Kyle Vanderburg grew up in southeast Missouri where the Ozark foothills meet the Mississippi River valley. His electronic works often play with familiar sounds in new contexts (like duct tape that brings about the apocalypse or rockets powered by steam) and his acoustic works feature memorable melodies and a very fluid sense of time.

He lives in Fargo, where he's composer in residence at the Challey School of Music at North Dakota State University.

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You Can't Outrun Your Daydreams released on Muslab Planeta Complejo Vol. 1-2-3.
MUSLAB – Planeta Complejo is a selection of sound pieces from the MUSLAB exhibition. MUSLAB is an International Electroacoustic Music Exhibition that aims to bring together and disseminate the creation and sound exploration of artists from different countries around the world, promote the creative process and contemporary artistic communication, to bring new audiences closer to contemporary sound creation, and create an international community network through the development of different cultural activities, training in new technologies and sound art concerts.

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Creatures from the Black Bassoon released on Mind & Machine Vol 3.
MIND & MACHINE VOL THREE offers a new look into the Ravello Records series of electro-acoustic and electronic music lauded by critics as “interesting and captivating” (Cinemusical). This latest edition features an array of composers and sound-artists who offer his or her own striking exploration into the means by which technology can be used to alter time and form to create entirely new musical experiences.

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News

September-October Updates

11/02/2024 02:47 PM

I didn’t take a ton of interesting pictures the past two months–lots of teaching and organization and tech support. But here’s the interesting bits of the middle of the fall semester. I finished writing a piece for Bassoon and Electronics. This isn’t what it’s called now, but it was called this very briefly (more info […]

“Letters to the Poetry Editor” selected for performance in Michigan

10/10/2024 02:54 AM

From the inbox: Dear composers, Thank you all for your submissions to the Trans-Pacific Trio call for scores! We would like to extend a special thank you to those who composed music specifically for our ensemble. Part of our reason for this call for scores was simply the lack of repertoire for our instrumentation, and […]

June-July-August highlights

09/01/2024 05:26 PM

I’ve worked on some projects this summer (furniture, writing, parenthood), and I’ve been trying to stay away from social media, with varying results. So here’s a brain dump of things from this summer. I finally refinished the last of the six mission-style chairs I bought from the University of Oklahoma in the mid-2010s. And then […]

“Tape Piece” selected for La Hora Acusmática

05/30/2024 05:12 PM

I’m spending the week working on some publishing updates, getting some scores up and ready to distribute, and finishing up an orchestra piece, But meanwhile, from the inbox this week: Dear artist After an arduous task by our evaluation commission, the works listed below have been selected for our “Fourth Cycle of Virtual Concerts” of […]

Presenting on the creative process in Washington, DC in November.

04/19/2024 04:39 AM

From the inbox: Dear Kyle Vanderburg, We are happy to inform you that your presentation, “Debugging the Composer: designing a tool for self-reported composition processes” has been accepted to ATMI 2024 in Washington, D.C. November 7-9. Congratulations.  We ask that you 1) reply to this email confirming your intentions to present at the conference by May 15, and […]


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