New 2CD Aurogeny coming December 22 — accordion, string quartet, & ensemble works
"15 Questions" Interview with Tobias Fischer
UPCOMING EVENTS
Dec. 10 :: Brooklyn, NY
Performance with David Rothenberg at Spectrum
Dec. 13 :: Brooklyn, NY
Laramidia world premiere & Aurogeny release concert at Scholes Street Studio (with Lily Maase and James Ilgenfritz)
Dec. 17 :: Oakland, CA
Laramidia on SFSound mosswood series
Jan. 7 :: Northampton, MA
Deep Listening Workshop at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity
Jan. 12 :: Los Angeles, CA
World premiere of new work for House On Fire Trio
Jan. 13 :: Los Angeles, CA
Laramidia at Oracle Egg
Feb. 4 :: Washington, DC
Laramidia at Rhizome
Feb. 25 :: Baltimore, MD
RECENT RELEASES
Accordion on Ulrich Krieger's three-album Aphotic series (room34)
COMING SOON
New compositions for loadbang and House on Fire Trio
New accordion works for Ben by Nomi Epstein, Michael Pisaro, and Carolyn Chen
Exploratory LP with Phill Niblock (Matière Mémoire)
James Ilgenfritz's Apophenia V (Infrequent Seams)
"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
SURROUNDSCAPES: The Future of Music
listen here for Ben's podcast interview with Graeme Harrison
KCBX Arts Beat: Ghost Ensemble's "Sensuous Sounds"
listen here for Ben's interview with Melanie Senn and Sky Macklay
Ben Richter is a composer, accordionist, and founding director of Ghost Ensemble.