Ash Fure

 
Ash (Ashley) Fure's practice sits at the nexus of experimental music and experiential art. Described by the New Yorker as "staggeringly original" and "the most purely visceral music-theatre outing of the year," her full-bodied listening environments offer space for social reckoning through the political, poetic, and erotic multiplicities in sound.
A finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Music, Ash Fure also received a Lincoln Center Emerging Artists Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize in Music Composition, a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Prize, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant for Artists, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Columbia University.
Notable recent projects include Hive Rise: for Subs and Megas (2020), a migratory performance installation premiered at Berghain/CTM; Filament: for Trio, Orchestra, and Moving Voices (2018) commissioned by the New York Philharmonic; and The Force of Things (2017), an immersive installation opera that wrestles with the rising tide of eco-dread around us.
Ash Fure holds a PhD in Music Composition from Harvard University and is an Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College.

(external link : www.ashleyfure.com)
 
Ash Fure - Something to Hunt (book / CD with digital download)
2020
English edition
various
The first ever portrait album of Ash Fure's music, performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, Rebekah Heller, Brandon Lopez, and Nate Wooley. Released as a limited edition hardcover book with a digital download code included, featuring documentation from Ash Fure's immersive performances, commentary by the composer, an interview with Nate Wooley (Sound American editor), and contributions from Zachary Woolfe (New York Times), Steve Smith (New Yorker), and others.


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