Works by Kala Pierson
Biography
Kala Pierson
(born 1977) is an American composer and sound artist. Her vivid, expressive,
and rhythmically free works have been performed by prominent ensembles and
soloists in more than 25 countries on six continents, and widely commissioned.
Her music's “seductive textures and angular
harmonies” (Washington Post) are “intricately structured, both mathematical and
lyrical” (Dnevnik). Much of her music includes text (whether sung by voices or
used in other ways), and she focuses on texts of cultural and political
significance by living writers, producing works of “marvelous political power”
(Louis Andriessen).