Kyle Vanderburg’s Innovative Work Featured on Electronic Masters Vol. 10 by ABLAZE Records
Fargo, ND – 12/19/2024 – Composer and sound artist Kyle Vanderburg is proud to announce the release of his fixed media work, Tape Piece, on Electronic Masters Vol. 10, which became available worldwide on November 29, 2024. The Electronic Masters series from ABLAZE Records is celebrated for highlighting cutting-edge electronic compositions and providing a global platform for exceptional artistry.
Chosen from submissions spanning the globe, Tape Piece stands out for its immersive sonic quality. ABLAZE Records’ Douglas Knehans remarked, “The piece has a great atmosphere, excellent realization, immense subtlety, and beautiful audio quality. Congratulations on a wonderful work!”
The Electronic Masters series has earned high praise as a platform for new and experimental works. Recent reviews have celebrated its “positively vibrant” contributions to contemporary electronic music, affirming its role as an essential series for modern listeners.
Vanderburg’s music, which often navigates the relationship between nostalgia and innovation, explores familiar sounds in unexpected contexts. Tape Piece uses the sounds of adhesive tape–masking, scotch, aluminum, packing, and duct–to transform a mundane office supply to a new sonic world.
About Kyle Vanderburg
Kyle Vanderburg (b. 1986) is a composer and sound artist based in Fargo, ND. His music blends nostalgia with innovative sonic worlds, often recasting familiar sounds in fresh and unexpected contexts. His work has been presented globally at festivals and conferences such as ICMC, SEAMUS, and NYCEMF. He is currently Composer in Residence at North Dakota State University’s Challey School of Music. Learn more at KyleVanderburg.com.
About ABLAZE Records
ABLAZE Records is a premier platform for emerging voices in contemporary classical and electronic music. Through its Electronic Masters series, ABLAZE provides a global stage for composers who redefine and expand the possibilities of sonic artistry. Learn more at AblazeRecords.net.
Availability
Electronic Masters Vol. 10 was released on November 29, 2024, and is available worldwide on streaming platforms including iTunes, Naxos Music Library, Amazon MP3, and Spotify, with physical copies distributed through ABLAZE Records.
This was in the works for most of the fall semester, but I can finally announce that my You Can’t Outrun Your Daydreams has been released on Volume 1 of MUSLAB’s Complex Planet album.
From back in September:
Kyle MUSLAB International Electroacoustic Music Exhibition is pleased to inform you that your work has been selected to participate in the Phonographic co-production – MUSLAB- Cero Records PLANETA COMPLEJO. This is an opportunity that we offer to people who have passed the curatorship process and who have chosen the option to participate in the selection for co-production CDs.
Your work as a composer offers an interesting perspective to our musical community, since it combines research and artistic creation proposing a personal aesthetic. Therefore, it fits perfectly with the general interests of the exhibition.
The COMPLEX PLANET exhibition includes a selection of different sound, video art and photographic works, where our different cultural identities are analyzed through the relationship between endemic social processes and globalization. The proposal is based on the fact that a fundamental characteristic, which enables evolution in nature, not only in biological contexts but also in social and cultural ones. Thus, both the endemic and global factors are a guarantee of evolution and adaptability that has to do with the importance of diversity.
Receive a cordial congratulations from the MUSLAB team.
Here’s a copy of the cover of the three-volume set:
I've finally updated the reference recording of Crosswinds (with new and improved patch!) from Cassie's faculty recital at NDSU in March. It's up on the composition page, as well as here:
I've just been informed that the Chicago-based Accessible Contemporary Music is scheduling Foi dans l'aletoire for one of their upcoming Weekly Reading sessions. I'll post more information as it is made available.