I'm fascinated by the idea of 'environmental music' - using environmental elements to choose or sculpt generative music. All of of these tracks were made using various plants as a source of bioelectricity - with small changes in this property being converted into note changes in a variety of synthesizers. Depending on the time of day, I then quantized the resulting notes into the scale of an appropriate Indian Raga. My training is in Indian Classical music, and I find it satisfying to use that structure to hold these compositions. It makes them even more 'contextual' in some way.

This is not science, this is art. I think of these pieces as sketches of some of the plants in my environment. All tracks were recorded live, in nature, in the northern Gulf Islands of British Columbia.

fairy creek alder in the evening (raag kafi)

Live From RCA Studio A

Love Love Love (Acoustic)

01 The Mistral Noir

The Sirin Choir - The Beatitudes By Vladimir Martynov Choir

If you want to see how I use the looping pedal, watch the video: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nDMNP1iYxc

'Dawn' is the first piece of music from a film by Meredith Monk: 'Book of Days'. It is originally written for vocal ensemble. But with some adjustments I am able to perform the music on my own, with the Boss RC-300 for looping. I use TC-Helicon VoiceLlive 2 for reverb and vocal doubling.

Dawn - Meredith Monk (cover with live looping vocals)

Expanding consciousness To be free through Vibration

Expanding

Sufjan Stevens - Concerning The Ufo Sighting Near Highland Illinois (Cover)

Leaving Los Feliz - Mark Ronson ft. Kevin Parker (Slowed)

performance, composition, arrangement, production, live looping | piano, voice, bass guitar, theremin 

Most edits are available on Bandcamp: http://laurastavinoha.bandcamp.com/

Dawn - Meredith Monk (cover with live looping vocals)

Laura Stavinoha