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Vanessa Lann

About Me

Vanessa Lann (b. Brooklyn, New York, USA / 1968) has been living and working in The Netherlands since 1990. She is a composer and pianist and enjoys working in a wide variety of media and styles. Her music is performed throughout the world, and it can be found on a number of cd's made by fantastic musicians from Holland and elsewhere. She's also a professor at Webster University in Leiden, where her courses involve eastern philosophy and music, mathematics and music, and breaking down boundaries in multi-media performance. See "influences" for more!

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Member Since: 26/03/2007
Band Website: www.lann.dds.nl
Influences: Vanessa Lann's music doesn't fall easily into one category; while it would most likely be described as "classical," it is usually experienced in settings outside of the traditional concert hall and is often combined with other media in unusual contexts. In line with her affinity for Eastern ways of listening to and engaging with sound and silence, Lann constantly tries to reinvent the rituals normally associated with the sharing of music in a live setting. Ceremony, humor, meditation and theater play a part in her constant experimentation with extremes, her exploration of one's understanding of Time and Memory, and her preference for questioning, rather than telling, when it comes to creativity.
Sounds Like: The music is about challenging performance stereotypes and expectations: it can sound like "everything you've heard before," or "nothing you've ever dreamt of".
Record Label: Wergo, Donemus, Attacca, BV Haast
Type of Label: Major

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