![]() ![]() ![]() Teng uses the piece to capture the way people related to technology and the information gathered about them, and there's almost a religious quality to it. Sung from the a marketing-tech company's database, it's a beautiful work that gets progressively creepier as it continues. In fact, The Hymn of Acxiom is an a cappella choral piece that uses a vocal harmonizer. While Teng is often associated with piano-based songs, two of these tracks don't even contain piano. The songs on the sampler - The Hymn of Acxiom, Close to Home and In the 99 - represent a triangulation of the music on Aims. I went away, then realized how deep a role music plays in my life to help me grapple with things and how to express things that normal conversation and written language just can't do." "In a way, I went back to graduate school to fall in love with music again. Teng's environmental studies also prompted what she considers a necessary shift in her creativity. ![]() "I had this growing interest and passion in sustainability, and the places I dabbled in it on a volunteer basis left me feeling like I didn't really know anything about it and couldn't contribute to solving the problems until I devoted more of myself to it," says Teng, who first began releasing her music while studying computer science at Stanford University. Since 2009's Inland Territory, Teng has been doing graduate work studying sustainability at the University of Michigan. USA TODAY is premiering a three-song sampler from the Michigan-based singer-songwriter's first album in four years. In September, Vienna Teng will release her fifth studio album, Aims. ![]()
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