for all of our stalwart listeners and fellow music weirdos💜 This is music we believe deserves to be out in the world and that we hope many people will find connection with. Please give it a listen on your streaming platform of choice, share it widely, and let us know what you think! Love, The Spektral
in November, I’m excited (after years of delay due to Covid) to premiere a new live score for the classic Dreyer film “The Passion of Joan of Arc”, written for the Chorus of @operanorth featuring special guests @sarahbellereid, @tashiwada and @coreyvogeln 2 UK shows (link in bio for tickets): Nov 23 Huddersfield Music Festival @hcmfuk Nov 25 London @barbicancentre I always love to be at the Barbican, and I’ve heard nice things about Huddersfield Music Festival for years so excited to experience it finally 🐉🍄🐉 a little about the music: In making music to accompany this incredible film, there is so much beauty and space given to the composer and yet I was hoping not to take advantage of that space too much; I wanted to keep the mystery. I was inspired by an essay by Anne Carson called “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent”, in which she explores the untranslatability of the sublime—how, throughout Joan’s trial, the judges are trying to forcibly extricate some kind of material from Joan to manipulate into their narrative, while Joan stays true to the inexplicability of her spiritual experience with vague statements like, as Carson highlights, “The light comes in the name of the voice”. The live score began centered on my voice through a contact mic on my throat, the words rendered unintelligible, retaining the pitch yet tongue-less. But suddenly I had an entire opera chorus (Chorus of Opera North) to work with, so I had to figure out a way to bring out that ‘sublime unintelligibility’ with a group of operatic voices as well. Alongside some notable quotes of Joan’s from the film to set to music, I also wanted to set and adapt a couple of medieval chants relevant to Joan’s story and/or time (“Te Deum” and “Ave Maris Stella”), and so throughout we hear these chants in various forms—sometimes only as very long stretched-out and isolated syllables decapitated from their word context, and sometimes sung more conventionally. Looking forward to performing this thing which I don’t know how it will turn out but I’m pretty sure it will be wild and weird! Very grateful for Opera North Chorus for this opportunity 🪐🪐🪐
very excited about this culmination of a lot of work @weareumaw has been doing with @reprashida to create a new streaming royalty that pays musicians fairly, featured and non-featured musicians on recordings. thank you to Rohan Gray and Don Franzen for the legal guidance as well. repost: @weareumaw so thrilled to publicly share what we’ve been working on with @reprashida – a Congressional Resolution to create a new royalty for streaming music and GET ARTISTS PAID! We need your help to make this new royalty a reality. Link in our bio and story to a form to tell your Representative to support Rep Tlaib’s Resolution, as well as a link to this amazing article with @rollingstone where you can learn more about the royalty, our work with Rep Tlaib, and why a new royalty would drastically change how artists and musicians are paid for their labor. #umaw #rashidatlaib #streaming #unionofmusiciansandalliedworkers #rollingstone #solidarity #music
poems from Mosab Abu Toha’s 2022 book “Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear” @mosab_abutoha and news from yesterday
poems from Mosab Abu Toha’s 2022 book “Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear” @mosab_abutoha and news from yesterday
poems from Mosab Abu Toha’s 2022 book “Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear” @mosab_abutoha and news from yesterday
a few months ago, I had a lot of fun in the studio recording this beautiful music I have been performing for years written by @alextemplemusic for @spektralquartet and me. “Behind the Wallpaper” is such a magical song cycle—I’ve personally been really inspired by Alex’s fluid and romantic string writing and the surreal poetry. I also have never had someone write meticulously for my voice so it’s been a special experience. This quartet is incredible. So glad to be a part of this with @spektralquartet and also loved working with producer William Britelle and mixing engineer Zach Hanson The record comes out March 3. Link in bio to hear the first single “Tiny Holes” 🌊🪐🌊 ——- Composed by Alex Temple, whose gender transition inspired this stylistically unpredictable and mysterious new work, Behind the Wallpaper is “atmospheric with ambiguous tonality, drawing chuckles along with hushed curiosity.” (The New York Times) “Julia Holter’s music has a stylistic fluidity and vulnerability that made her the perfect choice for this dreamy, unsettling story,” says Alex Temple. “The piece tells the tale of someone undergoing a mysterious transformation and ultimately finding a home in another world, superimposed on our own but invisible to the uninitiated. Many of the dreamlike images in the songs were inspired by my experience with gender transition. But my hope is that the story will feel familiar to anyone who has ever felt alienated from the broader culture.” Temple’s story felt not only familiar to Spektral Quartet but also vital at a time when “othering” is on the rise—when trans stories remain largely absent from concert stages. While the ensemble disbanded last June (they played a farewell concert in their hometown of Chicago), Spektral still plans to release three more albums, and the group views Behind the Wallpaper, the first in the series, as essential to their legacy.
some pleasing cacophony for you in case you forgot that there is one more day to vote. LA, note under-discussed Proposition 28 to help save arts and music in public schools. Thank you
some pleasing cacophony for you in case you forgot that there is one more day to vote. LA, note under-discussed Proposition 28 to help save arts and music in public schools. Thank you
was so happy to be a part of the beautiful Beverly Glenn-Copeland “Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined” album. here is my remix of Glenn-Copeland’s “Winter Astral” (link in bio). i remember there was a lot going on in my life/the world in general (2020) when I was working on this, there was a lot of isolation, and hearing his warm buzzing ecstatic synths all the time in my ears was very healing Video animation by Leslie Supnet Fastest Star (“Winter Astral” remix) Hear me hear me dreaming fastest star take me take me from the city fog I can feel her breathing on her own Why stop all the beaming light Show me the night New heart, winter astral (i waited to announce when this came out a while back bc there was a random technical issue w the audio on my track and it had to be delayed but here we go finally!)
tonight is the first of a pair of UK shows of a live score for Joan of Arc i wrote for the 36-voice Chorus of @Opera_North featuring @sarahbellereid @tashiwada @coreyvogeln tonight 23/11 Huddersfield Fest @hcmfuk and Fri 25/11 in London @BarbicanCentre Ticket link in bio
@tashiwada and I will be performing new music of his in NY this Saturday Aug 13 at Public Records @publicrecordsnyc https://ra.co/events/1558833
special new release of a live performance of Michael Pisaro-Liu’s singular collection of songs “Tombstones” that I’ve loved performing over the years @editionsverde Cover artwork for “Tombstones: Live in Brooklyn” — available August 5— composed by @mpisaroliu and featuring @juliaholter on voice. Pre-order via editionsverde.bandcamp.com or editions-verde.com The full ensemble is Jason Brogan, director and electric guitar Tucker Dulin, trombone Julia Holter, voice Andrew Lafkas, bass Katie Porter, clarinets Sam Sfirri, melodica and piano Ron Wiltrout, keyboard, percussion, and voice Artwork by @genevievelutkin #tombstoneslive
“Flame of Perfect Form” 🔥 @tashiwada was very fun to sing on this great song w mesmerizing performances by @thee_bass_witch @coreyvogeln @catfact repost from @tashiwada : Ahead of the release of my new album What Is Not Strange? this Friday, we share one final vessel, “Flame of Perfect Form,” a channeling of ecstatic energy, dense and bristling with life. In the words of Philip Lamantia (the patron saint of my album), “that the Being of poetry erupts out of nerves emotions skeleton muscles eyes spirits beasts birds rockets typewriters into my head and I see, the weir pivot, at that point all is Evidence Clarity Incomprehension Flame of Perfect Form and Chaos.” Ezra Buchla, electric viola Corey Fogel, drums Dev Hoff, double bass Julia Holter, vocals Tashi Wada, synth Thank you for listening. What Is Not Strange? is out everywhere in full this Friday via @rvngintl Photo by Tashi Wada
Some music from the “Words/non-words” workshop i led last month @camp_fr 🦷💋👅 Posted @withrepost • @annamurraymusic Next Kontakt on CAMP Radio is next Tues 25th at 13.00 CEST / 12 Ire/UK / 20.00 JST 25/10/2022 – Words and Non-Words Words, nonsense, vocal improvisations, automatic writing and meditations – recordings at and by the participants of the ‘Music, Words and Non-Words’ course at CAMP, led by Julia Holter. Featuring recordings of class activities, and work created in response – and some hints of the sounds of Aulus-les-Bains Tracklist: Pyrenean Normal Music Group: Exquisite Corpse Score pt1 Anna Clock: Hard Things: Things That Are Hard Group exercise: Happy Birthday 1 Inês Malheiro: second sleep Jayne Dent: A Meditation Group exercise: Happy Birthday 2 Hayley Jenkins: Fragments 1. Breathe Helene Greenwood: aulus spa guide Group exercise: improvisation on Pauline Oliveros ‘One Word’ Anna Murray: Babble Josh Herring: Nothing More Perfect (live) Julia Holter with group: MeYou (live) Jevin Almazan with Lucy Duncan: Bioregrettable Group exercise: Happy Birthday 3
