About

BIO: Sara Landeau is a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, educator, producer, composer, and artist. She has worked across a broad spectrum of experimental music mediums. 

She is a founding member, co-songwriter, and lead guitarist of The Julie Ruin with Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill/Le Tigre) and has released acclaimed albums on Hardly Art Records (SubPop), achieved top 10 chart hits, radio and television appearances, a number 1 on CMJ charts, and music in films and commercials. 

Live performances headlining tours or as part of world festivals include the US, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Australia, Tasmania, and more. Television performances include Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Seth Meyers Show, and  Carson Daly Show.   Reviews and interviews include New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Spin, New York Magazine, Paper Magazine, Billboard, Los Angeles Times, Timeout, Esquire, Big Takeover, NME, Pitchfork, Fader, Consequence of Sound, Flaunt, Bust, and dozens of US, European, and world newspapers and online journals.  College Music Journal (CMJ)  listed song “I Decide” #1 in 2017. Rolling Stone listed album ‘Run Fast” 2015 as #3 in their top ten albums of the year

The recipient of 2019 Max Matthews Sound Artist Artist award from Brooklyn College, the 2019 Cycling 74 Max Expo Grant, Women in Computer Music Scholarship Stanford, 2019, and an award-winning educator with the Girls Rock Camp Alliance, she has also performed as a solo electro-acoustic composer and guitarist. Her performances often include custom instruments and sonic sculptures utilizing electro-conductive materials such as paint and threads with sounds and compositions created in Max MSP. She has studied with Morton Subotnick, Marina Rosenfeld, and David Grubbs while receiving an MFA in Sonic Arts at Brooklyn College.

Full Resume or CV on request.

EDUCATION

M.F.A., Sonic Arts, Brooklyn College, NYC

Studied Composition with Electric Guitar Focus

& Music Synthesis

Recording: Pro Tools Certified

MUSIC TEACHING 

Graduate Classes taught, Brooklyn College 

"Sonic Arts Composition - Analysis of Pink Noises" 

"Advanced Guitar Theory" 

Music History Courses, Current  2016- present

"Music and Popular Culture"

"Music: Its Language, History, and Culture” 

"Music in Global America"

"Rap and Rock as a Cultural Phenomena" 

Brooklyn Music Studio for Women and Girls, owner NYC 2003-present

Owner

Private and Group Instrument Instructor: Guitar, Bass 

Lessonface, guitar teacher 2013-present

Private, Group, Masterclasses  

Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls NYC/Girls Rock Camp Alliance 2005 - present

Band Coach, Guitar Teacher, Pedal Workshops

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS and AWARDS (selected)

2019 Women in Computer Music Scholarship for Supercollider Stanford University 

2019 Max Matthews Sound Art Award, Brooklyn College 

2019 Cycling 74 Max Expo Grant

2015 Girls Rock Camp Alliance, USA: Artists and Activists Award 

Other: 

CBGB's, NYC 1996-2007 Bartender

Writer (selected)

Adorama/42 West  https://www.adorama.com/alc/article_author/sara-landeau

She Shreds- Online and Print Edition Guitar Lesson Features

https://sheshreds.com/musician-tips-julie-ruin/