Album Notes

Sun Rushing In: Sound Collage for Live Performance was introduced as a live performance act that began as a collaborative effort between Susan DeLeo and Lauri des Marais.

Sun Rushing In is a hybrid of Lauri's musique concrête sound design and Susan's acoustic guitar and vocals, creating an atmospheric melancholy and joy. Along with Susan's almost post-rock folk/country stylings on the six-string goes Lauri's progressively textured soundscapes, a haze of quiet low frequency aura projecting the listener into a state of neither/nor Zen.

For the live performance Lauri integrates a form of slow movement which she terms Movement So Still With Sound (similar in many respects to Butoh dance), fleshing the act out as an avant performance art session. While Sun Rushing In is mainly performance-based, Postdawn Nurseries Music also has the honor of offering the backing tracks to their performance as an exclusive CD, Sound Collage for Live Performance, making for a perfect listen for homesick or distant memory moods.

Sun Rushing In is a Low-Fi production by Lauri des Marais. copyright 2006 LdM Classical Technology BMI

"Lauri des Marais is on the cutting edge of experimental music." --American Composers Forum. Her compositions are primarily synthesized streams between shape, mood, and pattern-texture construction; this she refers to as Classical Technology, which creates Stories in Sound.

Lauri practices Deep Listening (TM) and has performed several times with Pauline Oliveros. Samples of Lauri des Marais’ work can be found at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music library, with special thanks to Pauline Oliveros.