“People would spill their beer on my harp,” she said. A harp from the manufacturer can weigh more than 80 pounds and costs, on average, over $30,000 $50,000 if it’s gilded. She stopped next to two towering pedal harps - one ivory and one walnut - made by the famed Lyon and Healy music company in Chicago. Donovan said of the band’s early touring appearances, giving a virtual tour of her apartment over Zoom. “When I started playing with LEYA we were playing these little noise shows in basements,” Ms. Mary Lattimore, another contemporary harpist, also collaborates with musicians from other genres, including prominent indie rockers like Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and the Violators’ Steve Gunn and Kurt Vile. LEYA collaborates with their peers in the experimental music scene, recording tracks with Eartheater, a musician in Queens, and the Brooklyn black metal band Liturgy. The result creates an unearthly dissonance: the auditory equivalent of awakening in the fog of a bad dream only to discover you’re still trapped in the nightmare. Donovan achieves this effect through unorthodox tunings and amplifications. The duo brings a punk mentality to their experimental work, which has been described by Pitchfork as “eerie, beckoning and tinged with horror.” Ms. Donovan performs with Adam Markiewicz, a violinist and vocalist, under the name LEYA. It can have so many different feels to it and still be beautiful.”
Marilu Donovan, 33, a harpist in New York, is also over the instrument’s prudish rep.
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