ABOUT

ty bouque writes about opera: its slippery histories, its sensual bodies, and the work of mourning for a dead genre. A frequent contributor on issues of contemporary music, their writing can be found in VAN Magazine, TEMPO, in the liners of Huddersfield Contemporary Records, in a forthcoming book from Lyrebird Press, and, less formally, on Substack at Preposterous Reading. Elsewhere, bouque sings as one-fourth of the new music quartet Loadbang, as well as in solo and ensemble settings around the world. Their relationship to sound and the resonant body is explicitly queer, luminous and introspective, barren and vulnerable. Experiences of submission, infection, and sexuality are particularly informative to their sound work. They maintain close collaborative relationships with several composers, including T McCormack, Michael Finnissy, and Kelley Sheehan. They live in Detroit with an accordion they do not know how to play but would very much like to.