Electronic and Electroacoustic Works

Samples: 
vocal source material: Graindelavoix - Responsories for Maundy Thursday, Carlo Gesualdo
synth strings, electronics: Roland FA-08

photo by Ilya Kun

feria quinta - for fixed media samples

Evan Caplinger, violoncello
Dylan DelGiudice, alto saxophone
Joseph Jordan, electric organ

the switch - for alto saxophone, cello, and electric organ

for piano with custom tuning; recorded 6/19/21
tuning and performance - Evan Caplinger

chronophobia - for microtonal piano

for Roland FA-08 synthesizer / workstation

photo by Ilya Kun

a fraction september - for electronics

written and performed by Ben Vanden Heuvel
tuning by Evan Caplinger
12/17/21

it is always darkest before - for microtonal piano

Performed on a Polish-made "Aplo" type hurdy-gurdy with extended techniques by Ben Vanden Heuvel, with electronic amplification and processing

churning void - for amplified hurdy-gurdy

two electric pianos tuned in quarter tones
Ben Vanden Heuvel, electric pianos

duet - for two quarter-tone electric pianos

A composition completed as part of the undergraduate composition seminar with Georg Friedrich Haas at Columbia university. performed 5/2/17 by the TAK Ensemble in Lerner Hall at Columbia.

Photo by Jane Ackermann

eppur si muove -  for soprano and ensemble

Joseph Morag, Lara Lewison, violins;
Sophia Sun, viola
Evan Caplinger, violoncello
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Completed as a senior honors thesis at Columbia University, studying under professor Georg Friedrich Haas; 
Titled after Ginsberg's "Howl"; 'incomparable blind streets of shuddering cloud and lightning in the mind leaping toward poles of Canada & Paterson, illuminating all the motionless world of Time between'

Photo by Ilya Kun

string quartet no. 1 "the motionless world of Time between"

Premiered at Barnard College on April 28, 2018 by ensemble counter)induction:
Carl Bettendorf, conductor
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Adda Kriddler, viola
Robert Burkhart, cello
Benjamin Fingland, clarinet
Adam Marks, piano
Thanks to Georg Friedrich Haas (primary instructor), William Dougherty, Ashkan Behzadi

Photo by Ilya Kun

afterglow - for strings, bass clarinet, and piano

Evan Caplinger, cello

Premiered March 9, 2019 in Dodge Hall for Columbia New Music, 2019 Spring Concert no.1; written for and dedicated to my friend Evan

photo by Ilya Kun

projection - for solo cello

Six Movements                                       
I. Motet - 0:00
II. Fever Dreams - 3:58
III. Quarantine - 7:40
IV. Chant of Bodies - 10:07
V. Sarabande - 12:32
VI. Chant of Souls - 17:04

Lara Lewison, violin
Mac Waters, viola
Premiered in Lerner Hall 4/23/19
Recorded 5/6/19

plague art (in 6 mvts) - for violin and viola

Recorded June 27, 2019
Ben Vanden Heuvel - Roland FA-08 Workstation

Photo by Ilya Kun

soft june punk - for electronics

Premiered at Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall on March 7, 2020

Evan Caplinger - violoncello
Dylan DelGiudice - guitar
Joseph Jordan - piano
Ben Vanden Heuvel - electronics
Mac Waters - viola

photo by Ilya Kun

become benny morio - for ensemble with fixed electronics

guitar and electronics / sound production - ben vanden heuvel
recorded 4/4/20

photo by Ilya Kun

remnants of contact - for guitar and electronics

Based on a watercolor by Celeste Bleiberg

Ben Vanden Heuvel - Roland FA-08 Workstation

chloroplastic - for electronics

All compositions by Ben Vanden Heuvel;
American contemporary classical composer
Columbia University '18 
2018 Joseph H. Bearns Prize winner in composition
photos by Ilya Kun, Jane Ackermann, Ben Vanden Heuvel

Ben Vanden Heuvel

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