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Dua Lipa - Dance The Night (DE SOFFER REMIX)

Rhubarb Orc. 19.53 Rev

For solo electronics, written and performed by George Hurd. Premiered by Kinetech Arts as part of their 2nd Anniversary Event at SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco. 
Written to accompany choreography and dance by Kinetech dancers Daiane Lopes da Silva and Yu Kondo Reigen.

Watch a portion of the performance at https://youtu.be/Zcec2Ouaih4

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the murmur of yearning

Written for piano and electronics. Premiered in 2015 at the Center for New Music, San Francsico. Recorded at Spicemix, San Francisco. Performed by Elyse Weakley. 

Vivarium - for piano and electronics(rough mix)

Closing credits to Gus Van Sant's film, The Sea of Trees, composed by Mason Bates. 
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Sea of Trees

The Sea of Trees - Closing Credits - Mason Bates

"Photic" the lead track off of Nightmare Light's self-titled 2016 EP. NL is George Hurd and Joel St. Julien, dual composers/electronic musicians based in San Francisco. Purchase and stream the EP at https://nightmarelight.bandcamp.com/

Nightmare Light - Photic

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The first song from George Hurd's "Echolocation," a subscription-based project focused on creating music made with location-specific audio recordings. This opening track is about Oslo, Norway, and uses sounds recorded entirely within Oslo to conjure the essence of the city both emotionally and physically. Rather than just being inspired by the city's spirit, it is built from raw audio material collected from Oslo's sonic landscape. The end result is a musical representation of it that is both artistic and literal, bringing the place itself into the music.

Every 4-6 weeks will be a new piece based on a new location from my travels in Europe. Next we'll be hitting Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Belgium, the Netherlands and more to create a kaleidoscope of music based on places in each country. 

Learn more at www.georgehurd.com/echolocation

Echolocation: Oslo (excerpt)

The first track from George Hurd's travel-based Echolocation project: music written about distant places using sound collected within each location. 
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Echolocation - Oslo, Norway

The second track from George Hurd's travel-based Echolocation project: music written about distant places using musicians and sounds collected within each location. Written for flute, steel pans, harp, and piano and electronics. Recorded in Wemding, Germany. 
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Echolocation - Bavaria, Germany

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The 3rd piece for George Hurd's "Echolocation" project, this iteration was created specifically for Codame, an art + tech organization based in San Francisco. Created an interactive piece for their 3D Web Fest with visual artist/coder/tech wiz Juan Miguel de Joya. The full piece was premiered and performed on June 30, 2017 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (watch performance at https://youtu.be/u-Qxs5FePBs), and included projections that visualized the music within digitally illustrated imagery of San Francisco that reacted to Hurd's playing. 

The piece itself consists of iconic field recordings collected around the city, including but not limited to: numerous foghorns, the BART train, the F Line bells, the Cable Car Museum, the seals at Pier 39, Chinatown street noise, the Wave Organ, the sounds of the harbor at Marina Green, MUNI bus sounds, waves in the Bay, and so much wind, wind, wind.

Echolocation - San Francisco, CA

KCRW's Chery Glaser talks to the composer behind a new opera that looks at the life of Steve Jobs.