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Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing The Air With Music And Voices
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Today, the Spotlight shines on saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock.Ingrid's just released Purposing The Air (Pyroclastic Records, 2025), a double album that sets 60 brief poems by Erica Hunt to music through four different vocal-instrumental duos. It's an ambitious project that transforms Hunt's emotionally sharp koans into what Ingrid calls "a library of moods"—each piece capturing a different feeling, from the everyday to the searching.
The project began during Ingrid's master's studies, when she met Hunt through a friend and immediately connected with the poet's work. What started as writing for one duo became something much larger: a collection where poems float through musical space, each tailored for specific performers, such as Fay Victor, and Mariel Roberts, or Theo Bleckmann and Ben Monder.
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Fay Victor
Mariel Roberts
Theo Bleckmann
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