A mix of Ben Hjertmann's music from a variety of projects.

Ben Hjertmann Mix

from Grant Wallace Band's maritime mini-musical, <i>Fo'c's'le</i> (2013)

Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, soprano
Eliza Brown, saw
Austin Wulliman, violin
Chris Fisher-Lochhead, viola
Chris Wild, cello
Luke Gullickson, piano

music & lyrics by Ben Hjertmann

A Message From Beyond

from Nicholas Phillips 2014 album, American Vernacular, New Focus Recordings.

http://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/american-vernacular

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/american-vernacular-new-music/id787464547

On the Drawing of Constellations

Live at Ben Hjertmann's Doctoral Recital, Northwestern U, May 2012.

Luke Gullickson, piano
Ben Hjertmann, inside-piano

Recorded by Bill Milgram, Milgram Music.

Bicinium (2012) for piano w/ assistant

two unrelated items, except they are both fruit, one suspects

Have An Orange An Elephant Fruit (2009)

A collaboration with the Friction Quartet from San Francisco, recorded live in concert at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.

String Quartet No 3, "Within West"

Written for Bearthoven (Karl Larson, Pat Swoboda, Matt Evans) and recorded live at the premiere, "Van Dyke Park," Red Hook, NY.

A Cause for the Augurs

Bhyxe is scored for flute, clarinet, viola, cello, and electronics.  The electronics mostly consist of a microtonal counterpoint of transposed recordings of the composer playing clarinet.

This recording is of the Callithumpian Consort conducted by Steve Drury at Northwestern University, 2009.

Bhyxe

Performed by the Chicago Composers Orchestra, Matthew Kaspar, conductor, June 2011.

A Corvid History Of Light

Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Mallory Thompson, conductor.  Premiere performance at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, February 26th, 2016.

Last Lights In The North By Ben Hjertmann (NU-SWE Premiere 2 - 26 - 16)

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

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—>