Jenna Lyle is a composer, vocalist, and performing artist from Carrollton GA. Based in Chicago, she has presented her own works as well as those of her colleagues throughout the U.S. and abroad, with performances recently by Chicago’s Spektral Quartet, the Riot Ensemble of London, Loadbang, and Northwestern University’s Contemporary Music Ensemble.  Jenna is also co-founder and co-administrator of Parlour Tapes+, a New Music cassette tape label and media/performance collective in Chicago.

Both compositionally and in performance, she specializes in the extended voice with a focus on human interaction, body awareness, and the unification of physicality with creative process for the sake of immediacy, complexity of expression, and intimate exchange.  Her style has been described as having a “leave-’em-wanting-more approach, offering music whose brevity and surface uncomplicatedness enhanced its ear-grabbing ability.”-Gavin Borchert [Seattle Weekly, Aug. 2010]

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