ben hackbarth composer

hub for flute, piano, percussion and electronics

program notes

As a composer I am very interested in illusion and dialogue between acoustic and electronic forces and this concept has been a central component of my pieces for instruments and electronics. However, in hub I wanted employ a physical approach to achieve a more intimate sense of timbral and spatial similarity. This resulted in several instances where speakers are placed in an acoustic body so that the sonic results a hybrid between the physical object and the speaker's stimulus. This limits the degree of freedom of the sonic result and something is synthesized that is very similar to an instrument. My hope is that, through this greater sense of intimacy, I can more easily transverse the space between electronic and acoustic materials. Many thanks to SEAMUS for the funding that made this work possible.


 

[[STEREO version]]

kathleen gallagher, flute; katalin lucaks, piano; greg stuart, percussion
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Upcoming Peformances

· 5/27/2010 -- crumbling walls and wandering rocks will be performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble in New York, NY.

· 3/11/2010 -- open end will be performed by Brian Archinal in Tempe, AZ.

· 12/9/2009 -- String Quartet no. 1 will be played by Ensemble SurPlus in E-Werk Grosser Saal, Freiburg, Germany.

· 9/11/2009 -- disjointed movements will be played at the Contempuls Contemporary Music Festival in Prague.