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"LeBaron’s I Am an American — My Government Will Reward You summoned ghosts while prodding us to think about today’s headlines. Using objects and extended techniques (the least of them plucking and strumming the strings), along with electronic processing, LeBaron turned her sound into physical presence, lightened by hints of pop harmonies and jazz-like improvisation. I Am an American… is above all what art cannot do without being: provocative and thoughtful."
"Her set-up included two concert harps side-by-side and a dozen or so implements to apply to the strings and bodies of the harps. Le Barons’s fascinating solo consisted of a mixture of harp plucking gestures using patterns derived from oriental-sounding scales alongside bowing, scraping and percussive effects."
“Cutting-edge composer, improvising harpist, writer and lecturer Anne LeBaron tells Limelight about her involvement in Perth's Totally Huge New Music Festival as one of the Festival's featured artists. She will discuss composing in a post-truth world and perform her work inspired by a military "blood chit".”
LIMELIGHT: Australia’s Classical Music and Arts Magazine, 2017
"Musicians like Evan Parker and Anne LeBaron and Charlotte Hug and Joe McPhee and Milford Graves and Han Bennink and Peter Brötzmann and George Lewis and Steve Beresford and Paul Lovens are among the great artists of our era. It may be awhile before history recognizes them for this, but I’m confident that it will come to pass.”