Laurel Halo, Ash Fure

On June 25, join us for a special performance by composer, producer, musician, DJ, and record label founder Laurel Halo.

This summer, Halo returns to Pioneer Works after her lastest release, 𝙈𝙞𝙙𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙕𝙤𝙣𝙚, with new solo material for piano and electronics, combining delicate jazz harmony, deep ambient atmosphere, acousmatic sleight of hand, and soundsystem impact to create an immersive sonic narrative. In the Main Hall, she will perform a live ambient piano piece, preceded by a performance by exhibiting artist and past collaborator, Ash Fure.

This concert takes place within artist Ash Fure’s site-specific installation, ANIMAL [a listening gym]. Learn more about the exhibition here.

About the artists

Laurel Halo is a Los Angeles-based composer, producer, recording artist, and musician. Her music is known for its depth and sense of presence, melding the materiality and spirituality of sound to focus on concepts of transmission, memory, and impermanence. Drawing influence from musique concrète, film score, and jazz, she uses both organic and inorganic sound materials, an extensive studio-as-instrument practice, and a deep appreciation for harmony to create her signature sound across a stylistically diverse catalog. She has toured and presented work around the world at places including the Barbican Centre, Ina-GRM, the Sydney Opera House, Kölner Philharmonie, Unsound Festival, and the Julia Stoschek Foundation, among others. She has collaborated with musicians, artists, and designers, including Moritz von Oswald, Metahaven, Kevin Beasley, Julia Holter, Hanne Lippard, John Cale, Leila Bordreuil, Julian Charrière, and the London Contemporary Orchestra. The album Atlas (LP, 2023), the first on her Awe imprint, was met with wide acclaim.

Ash Fure’s full-bodied sonic experiences work on the senses in startling ways. Called “purely visceral” and “staggeringly original” by The New Yorker, the artist’s live performances and total installations mobilize the elemental force of sound, the social muscle of listening, and our animal capacity to sense. Winner of a 2025 Creative Capital Grant, she has also received two Lincoln Center Emerging Artists Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize in Music Composition, a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Prize, an FCA Grant for Artists, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Stuttgart Composition Prize, a Darmstadt Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Columbia University. Fure holds a PhD in Music Composition from Harvard University, is Professor of Sonic Arts at Dartmouth College, and served as co-artistic director of The Industry LA from 2021 to 2024.