I love sound & music for its ability to break open a sense of the strangeness of being alive.
It defies its mimetic representation, enters dreams, shifts perception, defines memory, transmutes the rational. In 2 decades of spending much of my time living outside or in the streets of various cities, I have witnessed again and again power of sound to create shared experience across arbitrary social or geographic strata.
Sometimes I work in installation art, or write for chamber ensembles, or with my synth-pop band Loon Town. I do some film-soundtrack work, lots of field recording, experimental sets, and as always, my first love, songwriting. Modular synthesis demands much of my attention these days too.
BIO
DANIELLE SAVAGE is a composer/ songwriter who loves working in various folk traditions, field recordings, modular synth, and editing. With pieces ranging from multichannel fixed media, collaborative exhibitions, chamber works, to synth-pop, folk, and music for film, she has had work performed or had work presented at hundreds of venues, including: Ignite the Arts, San Francisco Tape Music Festival, Foro De Música Nueva, Visiones Sonoras, 60×60 festival, Montreal/ New Musics, ArtsWells, Lux Magna, and many more. After many years of traveling and playing festivals, bars, and street corners, she obtained a BFA in Composition and a BFA in Electroacoustics, both from Concordia University in Montréal, QC. These days, she is teaching music, learning the mandolin, prepping a new EP with her band Loon Town, gigging with Jeff Andrew and others, working on a quadraphonic installation, and twiddling knobs on her modular synth in the mountains of BC.
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