Heroine

Featuring

Pauline Kim Harris
Spencer Topel

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Recording & Production

This album was recorded at Sono Luminus Studios in Boyce, Virginia, from September 20-25, 2018, using DXD at 24 bit, 352.8kHz.

Performer Biography

Pauline Kim Harris has collaborated with a wide range of artists across classical, rock, and pop genres, including Jeff Beck, Lenny Kravitz, David Byrne, and Jonny Greenwood.

Performer Biography

Spencer Topel, an artist and designer, was a professor of music at Dartmouth College and was Artist-in-Residence at The Yale Quantum Institute, where he developed the first quantum musical synthesizer.

Compositional Technique

Deo, an acoustic-electronic transcription of Johannes Ockeghem's Deo Gratias, expands on Ockeghem's 36-part canon by creating a "canon of thousands" with melodies dissolving into resonance.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Pauline Kim Harris and Spencer Topel reimagined J.S. Bach's Chaconne and Johannes Ockeghem's Deo Gratias to search for meaning and connection to the greater, mysterious universe.

Compositional Technique

The Ambient Chaconne blends live and pre-recorded violin with electronics, using both human and machine transcription of Bach's Chaconne as its structural underpinning.

Performer Biography

Pauline Kim Harris, a Grammy™-nominated violinist and composer, was the youngest student ever accepted into the studio of legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz.