Lyra Pramuk Biography 

 
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Lyra Pramuk fuses classical training, pop sensibilities, performance practices and 
contemporary club culture in what may best be described as futurist folk music. While the 
American operatically-trained vocalist and electronic musician is perhaps previously best 
known for her work with musical collaborators such as Holly Herndon and Colin Self, she has 
just released her critically-acclaimed debut album, Fountain, via Iceland’s Bedroom 
Community label in March 2020. 
 
Created entirely from her own voice, although often shaped and structured by electronics, 
Fountain is an emotional, sensual, and devotional journey. The title is derived from her family 
name, Pramuk, which translates from Czech as ‘well spring’ or ‘fountain.’ Often wordless, 
these songs evoke a new wholeness sustained by the ritual force of drowning, immersion, 
cleansing, and bathing – also referred to in the album artwork by acclaimed visual artist 
Donna Huanca. Fountain plays with the perception of music, rhythms, speech, body, and the 
relation between technology and humanity, exploring a post-human, non-binary 
understanding of life and the fragile ecosystems it depends on. The work documents a 
healing that is still in process, and a full circle-moment that reunited Lyra with her sound 
engineer twin brother, Ben, for the final mix, which they completed in tandem. 
 
As a vocal activist and member of the queer community, Fountain’s creation also coincided 
with a personal rejuvenation for its author. Its completion culminated in the live premiere of 
the album material at Unsound Festival in Krakow in 2019, where she performed through a 
multi-channel array designed by Ben Frost, opening for Sunn O))) and Roly Porter. A closer 
collaboration with Frost on a soundtrack for a new film project will be announced in 2021. Her 
performance at Berghain on 30 January for CTM Festival in her hometown of Berlin offered 
an even more confident and joyous realization of the album’s song cycle. 
 
Lyra moved to Berlin in 2013 as a DAAD postgraduate study scholarship recipient, following 
her degree at the Eastman School of Music in New York. Since then, she has also been 
awarded residencies at Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm, Open Port Club Residency in 
Tokyo and Sapporo, and Future Music Lab of the Atlantic Music Festival in Maine. Her 
interests also encompass writing, poetry, and fashion, where she is sometimes called upon as 
a model. As a performance artist, she has collaborated extensively with Donna Huanca and at 
events such as Glasgow International and the Rochester Fringe Festival.