3 as well as a Human Ear compilation, and released the CD-R album Cookbook on Sleepy Mammal Sound. In 2008, she contributed tracks to Monika's 4 Women No Cry, Vol. After graduation, she studied electronic music at CalArts with Michael Pisaro, who she was inspired to work with after seeing him perform during her time at U of M. While studying composition at the University of Michigan, she began recording her own music. Along with her classical training, Holter also learned to play songs by Billie Holiday, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, and Radiohead.
Holter's embrace of traditional pop structures reached a peak on 2015's acclaimed Have You in My Wilderness, but with 2018's double-album Aviary, she underscored just how vital experimentation was to her ambitious, uncompromising music.īorn in Milwaukee and raised in Los Angeles by a musically inclined family - her father is a guitarist who once played with Pete Seeger - Holter began playing piano at an early age and started writing her own music at age ten.
On every album, the scope of her music grew she incorporated chamber pop and the words of Virginia Woolf and Frank O'Hara on 2012's Ekstasis and engaged with Gigi - both Colette's short story and Vincente Minelli's 1958 film - on 2013's bustling Loud City Song. On early releases such as 2011's Tragedy, she combined bedroom recordings of droning electronics and distant vocals with inspirations as cultured as Euripides' play Hippolytus. Los Angeles-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Julia Holter blurs the boundaries between indie music, modern composition, and electronic music.
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