"likely to offer a profound impact on the very nature of listening."
— Stephen Smoliar, The Rehearsal Studio
"cloudy, mysterious, and dark ... Beckettian in its slow spread"
— Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
"a multifaceted texture that evokes the primeval"
— Meg Wilhoite, Meg's New Music Blog
"a look, perhaps, into a different dimension … the music sounds like something incomprehensibly massive is passing by, slowly."
— George Grella, The New York Classical Review
SURROUNDSCAPES: The Future of Music
listen here for Ben's podcast interview with Graeme Harrison
Ghost Ensemble's Mountain Air is here! Listen and pre-order — music by Pauline Oliveros, Marguerite Brown, Teodora Stepančić
MAY 2022
Get tickets by May 15!
COMING SOON 2022
Ghost Ensemble premieres new work by Catherine Lamb, Sky Macklay, Miya Masaoka, Ben Richter, Lester St. Louis
New compositions for Ensemble Linea, Jeonghyeon Joo, Music For Your Inbox, Ghost Ensemble, and accordion solo
New accordion works for Ben by Nomi Epstein, Michael Pisaro, and Carolyn Chen
Recordings: solo record (Infrequent Seams), LP/CDs with Phill Niblock (Matière Mémoire), Ulrich Krieger (room34)
Ben Richter is an accordionist, composer, and founding director of Ghost Ensemble.