Kyle Vanderburg’s music lurks somewhere in the Venn diagram between “this sounds familiar” and “what was that!?” Raised in southeast Missouri, where the Mississippi River valley meets the Ozark foothills, Kyle grew up listening to an eclectic mix of American hymnody, bluegrass, high school band music, and power tools. Sometimes this is obvious in his music.

He lives in Fargo, where he's composer in residence at the Challey School of Music at North Dakota State University. In addition to composing, he works on publishing and software projects that grow out of his teaching and artistic practice, focusing on infrastructure that makes creative work easier to sustain.