Upcoming Events
2024 Dec. 1 :: Exploratory (Niblock) (with Hannes Lingens + Jonas Kocher) at Akouphene Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
2024 Nov. 22 :: Ghost Ensemble at The Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY
2024 Nov. 9 :: Ghost Ensemble: Rewild release concert at Bombyx, Florence, MA
2024 Nov. 3 :: Deep Listening Workshop at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity, Florence, MA
2024 Oct. 14 :: Laramidia at Oracle Egg, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Oct. 11 :: Portent of Laramidia at High Desert Soundings, Wonder Valley, CA
Selected Performances, 2013–present:
2024 Aug. 24 :: Virgula premiere at Art Omi, Ghent, NY
2024 Aug. 5 :: Portent of Laramidia at Richten25, Berlin, Germany
2024 Aug. 2 :: Portent of Laramidia, The Well (Oliveros) and Exploratory (Niblock) (with Hannes Lingens + Susanne Stock) at BLECH, Halle, Germany
2024 Jul. 30 :: Portent of Laramidia at private event, Antwerp, Belgium
2024 Jul. 29 :: Machaut Mashup (with Lore Lixenberg + Federico Reuben) & Laramidia at Cafe Oto, London, UK
2024 May 25 :: Ghost Ensemble: Rewild at Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro, VT
2024 May 19 :: Ghost Ensemble: Laramidia and Exploratory (Niblock) at 24-HOUR-DRONE, Basilica Hudson, NY
2024 May 10 :: Ghost Ensemble: Rewild at Goethe Institut, Boston, MA
2024 Apr. 27 :: Ghost Ensemble: Rewild at Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Apr. 26 :: Ghost Ensemble: Rewild at Bowerbird, Philadelphia, PA
2024 Apr. 13 :: Ghost Ensemble: Sky Macklay portrait concert at WoCoFest, Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD
2024 Apr. 9 :: Ghost Ensemble at Y3K: Awakening, UMass-Amherst, MA
2024 Feb. 25 :: Portent of Laramidia at The Red Room, Baltimore, MD
2024 Feb. 24 :: Portent of Laramidia at Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA
2024 Feb. 4 :: Portent of Laramidia at Rhizome, Washington, DC
2024 Jan. 30 :: Portent of Laramidia and Exploratory (Niblock) at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
2024 Jan. 13 :: Portent of Laramidia at Oracle Egg, Los Angeles, CA (postponed)
2024 Jan. 12 :: Dissolution Seedlings premiere by House On Fire Trio, rasp.la, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Jan. 7 :: Deep Listening Workshop at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity, Florence, MA
2023 Dec. 17 :: Portent of Laramidia on SFSound mosswood series, Oakland, CA
2023 Dec. 13 :: Laramidia world premiere & Aurogeny release concert with Lily Maase and James Ilgenfritz, Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Dec. 10 :: Improvisation set with David Rothenberg at Spectrum, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Dec. 1 :: The Privilege of Sand Dunes premiere by Loadbang, Crypt of the Church of the Intercession, New York, NY
2023 Nov. 9 :: ASM Presents: Ghost Ensemble at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Nov. 3 :: Improvisation set with Laura Cetilia and Mark Cetilia at Bachfest, Providence, RI
2023 June 9 Scarboro Bowl
Scarboro Bowl, Belchertown, MA
Richter, Wounded Keens
Richter, Herxheimer Doinas (excerpts)
2023 June 1 MATA Festival
Roulette, New York, NY
Richter, Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean
(world premiere of version for five live accordionists)
2023 May 12-20 Ghost Ensemble: Rewild tour
Evergreen Cemetery (4 nights), Santa Cruz, CA
Automata, Los Angeles, CA
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles, CA
San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, San Luis Obispo, CA
Other Minds / St. John the Evangelist, San Francisco, CA
Indexical / Wind River (2 nights), Santa Cruz, CA
Oliveros, Environmental Dialogue
Harrison, Air in G Minor
Lamb, interius/exterius
Macklay, Harmonifriends
Masaoka, Four Moons of Pluto
Richter, Rewild
Streb, Game Time: Three Exercises for Intrepid Performers
2023 Apr. 16 Ghost Ensemble: Rewild in Amherst, MA
UMass-Bezanson Hall, Amherst, MA
Oliveros, Mountain Air
Macklay, Harmonifriends
Richter, Rewild
2023 Apr. 14 Ghost Ensemble: Rewild
University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Harrison, Air in G Minor
Macklay, Harmonifriends
Richter, Rewild
2023 Mar. 24 Ghost Ensemble: Rewild
Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA
Harrison, Air in G Minor
Macklay, Harmonifriends
Richter, Rewild
2023 Mar. 16 Ghost Ensemble & Yasunao Tone
Artists Space, New York, NY
Tone, The Seminar on the Purloined Letter
2022 Dec. 21 Phill Niblock Solstice Event
Roulette, New York, NY
Niblock, Exploratory
2022 Dec. 20 Ghost Ensemble: Lamb/Oliveros at the Infrequent Seams Festival
Roulette, New York, NY
Lamb, interius/exterius, world premiere
Oliveros, N.Y. Air
2022 Dec. 19 Ghost Ensemble: Rewild at the Infrequent Seams Festival
Roulette, New York, NY
Richter, Rewild, world premiere
2022 Aug. 20 qubit: Loud As It Plays (Whitney Biennial 2022)
High Line, New York, NY
Chen, Declaration
Chen, Questions for Heathcliff
Steenberge, Music for Introverts
Steenberge, Piriforms
2022 July 25 Infrequent Seams Streamfest
Remote performance
Epstein, a piece for ben, world premiere
2022 May 20 Music For Your Inbox: Unfolding Landscapes
Remote performance
Richter, Time Whorl Canyon, world premiere
2022 May 7 permutations040722: Ghost Ensemble
uptown underground, New York, NY
Cetilia, falling, for ghost ensemble, world premiere
Macklay, Harmonifriends, world premiere
Brown, Nonet, East Coast premiere
2022 May 6 Another Love Discourse Launch Party
Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York, NY
Richter, Paean
Margron/Meidav/Richter, To Be Engulfed
2022 May 5 Ben Richter & Rally Reading Series
Pete’s Candy Store, New York, NY
Richter, Wounded Keens
Richter, Herxheimer Doinas (excerpts)
2022 Feb. 24 Jeonghyeon Joo and Ben Richter
CalArts, Los Angeles, CA
Richter, Whistwights, world premiere
2021 Dec. 18 Permutations Presents: Ben Richter
Cypher Winery, Paso Robles, CA
Richter, Wounded Keens
Richter, Herxheimer Doinas (excerpts)
2021 Nov. 28 Ben Richter, Laura Steenberge, KCM Walker
Revolve, Asheville, NC
Richter, Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean
2021 Nov. 15 Cloud Recordings Festival
Flicker Theater, Athens, GA
Richter, Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean
2021 Nov. 12 Ben Richter and David Rothenberg
Kemble Bluff, Cold Spring, NY
Richter/Rothenberg, duo improvisations
2021 Jun. 30 Ghost Ensemble Presents: Ben Richter, accordion/producer
Remote performance
Oliveros, In Consideration of the Earth
Richter, Plasmodial
Richter, Respire
Richter, Qualia
Tenney, (night)
2020 Dec. 18 Infrequent Seams Festival, accordion
Remote performance
Jones/Richter/Stavros, trio improvisation
2020 Apr. 7 Full Pink Moon: Opera Povera In Quarantine, accordion
Remote performance
Oliveros, The Lunar Opera
2020 March Ghost Ensemble: Arctic Air tour, accordion/director
REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Wind River (Indexical), Santa Cruz, CA
Oliveros, Arctic Air
Terrazas, Ifigenia en
Ilgenfritz, Apophenia V, West Coast premiere
Brown, Nonet, world premiere
Richter, Wind People
2020 Mar. 1 Manala, accordion
Open Gate Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Romus/Koskinen, Manala Suite
2020 Feb. 5 Ben Richter: Dream Ocean, accordion/producer
CalArts, Los Angeles, CA
Niblock, Exploratory, Rhine Version “Looking for Daniel”, solo version world premiere
Richter, Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean, ensemble world premiere
2019 Nov. 24 Ghost Ensemble: Universe Sings, accordion/director
Arete, New York, NY
Alexander, and the whole air is tremulous
Kay, The Universe Is Vibrating
Gidron, Trio, world premiere
Oliveros, Horse Sings From Cloud
2019 Nov. 5 A Ghost Quartet, accordion/director
Casa Berenice, Los Angeles, CA
Feeney/Ilgenfritz/Macklay/Richter, quartet improvisation
2019 June 15 Ghost Ensemble: Apophenia/Wolf, accordion/director
NYPOP, New York, NY
Aska, Synchronicities
Adams, Let haze help you hear you hear us
Ilgenfritz, Apophenia V, world premiere
Richter, Exaltation, world premiere
Masaoka, Four Moons of Pluto
Falzone, Highly Composite Canon, world premiere
Dykstra, Pitch Gradient with Noise #6 (in Bb), world premiere
2018 Dec. 21 Ghost Ensemble: Midwinter, accordion/electronics/director
MISE-EN_PLACE, New York, NY
Green, Hover, world premiere
Jones, The Past, East Coast premiere
Grantham, deconstruct reorder conjoin repeat, world premiere
Underriner, Landscape: Ghost (Home), world premiere
Aska, Synchronicities, world premiere
Klucevsek, Tesknota
2018 Dec. 13 Ben Richter: Panthalassa, accordion
Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY
Richter, Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean
2018 May Ghost Ensemble: We Who Walk Again release tour, accordion/director
Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA
Wind River (Indexical), Santa Cruz, CA
Lefondusac (Permutations), Paso Robles, CA
Basic Flowers, Los Angeles, CA
Athenaeum Art Center at Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA
Cooper, Superlatives, West Coast premiere
Stepancic, Harp N Ropes No. 4, West Coast premiere
Macklay, 60° Mirrors, West Coast premiere
Oliveros, Angels and Demons
Hirsch, Imprint, world premiere
Richter, Wind People, West Coast premiere
Smith, we remember not the word, but the sound of the word, West Coast premiere
2018 Apr. 20 Ghost Ensemble: We Who Walk Again release concert, accordion/director
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY
Richter, Wind People
Cooper, Superlatives, New York premiere
Hirsch, Dynamics of Contact, American premiere
Macklay, 60° Mirrors
Oliveros, Angels and Demons
2018 Jan. 6-7 Ghost Ensemble North with David Rothenberg, accordion/director
Spectrum, New York, NY
Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY
Richter, Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean
Richter, practicing eternity, world premiere
Rothenberg, The Univocity of Being
Oliveros, Horse Sings From Cloud
Schafer, Snowforms
Stavros, Discipline
Richter/Rothenberg/Stavros, duo and trio improvisations
2017 Sep.–Oct. Ben Richter: Panthalassa release tour, Germany
Madame Claude, Berlin
GAP, Leipzig
T Berlin, Berlin
Richter, Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean, European premiere
Richter, Wounded Keens, European premiere
duo improvisations with Joshua Waldron
2017 Jun.–Jul. Ben Richter: Panthalassa release tour, USA
Willow Place Auditorium, New York, NY
Resonance Café, Montreal, Quebec
BETALEVEL, Los Angeles, CA
Studio Grand, Oakland, CA
The Luggage Store (Outsound), San Francisco, CA
Never Ending Books (Uncertainty Music), New Haven, CT
The Lily Pad, Cambridge, MA
Rhizome, Washington, DC
Richter, Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean, world premiere
Richter, Wounded Keens, New York and West Coast premieres
2016 Dec. 15 Ghost Ensemble: New Commissions, accordion/voice/director
Invisible Dog Art Center (Indexical), New York, NY
Stepancic, Harp N Ropes No. 4, world premiere
Adams, Let haze help you hear you hear us, world premiere
Smith, we remember not the word, but the sound of the word, world premiere
Wolfe, Karaniya Metta Sutta, world premiere
Richter, Wind People, world premiere
Oliveros, Tuning Meditation
2016 Nov. 12 Ben Richter and Cyanotype
Shadowbox Studio (WXDU), Durham, NC
Richter, Wounded Keens, world premiere
quartet improvisation with Cyanotype
2016 Apr. 16 Ghost Ensemble: Beneath the Surface, accordion/director
Firehouse Space, New York, NY
Macklay, 60° Mirrors
Rot, whether wandering
Oliveros, Buffalo Jam
Stockhausen, Set Sail for the Sun
Smith, we remember not the word, but the sound of the word, preview excerpts
2016 Apr. 14 Ghost Ensemble: Pebbles and Dust, accordion/percussion/director
Old Stone House (Musical Ecologies), New York, NY
Sabat, Gioseffo Zarlino
Lang, Tehran Dust
Vítkova, Visible
Oliveros, Pebble Music
2015 Nov. 28 Motabar/Richter/Roessler/Wallraf, accordion
Mainzer7, Berlin
Richter, Emergence, world premiere
Roessler, For Ben, world premiere
Motabar/Richter/Roessler/Wallraf, quartet improvisation
2015 Nov. 11 Ilgenfritz/Paul/Richter/Wallraf, accordion
Spectrum, New York, NY
Ilgenfritz/Paul/Richter/Wallraf, quartet improvisation
2015 Oct. 30 Ghost Ensemble and Lightbulb Ensemble, accordion/conductor/director
Pioneer Works (Indexical), New York, NY
Janulyte, Psalms
Richter, Healing Ghost
Oliveros, Angels and Demons
Hovhaness, Chahagir
Smith, we remember not the word, but the sound of the word, preview excerpts
Steen-Anderson, Study for String Instrument #1
2014 Dec. 4 Ghost Ensemble: Winter Concert, accordion/musical saw/director
Barn & Bail, New York, NY
Rot, whether wandering, world premiere
Roessler, Kom je mee?, world premiere
Richter, Samudra, world premiere
Sargent, Tide
Sabat, Jean-Philippe Rameau
Wolff, For 1, 2, or 3 People
2014 Nov. 9 Ghost Ensemble: Spectrum II, accordion/director
Spectrum, New York, NY (Macklay, Wolff)
Finnissy, Ulpirra
Macklay, Ritornello, world premiere
Sabat, Jean-Philippe Rameau, New York premiere
Wolff, For 1, 2, or 3 People
2014 Sep. 28 Moon Rainbow with Pauline Oliveros & Elaine Summers Dance, accordion
Solar One, New York, NY
Oliveros, In Consideration of the Earth
Oliveros, Rock Piece
Oliveros, Environmental Dialogue
2014 Jul. 13 Deep Listening Festival, accordion/electronics
EMPAC, Troy, NY
Richter, Mirovia, world premiere
2014 May 17 Ghost Ensemble at the Queens New Music Festival, accordion/percussion/director
Secret Theater, New York, NY
Oliveros, The Well & The Gentle
Scelsi, Dharana
Richter, Star Maker, world premiere
Macklay, 60° Mirrors
Steen-Anderson, Study for String Instrument #1
Gann, Sang Plato’s Ghost, world premiere
2014 Apr. 4 East Bank Music Series: Ghost Ensemble, accordion/conductor/director
Church of the Annunciation, New York, NY
Richter, Healing Ghost
Bulist, Gravity, world premiere
Scelsi, Dharana
Sargent, Tide
Cage, Music for 6
Sainte-Colombe, arr. Macklay, Les Pleurs
2014 Mar. 28 Ghost Ensemble: Spectrum I, accordion/director
Spectrum, New York, NY
Baker, Discreet Variations, world premiere
Berio, Psy
Lucier, (NY) Memory Space
Macklay, Robot Wedding, world premiere
Morris, Recoils
Sainte-Colombe, arr. Macklay, Les Pleurs
2014 Feb. 12 S.E.M. Ensemble: New Works by Emerging Composers, musical saw
Willow Place Auditorium, New York, NY
Richter, Innominandum, world premiere
Sargent, Tide
2013 Dec. 4 Ghost Ensemble: Water Street POPS, accordion/percussion/voice/director
Water Street POPS, New York, NY
Hildegard, arr. Richter, Cum erubuerint infelices
Richter, Ghost Silence
Baker/Cargo/Morris/Richter, quartet improvisations
2013 Nov. 15 Ghost Ensemble: Supernatural Sounds (permutations111513), accordion/conductor/director
Brooklyn Conservatory, New York, NY (Hildegard, Macklay, Oliveros, Richter)
Hildegard, arr. Richter, Cum erubuerint infelices
Crumb, An Idyll for the Misbegotten
Macklay, 60° Mirrors, world premiere
Oliveros, Angels and Demons
Scelsi, Maknongan
Richter, Destroying Angel, world premiere
2013 Nov. 1 CT-SWaM: Ghost Ensemble with Pauline Oliveros, accordion/director
Eyebeam, New York, NY
Oliveros, The Well & The Gentle
Oliveros, One Hundred Meeting Places
Oliveros, Sound Fishes
2013 Jul. 14 Deep Listening: Art/Science, electronics
EMPAC, Troy, NY
Richter, Destabilization, world premiere
2013 Jun. 29 Transient Series II.7: Bandwidth, accordion
Willow Place Auditorium, New York, NY
Tenney, Critical Band
Guthrie/Gomberg, Remarks On Color, world premiere
2013 Jun. 21 Ghost Ensemble: Shorakkopoch, accordion/percussion/director
Inwood Hill Park, New York, NY
Oliveros, Environmental Dialogue
Wolff, Stones
large ensemble improvisations
2013 Mar. 23 Transient Series II.4: Ghost Ensemble, accordion/conductor/director
Willow Place Auditorium, New York, NY
Oliveros, Extreme Slow Song
Scelsi, Hyxos
Grisey, Prelude
Bird, Squeem
Bulist, I Lay My Heart Open To The Benign Indifference Of The Universe, world premiere
Morris, Duet for Doublebass and Doublebassist
Richter, Healing Ghost, world premiere