a bird flying leaves no mark of its passage
                               - Chuang Tzu

Small fragments of an endlessly pulsating universe: arising and subsiding. Only that... A cloud in the sky, a leaf in the wind, a wave in the sea. The ever-changing colors of the northern sun...

All the sounds were produced by a Buchla 200 analog synthesizer. 

Composed in Sweden at EMS and VICC, and in Paris at GRM. 
Permiered in the festival Présences Electronique (Paris) 2015.
Commissioned by InaGRM 2015.
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Released on the CD “flux” (empreintes DIGITALes, 2017). https://electrocd.com/en/album/5605/Benjamin_Thigpen/Flux
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soon out on CD

pulse   (2015)

a bird flying leaves no mark of its passage
                               - Chuang Tzu

Small fragments of an endlessly pulsating universe: arising and subsiding. Only that... A cloud in the sky, a leaf in the wind, a wave in the sea. The ever-changing colors of the northern sun...

All the sounds were produced by a Buchla 200 analog synthesizer. 

Composed in Sweden at EMS and VICC, and in Paris at GRM. 
Permiered in the festival Présences Electronique (Paris) 2015.
Commissioned by InaGRM 2015.
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Released on the CD “flux” (empreintes DIGITALes, 2017). https://electrocd.com/en/album/5605/Benjamin_Thigpen/Flux

Distributed in Europe by Metamkine.
http://www.metamkine.com/?monlabelrec=8
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flux

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Benjamin Thigpen. Nomad, born in the United States, naturalized in France. After dropping out of conservatory, he studied literature and aesthetics and travelled extensively. He gradually returned to music though electronic composition.

He creates music for loudspeakers – as a composer and as a performing electronic musician. He composes in various European electroacoustic studios (GRM, VICC, EMS, STEIM) and gives concerts throughout the world. 

He has taught computer music at Ircam (Paris), at the University of Washington (United States), and at the Conservatorio di Cuneo (Italy); he currently teaches at Arts2, in Belgium. 

He has put out two solo CDs – "human for scale" (EMF Media 2005), "divide by zero" (Sub Rosa 2011); a third, "flux," will be released on empreintes DIGITALes in  2017. His music also appears on various compilations. 

He performs in the duo "Rust" with instrument inventor and composer Jean-François Laporte, in "Fluid Identities" with cellist Benjamin Carat, and in "Les Frères Bobine" with composer and electronic musician Stefano Bassanese.

He thinks that music is not a language but a lived visceral experience, and that it is not the art of sound but the art of the transcendence of sound.

pulse (2015)

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