Figureskater recently sat down with Los Angeles based songwriter, Julia Holter, when she was in SF to play the Great American Music Hall. Tune in on Tuesday, May 28th @ 1pm to hear their conversation about Holter’s latest album, Something in the Room She Moves, her writing process, and her recent exploration into teaching the craft of songwriting.
The common thread running through the Julia Holter discography is her fearless individuality. The Southern California composer has amassed a body of work that explores song structure, atmosphere, minimalism and the authority of her voice.
Holter’s past work has often explored memory and dreamlike future, but her latest album resides more in presence: “There’s a corporeal focus, inspired by the complexity and transformability of our bodies,” Holter says.
Her production choices and arrangements form a continuum of fretless electric bass pitches in counterpoint with gliding vocal melodies, while glissing Yamaha CS-60 lines entwine warm winds and reeds. “I was trying to create a world that’s fluid-sounding, waterlike, evoking the body’s internal sound world,” Holter says of her flowing harmonic universe.
