Lyra Pramuk moves through sound the way a mystic moves through prayer. Here, she tells us “how everything is about vibration”
This story is taken from the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of AnOther Magazine:
“I felt a deep familiarity with the ideas in Hazrat Inayat Khan’s book The Mysticism of Sound and Music and in the way that he writes – like he is articulating notions I already operate by in some way. It’s in the sense that a sound is like the breath, the animating element of consciousness. Khan’s writings – lectures given to his pupils and published as a collection in 1923 – look at Hindu music, ecology and Sufi metaphysics, and everything is about vibration. Astrology is not different from music for me. They both have their own measured speeds and relationships that are mathematical. Like music, astrology energetically is all about tension and release. Throughout most of human history, society was related to the cosmos – we have been connected to these larger cycles and Khan sees us as a small part of this big choreography. If there’s a choreography of planets of different sizes and speeds in our solar system, there is also a choreography in each one of our cells. Khan suggests that everyone is unique but we’re all part of the same symphony of vibrations.”
Lyra Pramuk moves through sound the way a mystic moves through prayer: attempting to braid the world back into wholeness. The Pennsylvania-born, Berlin-based producer and composer works in rogue electronics and modern classical idioms yet bends them towards tenderness, ceremony and collective listening. Hymnal, her latest studio album, released last year, is full of devotion and praise that refuses religion while preserving its rapture. Like her 2020 debut, Fountain, the record weaves together folk memory, house rhythm, techno structures, gospel invocation and the discipline of classical form. Whether composing for film, carving out ecstasy in her songs or looping her voice in live performance, Pramuk approaches music as a communal rite, one in which no voice is solitary and harmony is restored.
This story features in the Spring/Summer 2026 issue, marking 25 years of AnOther Magazine, on sale now.
