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01. Laetitia Sonami - Sombre Dimanche
02. Laetitia Sonami - Why _Dreams Like A Loose Engine
03. Laetitia Sonami - Mona Lisa
04. Laetitia Sonami - Conversation With A Light Bulb
05. Laetitia Sonami - Manananggal - My Mouth Embodies Luxury
06. Laetitia Sonami - Manananggal - There Is No Guarantee That Goodness Is Possible
07. Laetitia Sonami - Manananggal - Speak Slowly, Dance With Me
08. Laetitia Sonami - Manananggal - All That Follows Is True, I Swear
01. Laetitia Sonami - Wilfred Wants You To Remember Us
02. Laetitia Sonami - What Happened II
03. Laetitia Sonami - A Historical Moment On A Line Between A And B
04. Laetitia Sonami - She Came Back, Again
ARTIST
TITLE
Dangerous Women: Early Works 1985-2005
FORMAT
2CD

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LCD 4011CD LCD 4011CD
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RELEASE DATE
7/11/2025

Laetitia Sonami was born in France, where she studied with Eliane Radigue. She moved to the United States to study electronic music, first with Joel Chadabe at SUNY Albany, then at Mills College where she was mentored by Robert Ashley and David Behrman. Laetitia Sonami is not only a gifted composer/designer of electronic music, but a compelling presence on stage. This collection of early works covers a period when Sonami transitioned from live mixing with cassettes, homemade analog synths and objects in the early eighties, to working with MIDI, MAX software and "off the shelf" synths and samplers. At the same time, she begins a long collaboration with Melody Sumner Carnahan, using her dramatic texts to evoke characters and behaviors to inhabit musically and visually. All but two of the works on this release utilize Sumner Carnahan's stories, and all but one use Sonami's famous invention, the lady's glove, an arm-length tailored glove fitted with movement sensors allowing the perform to fluidly control digital sound parameters and processing, as well as motors, lights and video playback. Sonami has since moved on to works for another of her inventions, the Spring Spyre, which applies Machine Learning to real time audio synthesis.