LYRA PRAMUK, FOUNTAIN / BEDROOM COMMUNITY, LP & DL 2020

Lyra Pramuk released her debut album, Fountain on 20 March 2020 during the global pandemic of COVID-19. Her record release party two weeks prior, hosted by Trauma Bar Und Kino, was among the last live events the Berlin club scene would experience before the state-issued quarantine set in. While current conditions have been disastrous for emerging artists, Pramuk's music seems uncannily calibrated for this strange of time.

Comprising seven scope-exploding tracks—all of which Pramuk composed by layering and modulating samples of her own voice—Fountain jailbreaks the listener from the orthogonal meter and scale has historically shaped musical production under Western Capitalism.

For this episode of NM Greenroom, New Models hosts LILINTERNET, Carly Busta, and Daniel Keller, joined by the writer Geoffrey Mak, ask Pramuk about the making of Fountain, the making of herself as a performer, and why she feels "futuristic folk" is the musical mode for right now. Along the way, we also talk speculative design and revisit a favorite debate: whether "Happy Birthday" truly sounds universally "happy" regardless of culture.

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NM GREENROOM Ep. 2: Lyra Pramuk discusses Fountain (Bedroom Community, 2020)