the things that keep us human
Photo by Ge Wang
Since 2008, I have thought of all my work under the title, the things that keep us human. I strive to support listening, attention, presence, and awareness of the body in my work as a composer, singer, performer, conductor, instrument builder, and theorist. I write music and build instruments that invite people to be present with their broad, ageless, all-remembering self.
HAPPENINGS
2025-2026 SEASON
Sunday, October 19th, 12-6 pm * SF Music Day @ SF War Memorial Performing Arts Center * I will be performing excerpts from The Glance interwoven with solos for the Tape Machine at 3 pm in the Taube Music Atrium * tickets here
Sunday, November 23rd, 2 pm * SF MOMA * Performing live with video works by filmmaker Lynn Marie Kirby
Friday, December 12, 2025 @ 7:00 pm * First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto * PWC performs Voices that Guide Us * tickets here
Saturday, December 13, 2025 @ 1:00 pm * Mission Santa Clara * PWC performs Voices that Guide Us * tickets here
March 11-15, 2026 * Borealis Festival, Bergen, Norway * Performing with Elin Mar Vister Oyen
April 17-19, 2026 * Meets the Eye Studio, San Carlos * PWC performs Transcendence Abounds
May 5-10, 2026 * PWC on Tour * Seattle and Vancouver
May 29-31, 2026 * PREMIERE OF THE GLANCE * ODC, San Francisco
June 11-27, 2026 * Scholar in Residence with SF Opera * Preconcert Talk for Elektra
SUMMER 2026 * Tape Machine Solo Album Release
ONLINE VIEWING
The Furies: A Laptopera Trailer * in three minutes, see how and why The Furies happened! * on my new Youtube Channel.
**The Furies: A Laptopera** new opera for laptop orchestra and live vocalists based on the Electra story * watch Live-Stream recordings here
New Prosthetics self-titled album is out on FREAKS! Listen here, watch videos Experiment, Put Me Under, In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Online release of Annabel Lee (2005) for solo voice and tape track
EXCITING PRESS:
I Care If You Listen profiled my work in an article titled “Anne Hege Breathes Life into Hacked Cassette Players and Singing Laptops” by Esteban Meneses (I love the title of this article).
It sounds like all my dreams commissioned by Volti SF, for live distanced chorus, virtual chorus, and electronic interludes, received some nice reviews! SF Classical Voice published this review, and Stephen Smoliar published this one! You can watch it here.
You can find an article in SF Classical Voice about PWC’s first season with me as AD here.
I wrote a pamphlet to complete my Deep Listening Certification called Deep Listening Through Parenthood: Sonic Meditations for Birth, the NICU, and Beyond. It is free to share. I put it out there as a testament to the power of the Deep Listening practice, the work of Pauline Oliveros, Ione, and Heloise Gold, and the values that have been central to my work as a composer, musician, and human over the last twenty years. Enjoy!
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LAPTOPERA PRODUCTIONS
Pushing forward a new medium, the laptopera, to create operas for laptop orchestra and live voices that seamlessly weaves together movement, sound, and story
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TAPE MACHINE
Hear my latest works for my live, analog looping Tape Machine instrument.
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DONATE TODAY
Ambitious art needs allies!
Consider donating to support my next laptopera, The Glance, a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.
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PENINSULA WOMEN'S CHORUS
As the artistic director of the Peninsula Women’s Chorus, I support the creation of adventurous new music for treble voices.
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DEEP LISTENING
Download my free pamphlet, Deep Listening through Parenthood, a collection of Sonic Meditations for Birth, the NICU, and beyond.
With support from the following:
The creation of The Glance is made possible through the Musical Grant Program, administered by InterMusic SF, and supported by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation.
Laptopera Productions was supported by New Music USA’s Organization Fund in 2025-26.