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Current collaborations include:
- My Ambient Nature Girl: check out our first song on Silber Records Christmas Compilation
- Silber Records compilations
- Sun Rushing In : sound collage for live performance with Susan DeLeo --> more info?
- performances with Kris Thompson
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Compilation: Silber Hearts Mom
Track: For Pauline Oliveros
interpretation : what I hear when I made this, is the positive reinforcement that Pauline gives to all she surrounds. The words I hear in the electronic sounds are “play, play, play … what do I do … play, play, play … you must believe, you must believe, just believe, just believe, believe … play, play, play”
Compilation: Silber on Silber
Track: Cover of Aarktica’s song Nostalgia = Distortion
Sun Rushing In is mainly a live performance act that began as a collaborative effort between Susan DeLeo and Lauri des Marais. This style of live performance is a project that Lauri has been evolving since she began performing her prerecorded music Stories in Sound live. Now it appears a cross between Cirque du Soleil (loosely and thematically) and Meredith Monk. Sun Rushing In is a hybrid of Lauri's musique concręte sound design and Susan's acoustic guitar and vocals, creating an atmospheric melancholy and joy. Along with Susan's almost post-rock folk/country stylings on the six-string goes Lauri's progressively textured soundscapes, a haze of quiet low frequency aura projecting the listener into a state of neither/nor Zen. Lauri integrates a form of slow movement which she terms Movement So Still With Sound (similar in many respects to Butoh dance), fleshing the act out as an avant performance art session. While Sun Rushing In is mainly performance-based, Postdawn Nurseries has the honor of offering the backing tracks to their performance as an exclusive CD, Sound Collage for Live Performance, making for a perfect listen for homesick or distant memory moods.