Kara-Lis Coverdale, also known as K-LC, is a Canadian composer, musician, p… Read Full Bio ↴Kara-Lis Coverdale, also known as K-LC, is a Canadian composer, musician, producer, based in Montreal. Coverdale is known equally for her piano, organ, and keyboard work as she is for her experimental electronic projects; often her work integrates the two, blurring the lines between traditional composition and research-based modernism.
Coverdale began studying music and piano at age 5. An improvisational virtuoso at a young age, she had composed and performed her own music before age 10.Her mother is an Estonian visual artist and her father a builder and entrepreneur. She was a competitive pianist until she went to Music school at Western University, where she studied piano, composition, and musicology with Gwen Beamish, Omar Daniel, David Myska, and Jay Hodgson. Canadian pianist Ann Southam presented her with the promising young artist award at at The Contemporary Music Showcase in Toronto. At Western Coverdale became captivated by the practice of electroacoustic music and began integrating electronics and digital processes into her work. The Kurzweil K2500 was the first sampler she ever worked with. Her Masters thesis is a study of timbre and realism in recorded music which addresses how "reality" is constructed through sound design and recording technology.
Since age 13, Coverdale has been primary organist and music director at several churches across Canada. Sacred music is an influence in her acoustic composition work, as is Estonian choral and folk music. She claims to be a saturationist, and says Napster has been her biggest influence.
Coverdale moved to Montreal in 2010, and took a new position as organist at St. John's church in NDG. Since 2011, Coverdale has collaborated live and in studio with electronic composer Tim Hecker, most notably on his 2013 album Virgins.[5] She has also collaborated with the digital information artist LXV (David Sutton). In 2012 she self-released a series of solo piano pieces called Triptych. In 2013 she composed music for Wind Controller called "Conversion Music" which was premiered at LMCML by Montreal clarinetist Suzu Enns. A rework of that piece appears as X4EWI" on Coverdale's 2015 solo album Aftertouches, released by Sacred Phrases in March, 2015. Coverdale is also a frequent collaborator with the writer Kara Crabb.
A480
In 2013 Coverdale released a series of vocal pieces called A 480 that "index the nature of the voice in the age of data." A 480 is accompanied by .nfo scores (an .nfo is a hacker scene release release that accompanies a crack), which contain 'information about the sources of the A 480 audio texts, transformation procedures used to arrange and compose them into their present form, and keyword routes of re-creation." She calls them "bad scores" in the sense that they "do not offer performer the clearest instructions to produce an exact re-creation of the composer's authoritative creation... an .nfo score is more like a treasure map than an inclusive set of rules." The virtual chorales of A 480 comprise compositions of actual recorded singers that have been unpersonally sourced, downloaded, then disembodied, disfigured, and displaced over forty times, then arranged into temporally affected four-part fugues. "The pre-composed voices are curationally divided into short loops of different lengths in MAX and played at different speeds across 4 different channels. Slight temporal variations fade in and out over time in constant flux, occasionally pausing for immersion in a pulse chamber before it moves onto another. The length of the looped samples are adjusted one at a time— lengthened and shortened, and at times switched out altogether, to reveal how seemingly minute temporal variations have impactful effects on overarching rhythm, melody, and energy."
Aftertouches
Aftertouches is often described as part of a new school of enterprising electronic artists that lean heavily into electronic adventuring, both conceptually and sonically, "as if to experiment with the very building blocks of musical beauty... to speak a language that not everyone speaks yet" (Adam Harper, The Fader).Compared to its experimentalist contemporaries, Aftertouches approaches experimentalism with a more symphonic calculation and leaning towards composition, weaving both physical and technological realms to creates a series of celestial modern classical miniatures. The Wire describes Aftertouches as "...the textless, fleshless voice-keyboard, the lingering foggy sublime of CPU-washed tone granules, the modular serialism of object oriented processes. The various parts are often starkly separated in colour and harmony, but the overall shape flows on smoothly either still learning from and resolving its experiences, or in thrall to an aesthetic that's beyond the horizon" (The Wire, issue 376, June 2015).For Adhoc, Neil Lord writes "The sweeping moments of beauty are balanced with stabs of electronic grit: an acrylic portrait of a Cronenberg-esque organism, morphing, half human, half machine."Aftertouches was named one of the best 25 records of the first half of 2015 by Adhoc, and was called "a true masterwork from a still young artist" by Bobby Power in Decoder.
Discography
Albums
A 480 (2014, Constellation Tatsu)
Aftertouches (2015, Sacred Phrases)
Sirens (with LXV) (2014, Umor Rex)
EPs
Triptych for Solo Piano (2012, Gate)
Scoring Work
Royal Jelly (2014) by Kara Crabb.
The Reproductive Life Cycle of a Flower (2015) by Kara Crabb.
Session, Production, Mixing Work
Virgins - Tim Hecker - 2013, Kranky (Keyboards and Piano)
Massacred for Gold -Tim Hecker, 2013, Dir. Jennifer Anderson and Vernon Lott) (Keyboards for Film Score).
Patterns of Excel - Lee Bannon, 2015, Ninja Tune (Keyboards and Piano, Arrangem
Coverdale began studying music and piano at age 5. An improvisational virtuoso at a young age, she had composed and performed her own music before age 10.Her mother is an Estonian visual artist and her father a builder and entrepreneur. She was a competitive pianist until she went to Music school at Western University, where she studied piano, composition, and musicology with Gwen Beamish, Omar Daniel, David Myska, and Jay Hodgson. Canadian pianist Ann Southam presented her with the promising young artist award at at The Contemporary Music Showcase in Toronto. At Western Coverdale became captivated by the practice of electroacoustic music and began integrating electronics and digital processes into her work. The Kurzweil K2500 was the first sampler she ever worked with. Her Masters thesis is a study of timbre and realism in recorded music which addresses how "reality" is constructed through sound design and recording technology.
Since age 13, Coverdale has been primary organist and music director at several churches across Canada. Sacred music is an influence in her acoustic composition work, as is Estonian choral and folk music. She claims to be a saturationist, and says Napster has been her biggest influence.
Coverdale moved to Montreal in 2010, and took a new position as organist at St. John's church in NDG. Since 2011, Coverdale has collaborated live and in studio with electronic composer Tim Hecker, most notably on his 2013 album Virgins.[5] She has also collaborated with the digital information artist LXV (David Sutton). In 2012 she self-released a series of solo piano pieces called Triptych. In 2013 she composed music for Wind Controller called "Conversion Music" which was premiered at LMCML by Montreal clarinetist Suzu Enns. A rework of that piece appears as X4EWI" on Coverdale's 2015 solo album Aftertouches, released by Sacred Phrases in March, 2015. Coverdale is also a frequent collaborator with the writer Kara Crabb.
A480
In 2013 Coverdale released a series of vocal pieces called A 480 that "index the nature of the voice in the age of data." A 480 is accompanied by .nfo scores (an .nfo is a hacker scene release release that accompanies a crack), which contain 'information about the sources of the A 480 audio texts, transformation procedures used to arrange and compose them into their present form, and keyword routes of re-creation." She calls them "bad scores" in the sense that they "do not offer performer the clearest instructions to produce an exact re-creation of the composer's authoritative creation... an .nfo score is more like a treasure map than an inclusive set of rules." The virtual chorales of A 480 comprise compositions of actual recorded singers that have been unpersonally sourced, downloaded, then disembodied, disfigured, and displaced over forty times, then arranged into temporally affected four-part fugues. "The pre-composed voices are curationally divided into short loops of different lengths in MAX and played at different speeds across 4 different channels. Slight temporal variations fade in and out over time in constant flux, occasionally pausing for immersion in a pulse chamber before it moves onto another. The length of the looped samples are adjusted one at a time— lengthened and shortened, and at times switched out altogether, to reveal how seemingly minute temporal variations have impactful effects on overarching rhythm, melody, and energy."
Aftertouches
Aftertouches is often described as part of a new school of enterprising electronic artists that lean heavily into electronic adventuring, both conceptually and sonically, "as if to experiment with the very building blocks of musical beauty... to speak a language that not everyone speaks yet" (Adam Harper, The Fader).Compared to its experimentalist contemporaries, Aftertouches approaches experimentalism with a more symphonic calculation and leaning towards composition, weaving both physical and technological realms to creates a series of celestial modern classical miniatures. The Wire describes Aftertouches as "...the textless, fleshless voice-keyboard, the lingering foggy sublime of CPU-washed tone granules, the modular serialism of object oriented processes. The various parts are often starkly separated in colour and harmony, but the overall shape flows on smoothly either still learning from and resolving its experiences, or in thrall to an aesthetic that's beyond the horizon" (The Wire, issue 376, June 2015).For Adhoc, Neil Lord writes "The sweeping moments of beauty are balanced with stabs of electronic grit: an acrylic portrait of a Cronenberg-esque organism, morphing, half human, half machine."Aftertouches was named one of the best 25 records of the first half of 2015 by Adhoc, and was called "a true masterwork from a still young artist" by Bobby Power in Decoder.
Discography
Albums
A 480 (2014, Constellation Tatsu)
Aftertouches (2015, Sacred Phrases)
Sirens (with LXV) (2014, Umor Rex)
EPs
Triptych for Solo Piano (2012, Gate)
Scoring Work
Royal Jelly (2014) by Kara Crabb.
The Reproductive Life Cycle of a Flower (2015) by Kara Crabb.
Session, Production, Mixing Work
Virgins - Tim Hecker - 2013, Kranky (Keyboards and Piano)
Massacred for Gold -Tim Hecker, 2013, Dir. Jennifer Anderson and Vernon Lott) (Keyboards for Film Score).
Patterns of Excel - Lee Bannon, 2015, Ninja Tune (Keyboards and Piano, Arrangem
Tunnel vision
Kara-Lis Coverdale Lyrics
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28 Days The year is two double 0 two, nothing is brand…
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Boston Manor You couldn't see the cliff ahead Cause you were staring at…
Broadside I'M PENNILESS BUT SOMEHOW USEFUL TELL ME WHERE I FIT IN YOU'…
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Cameron J Yeah. Oooo you give me life, give me life Ooo you give…
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Da L.E.S. I aint fighting for the middle Climbing to the top you…
Davion Farris I′m obsessed with making you happy You're such a blessing, I…
Deveondi I got tunnel vision It's all that I see It's you me…
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Dr.Zilog How did I get here Standing on a rock lost in…
Drudge Another ocean view Another fabricated room Perception Bleedi…
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Egg I just wanna be in love with you Woke up today…
EggShells And I waded slowly In the drifts of leaves Biding time in…
F-O Look for the Record this record is for the hecklers…
Feenom Circle [Raw J] It don't touch me right I can't sleep at night Li…
Finn Morrison Time hit the back of my head and I cannot…
Fox Lake Gave so much to this whole thing (Run it) Take what…
French Montana Feat. Chinx Drugz & Cheeze Just like what I said Baby my baby baby my baby…
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Grumpster When I opened my eyes this morning There′s only one thing…
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Hazing Over Narrowed in to collision Perception wearing thin fulfill th…
Hearts and Rockets I will follow you into the dark I have seen the…
House Fight It's always gotta be something like it's all too much I'm…
I.Q. Don't want to lead a revolution Let another go ahead don't h…
Indecision Self preservation - the end of ambition Life is so long…
IQ Don't want to lead a revolution Let another go ahead Don't…
j-level Discernment the key to success I posses talents allowing me …
Jerro & Kauf This time, I′ve gone too far No chance that you're looking…
Jesus Piece Tearing away My old skin Shed my old blood Embrace what I've…
John Petrucci [Instrumental]…
Justin Timberlake I know you like it Don't know why, but girl, I'm…
JyellowL I stay drunk way too long I should really stop…
K-Rich Tunnel vision, I’m locked in I got that tunnel vision…
K.O.F I see my visions so vividly I see my visions so…
Kae Tempest Indigenous apocalypse, decimated forest, the Winter of our d…
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KARN Collision on sight and she throw that shit back Decision all…
Kodak Black Glee (Southside) (Ayy, lil' Metro on that beat) Lil' Kodak,…
Kyah Baby My ancestors ain't die for me not to fight for…
Lenny Kravitz Tunnel Vision All I want Is all you got Make me happy baby …
Limi All of this time, you're Still changing your mind All of the…
LIVING ROOM - Pop Smoke Haha, mami like Mami like, "Damn boy, you made it" (man,…
Lou'D Yo what's up know partner?! Quand tu fais la bringue Jsuis…
Luca Sorrentino I wonder if this TV could see me then what…
Lurk Open my mouth and pull out what you find You won't…
M-Tek NO SLEEP MUSIC [HOOK : Rosalvo] I done stay down and kept…
marble club my friends are slowly killing me i think that's what you…
Melanie Martinez Follow the tunnel into the portal Lay all your burdens to…
Meridian Can we walk for a minute Let me melt in it Let…
Mildrage Things have another side, it′s already in my hand Things hav…
Molly's Worst Enemy I'll sleep it off, if only I have time to…
MONKEY MAJIK I want you to know I′m good to go 美しい人 口紅の色のTargaに乗り込み I got…
Monophonics When you try and push your mind I will be the…
Nevea Tears God forgive me again, there is nothing I can do. I…
New Media Looking out at the world outside My window fall asleep Watch…
No Such Animal Time hit the back of my head and I cannot…
Percy IV Lost you while I lost my soul I’m empty and it…
Pieces Of The Past Fucked in the head At the bottom of every bottle again Numbi…
Pop Smoke Haha, mami like Mami like, "Damn boy, you made it" (man,…
Post Prom I spend less time critiquing myself in the mirror And more…
Project Pat We got millions on the table now We not stressing a…
Qwan Lennon The young niggas putting on in my city Trying to run…
Reuben James Hey, you're the only one around, tunnel vision Makes my hear…
Rob Moir Tunnel Vision It's not over, it's not over until they tell…
Russ I, I think you're captivating I, I, I think you're captivati…
sal the virgo Alpha like alif in arabic alphabets A beta like son…
Skyzoo Torae OK we’ll be to rap and we’ll be luck Well puff…
Slimka Tunnel Vision Tunnel vision Lumière dans le noir…
SomeKindaWonderful All I see is you I know the truth, I got…
SRSLY You are my blind spot Unlike I have ever seen Ever seen the…
Structures Day one: picked apart myself. Lost in translation, I've stu…
Terry Devine-King Tunnel vision Tunnel vision I see the light at the end New b…
The Artificials Without your hand upon my wildest dreams No bloom will ever…
The Cavves Hollow words dive off your tongue Spit them out while we're…
The Roots [Scatting:] Mm-bop mm-bop mm-bop mm-bop mm-bop mm-bop mm-bo…
The Swellers Apparently we are all just hypocrites. But face it, you're t…
Thomas Parr Hace rato no encuentro la frase adecuada Y guardo las palabr…
Tokyo Police Club Going to the sweet store tell me what you want I’ll…
TQ - 1 I done messed around and pushed the little red button Now…
Turquoise Sun There is a moment I'm hoping to see, Hoping to see,…
Upchurch I went to sleep broke as fuck Dreaming of a…
Vlad Holiday You see that look in her eyes You drink to put…
We Shot the Moon Tunnel vision came to me Like erosion changes memory's They …
X.O.X. Samuel got the tunnel vision Samuel got the tunnel vision Th…
XV [Verse 1: XV] I did it, you dreamed it, now live…
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