Here are some snippets of sounds you might hear in my new set of voice/electronics music called Blue Mountain Songs.

Set includes dark ambience, mystical songs, and sculpted improvisations in between them.

Premiere: March 16th 2017 at Mengi, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Other performances to follow...

Blue Mountain Songs - Mengi Preview

As one of the most socially conscious young composers in contemporary classical music, Ted Hearne has drawn on a multitude of influences to create Sound from the Bench—his first project for Cantaloupe Music.

Written for the supple, ethereal voices of Philadelphia’s world-renowned chamber choir The Crossing, the four works presented
here tap into themes as varied as racial divides (Privilege), government secrets (Ripple), love and its dark permutations
(Consent), and corporate personhood in the eyes of the US Supreme Court (Sound from the Bench). Taken as a whole, this is some of Hearne’s most wide-ranging and adventurous work—a siren call that resonates with unusual passion in these politically charged times.

Sound from the Bench

Ted Hearne & The Crossing: Consent

Recorded live with Grant Wallace Band at Littlefield in Brooklyn, NY, 11 April 2017 -- piano improvisation linking our new tune "After Barbarian Days" with oldfave "Oranjestraat."

Barbarian To Oranje

This is the first piece that I ever finished. I was Music Ed. my first semester of undergrad and then switched to Music Comp. by my second semester. I auditioned for the studio using the first sketches of this piece.

Finalist - Metropolitan Winds National Student Composer Competition, 2018

Canis Majoris, Terrell Cordice (2017) - MIDI Demo

"We Travel the Spaceways"
from The Magnificent Pretty Boy
by the Grant Wallace Band

Performed at Chatter, Albuquerque (January 2018)
Ben Hjertmann, voice/percussion
Chris Fisher-Lochhead, viola/voice
Luke Gullickson, piano/voice
Tychiko Cox, voice
Trumpet - Mark Hyams
Clarinet - Mike Gruetzner
Percussion - Jeff Cornelius

We Travel The Spaceways (Homage to Chick Corea)

Flute Duet - Commissioned by Rachel Gross
Performers: Rachel Gross, Caroline Church

Hidden in the Wilderness - a flute duet with piano, Terrell Cordice (2019)

The Long Fingers of Mr. Crogus

Drums: Hinton Edgerton @edgertunes
Bass: Hinton Edgerton @edgertunes
Tenor sax solo: Aaron West @westsax
Cover Art: @mo_odlight

Mango Juice (That's The Type Of Ish)

Ben Hjertmann is a composer, songwriter, and vocalist.

Columbia College High School Summer Institute '02
Conservatorium Van Amsterdam '05
Illinois Wesleyan '07
Northwestern '13
Bang on a Can Summer Institute '13
Appalachian State University '14—>
Grant Wallace Band '11—>
Kong Must Dead '08—>

Blue Mountain Songs - Mengi Preview

Ben Hjertmann

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