New album Rewild with Ghost Ensemble
New 2CD Aurogeny — accordion, string quartet, & ensemble works
"consistently fascinating ... pulsating, scintillating music is realised brilliantly ... with momentous results" Julian Cowley, The Wire
"epic symphony of accordion mastery ... some of the most powerful experimental music of the last 12 months or more" Noel Gardner, Buzz
"gargantuan, glacially paced, sprawling, fantastic" hypirestition ruins
UPCOMING EVENTS
2024
Nov. 3 :: Florence, MA
Deep Listening Workshop at Bombyx
Nov. 9 :: Florence, MA
Nov. 22 :: Hudson, NY
Deep Listening Workshop at Flow Chart Foundation
&
Ghost Ensemble at Flow Chart Foundation
Dec. 1 :: Geneva, CH
Niblock's Exploratory at the Akouphène Festival with Hannes Lingens and Jonas Kocher
Dec. 3 :: Paris, FR
Portent of Laramidia on the Infuse series
OUT NOW
:: Rewild album with Ghost Ensemble on New World Records
:: Ghost Ensemble recording of James Ilgenfritz's Apophenia V (Infrequent Seams)
COMING SOON
:: Dissolution Seedlings album with House On Fire Trio on Sawyer Editions
:: Blue Tapes album with previously unreleased accordion works
:: Exploratory LP with Phill Niblock (Matière Mémoire)
:: Ghost Ensemble recording of Catherine Lamb's interius/exterius
:: New accordion works for Ben by Nomi Epstein, Michael Pisaro, and Carolyn Chen
15 Questions interview with Tobias Fischer (text)
PRXLUDES interview with Zygmund de Somogyi (text)
KCBX Arts Beat: Ghost Ensemble's "Sensuous Sounds" interview with Melanie Senn and Sky Macklay (text/audio)
Other Minds Podcast: Ghost Ensemble interview with Joseph Bohigian and Sky Macklay (audio)
SURROUNDSCAPES: The Future of Music interview with Graeme Harrison (audio)
"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
"immense magnitude … frequencies melting your very walls … areas of sonic dynamism that work their trembling magic … shiver me timbres"
— Darren Bergstein, Downtown Music Gallery
Ben Richter is a composer, accordionist, and founding director of Ghost Ensemble.