Michelle Lou, born in San Diego, California, composes mainly electro-acoustic music and has created large-scale sound installations.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Michelle Lou's music aims to activate the listener's perceptive capacities through the time domain, making the temporal aspect a space for the listener to transform the materials.
Composer Biography
Michelle Lou received a doctorate in composition from Stanford University and was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and an Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
Composer Biography
Michelle Lou performs and improvises on acoustic and electric bass, electric guitar, laptop, and various electronics.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Michelle Lou's music explores 'stasis-variation,' a mode where musical material undergoes limited transformation but appears to change and develop freely.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Another type of stasis-variation, termed 'combinatorial,' uses a limited set of materials from a vertical structure, reassembling and recombining them to create the work's form.
Composer's Artistic Vision
One type of stasis-variation in Michelle Lou's work, called 'sculptural,' stretches a single complex sound across the piece, revealing different aspects like a viewer moving around a three-dimensional object.
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