Sound Design, Composition &
Sonic Research
Exploring expression through music technology, while pushing the boundaries of sound’s healing potential.
TECHNICAL SOUND DESIGN
Specializing in SFX, synthesis, atmospherics, environmental sound design, interactive & adaptive music.Currently on software development teams participating in neuroscience research, exploration of health & wellness through music therapy. Lorna Dune is an acclaimed electronic musician, keyboardist, producer and sound designer. Known for her innovative fusion of electronic soundscapes and contemporary classical roots, her music career spans ambient, orchestral, electronic dance and experimental realms.
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PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
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Audio Director for SoundSelf - a full spectrum advanced technology that engages your voice in a biofeedback loop enhanced by vibro-acoustics and light therapy. A participatory sound bath that activates your senses and produces transpersonal states of consciousness. Currently in clinical studies with the goal of FDA approval.
The SoundSelf Team consists of industry experts and pioneers in digital therapeutics, VR, immersive technology, healthcare and psychedelic medicine.
Technical Sound Design, Applied Research, UX, Signal Chain Processing, Musical Composition, Synthesis using Wwise, Unity, and Imitone, a voice-to-MIDI technology. The software responds to the sound of your voice in real-time and drives interactive responsive bio-photic light glasses and sub-acoustic haptic hardware.
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Lorna is on a collaborative patent for a motion mixing iOS device with the Sensie Sonic Labs development team connecting mindful movement and gesture to interactive sound synthesis.
The aim of this technology was to encourage a place of playful curiosity and stillness as biofeedback is experienced from our movement and rhythm as the sound generators respond to smartphone sensor class data combinations indicating muscular tension or flow.
Instrument Design, Signal Chain processing, UX Design, core motion data analysis, implementation of open-source audio processing tools from AudioKit.
This product was premiered at the Festival of Consciousness in Barcelona, Spain in the Summer of 2022.
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Lorna has served on the music composition team at the software company Spiritune looking to combine principles of music therapy and neuroscience to help you feel great, focus better and relax easily.
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YouTooCanWoo is an artist-owned music and audio production creative company with a showcasing studio space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - serving the arts, entertainment and advertising industries worldwide.
Original Music Composition, Sound Design, Mix, Music Supervision & Licensing, Sonic/Audio Branding, and Mnemonic Design for commercials, television, film, documentaries, video games and more.
Organized special initiatives including website development, interactive web instrument design, marketing research and strategy.
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Lorna became one of only eight female-identifying Ableton Certified Trainers in the United States in 2020. She has offered presentations, demos and workshops teaching music production skills and uplifting others connecting them to their creative process. Collaborations included LP Giobbi's Femme House and other special initiatives fostering young women in electronic music production.
Teaching Artist for Found Sound Nation, a Brooklyn-based globally-minded nonprofit organization using music-making to connect people across cultural and societal divides, heading peace initiatives supported by the US Dept of State. She organized Street Studios for public engagement and community music making throughout NYC.
Sonic Arts Professor for Portland Community College (Oregon), developing a series of music technology courses and bridging pathways establishing easy access to college education for at-risk youth and marginalized communities in North Portland.
Currently based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she is offering one-on-one, in-person and online music production lessons, developing compositional and technical skills using Ableton Live and the Push controller, as well as co-running the Ableton Milwaukee User Group.
Connecting Somatics & Sound
Sensie uses smartphone sensors to respond to gesture, while measuring emotional state.
Mike Dannheim - sensie Founder, Tech InnovatorMax Maksutovic - Audio ProgrammingLorna Dune - Sound & Instrument DesignInteractive Web Design
David Gross First Child Studio - Web DevelopmentLorna Dune - UI/UX, Sound Design Music Licensing
Sound Design for film, tv, sonic branding & storytelling
On the Sound Design team at YouTooCanWoo Studio, she participated in major branding and sonic identity projects led by founding composer-engineer David Perlick-Molinari.StarzParamount+VIXLouie Schwartzberg & Vacheron Constantin
“The Anatomy of Beauty”
Music and Sound by YouTooCanWooExecutive Creative Director, Mix - David Perlick-MolinariCreative Director - Derek Muro Composers: Devin Johnson, Derek Muro, David Perlick-Molinari, Lorna DuneSound Design: Lorna Dune, Derek Muro, David Perlick-MolinariCommunity Engagement
NAMM & Found Sound Nation
“Make Music Day” Street Studios NYC
“Liable to surprise you at any turn, Lorna Dune is a rather uncategorisable creature. An experimental keyboardist who is happy to go wherever her heart and ears tell her, redefining genres along the way, Lorna Dune inhabits a world of her own, and it’s a glorious thing to behold.”
A performer of New Music and electronic composition.
LONG BIOLorna Dune is an electronic musician, keyboardist, producer and sound designer. Known for her innovative fusion of electronic soundscapes and contemporary classical roots, she has captivated audiences worldwide with musical work that spans ambient, orchestral, electronic dance and experimental realms.
Her career includes live performances with composers Missy Mazzoli, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Tristan Perich, Lukas Ligeti and others. As a remix artist, she has done commissioned reworks of music by Terry Riley, Max Richter, Caroline Shaw, East Forest, The Album Leaf and more. Lorna has performed on renowned stages, including Carnegie Hall, BAM’s Next Wave Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and Europe’s C3 and MADE Festivals, as a founding member of Victoire—an “all-star, all-female” (Time Out New York) electro-chamber quintet led by composer Missy Mazzoli. She has appeared as a guest keyboardist with Seattle Symphony, Alabama Symphony, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and has performed at groundbreaking events such as the Bang on a Can Marathon, Liquid Music Series, Ecstatic Music Festival, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra’s SoundBox series.
In 2020 she became an Ableton Certified Trainer, continuing her career as a compassionate music technology educator and teaching artist. She is currently a technical sound designer for software development teams conducting neuroscience research in sound’s role in health and wellness.
Early Background
A pianist and composer coming from the contemporary classical tradition of Minimalism, Lorna Dune has been turning heads since her foray into the world of electronic music production.
As a child raised in rural Wisconsin, her first instrument was a Casio SK-5 keyboard sampler her mother picked up from a thrift store. She started piano at age six, began composing by fourth grade, learned early music software Cakewalk and Fruity Loops in the 1990’s, and went onto college where she studied contemporary piano and organ performance.
In 2005, Lorna attended the Bang on a Can Summer Institute residency at MASS MoCA with guest composer Steve Reich, an experience that inspired her to move to New York City in her early 20’s. After leaving NYU’s master program to pursue gigs, she immersed herself in NYC’s vibrant experimental music scenes and started collaborating with young composers. At the same time, she was living in Brooklyn during the height of an indie electronic renaissance in Williamsburg and Bushwick - thriving DIY venues, radical dance parties, synthpop, futurism, nostalgia and the resurgence of electronic dance music.
Lorna also worked with notable organizations including the MATA Festival and Meet the Composer (now New Music USA), where she supported the creation and performance of new works nationwide. Additionally she collaborated with Found Sound Nation, a non-profit dedicated to fostering music collaboration across the world and around the block through peace and social justice initiatives.
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DJ Beginnings
Lorna Dune got her start djing at Bossa Nova Civic Club in Brooklyn, NY in the mid 2010's.
The second volume of Sisterjam's 12" vinyl release of Bushwick Is Melting B-side finds Lorna Dune putting her experiments with the piano to the side to focus on some celestial house moves with “Reflux” which will appeal to fans of Legowelt’s more star gazing moments.
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Ambient Electronic Music Producer
Lorna Dune’s music has been described as a combination of minimalist synthpop and psychedelic dreamwave; a cosmic odyssey of analog synthesizers creating nebulas of ambient drones, poly-rhythmic clouds, soaring saccharine melodies, supported by a perpetual motorik drive.
She was named as one of The Fader's 'Artists to Watch' in 2014.
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Miamisphere 12" EP - house, techno
“Lorna Dune’s journey through sound has been a rather unique one, and not one you’d expect to culminate in one of the most interstellar cosmic techno 12“s in recent memory.” - Lo Bit Landscapes
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Live electronic shows
As a keyboardist & electronic musician Lorna has played live solo and collaborative shows across the US, Canada and Europe. She's toured opening for chill-wave pioneers Small Black, The Album Leaf, East Forest, Emily Wells, Wye Oak and others and has been a synth player in a number of bands including JD Samson & MEN, Missy Mazzoli's Victoire, Portland's dreamwave Notel, composer-percussionist Lukas Ligeti's avant-improv project Notebook, and Brooklyn’s synthpop trio Love Like Deloreans.
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Anatta cassette - experimental, noise
Sounds are sculpted with analog synthesizers, collage loops, samples, and field recordings from Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge and the Green Mountain National Forest of Vermont. Thinking of her own body as a synthesizer, Lorna’s processed vocals blur where the voice ends and feedback begins.
JD Samson & MEN
Synthesizer / Keyboard / Backup vocals
MEN was a Brooklyn-based band and art/performance collective that focused on the energy of live performance and the radical potential of dance music. They spoke to issues such as trans awareness, wartime economies, sexual compromise, and demanding civil liberties.
After the band ended, Lorna has continued supporting artist JD Samson in their creative exploration of film score, queer activism, feminist and social liberation in various multimedia & performance art projects.
Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
Synthesizer / Keyboard Producer / Remix Artist
Celebrated American composer-performer Missy Mazzoli founded the “all-star, all-female” indie electro-chamber quintet Victoire.
Their record Cathedral City was named one of 2010’s best classical albums by Time Out New York, NPR, The New Yorker and The New York Times.
Followed by the critically acclaimed Vespers for a New Dark Age, a collaboration with Wilco’s percussionist Glenn Kotche. Vespers was released in 2015 on New Amsterdam Records along with a remix of her piece A Thousand Tongues by longtime collaborator Lorna Dune featuring guest vocalist Deidre Muro. The New York Times called Vespers for a New Dark Age “ravishing and unsettling”, and the album was praised on NPR’s First Listen, All Things Considered and Pitchfork.
In the past decade they have played in venues all over the world including Carnegie Hall, the M.A.D.E. Festival in Sweden, the C3 Festival in Berlin and Millennium Park in Chicago. Victoire returned to Carnegie Hall as part of the “Meredith Monk and Friends” concert, performing Missy’s arrangements of Monk’s work.
Chamber music - electro-acoustic - composition“The more keyboard patches Lorna Krier imports into the indie-classical chamber quintet Victoire, the richer, deeper and more mysterious their music grows.”
-Pitchfork