Laetitia Sonami

Sonami’s sound performances, live film collaborations and sound installations focus on issues of presence and participation. She has devised new gestural controllers for performance and applies new technologies and appropriated media to achieve an expression of immediacy through sound, place and body.

Recent collaborations include an improvisation duo, Sparrows and Ortolans, with James Fei; and She is a Butcher in my dreams for Zeena Parkins.

Sonami has performed at numerous festivals across the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and China. Awards include the Alpert Award in the Arts (2002), Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Award (2000), the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (2000), Studio Pass-Harvestworks Residency (2001), and a Creative Work Fund Award (2000) for a collaboration with Nick Bertoni and the Tinkers Workshop. Sonami lives in Oakland, California and was a guest professor in the Music Department at Mills College, CA until its demise in the spring of 2023.

LOVELY MUSIC is to release Sonami’s double CD “Dangerous Women” featuring her works from 1985-2005. The CD is available here: