I love these small moments. The intimate sounds of the instruments portray your ideas very well.

John Rot's "whether wandering" (2014)
Martha Cargo, flute
Sky Macklay, oboe
Ben Richter, accordion
Hannah Levinson, viola
Maria Hadge, cello
Joshua Morris, bass

John Rot :: whether wandering

Bookworms - "Modes of Transportation" Excerpt

My work performed at MufoCo concert series in Brooklyn
November 2016

Performers:
Erin Rodgers, Zach Herchen, Assaf Gidron, Dan Joseph, Craig Sheperd, Sandy Coffin, Sam Sfirri, Kris Wettstein and Jesse Greenberg

MufoCo November 2016

Recorded live at the Shadowbox, Durham, North Carolina, 13 November 2016. Concert with Cyanotype.

Shadowbox, Durham, NC, 13.11.2016

Wounded Keens (Live)

One of my favorite sounds as a child was the sound of the wind, when lying in the grass with closed eyes.
What else seems as free as the wind? As powerful, as gentle? As transient, as eternal?
I was once in a group composition workshop with Bunita Marcus and Pauline Oliveros, and mentioned the sound of the wind. Bunita asked Pauline if she wanted to embody the wind sounds. “Oh, yes,” said Pauline, “I am the wind!”
I suppose Wind People has something to do with drawing a sense of peace and comfort from our smallness, transience, and fragility in the face of an overwhelming immensity.

— Ben Richter

World premiere performance by Ghost Ensemble (Martha Cargo, Sky Macklay, Ben Richter, Lucia Stavros, Chris Nappi, Hannah Levinson, Meaghan Burke, James Ilgenfritz, Rebekah Griffin Greene, Carl Bettendorf)
at the Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, 15 December 2016
Recorded by Alexis Berthelot

Ben Richter :: Wind People

The first track from "A Crow Looked At Me" by Mount Eerie
(ELV040 from P.W. Elverum & Sun, March 24th, 2017)

available here:
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"Real Death" by Mount Eerie (from "A Crow Looked At Me")

Composed for Wild Up new music collective as a part of the 2016 LA Philharmonic Young Composer's Intensive.

Floating Gardens

Performed by the Fusik Larson Duo: 
Jim Fusik, tenor sax
Karl Larson, piano

DEN-si-ty, DEN-si-ty, (breathe) DEN-si-ty, den-SI-ty, den-SI-ty, (breathe) den-SI-ty, den-si-TEEE, den-si-TEEE, (breathe) den-si-TEEE
duh-AN-si-ty, duh-AN-si-ty, (breathe) duh-AN-si-ty, DUH-an-si-ty, DUH-an-si-ty (breathe) DUH-an-si-ty, duh-an-SI-ty, duh-an-SI-ty (breathe) duh-an-SI-ty (etc. etc.)
DANCITY DANCITY DANCITY Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
In other words, Jim traverses phrases of multiphonics with the grace and agility of a dancer, systematically adding and enlonging and exploiting subtle differences in density, loudness, and pitch content while Karl dances among equal-tempered shadows of said multiphonics.

Density Dancity

Pauline Oliveros's "Horse Sings from Cloud"
Areté, November 24, 2019
Performed by Ghost Ensemble:
Margaret Lancaster, flute
Ben Richter, accordion
Lucia Stavros, harp
Carrie Frey, viola

Pauline Oliveros :: Horse Sings From Cloud

Trio for harp, flute and viola

Performed by Ghost Ensemble at Areté venue and gallery, Brooklyn November 2019

Margaret Lancaster(flute)
Lucia Stavros (harp)
Carrie Frey(viola)

After some time away from composing notated music, being occupied more with open and text scores, the lovely Ghost Ensemble approached me for a piece, and what came out is an actual score and this lovely performance in November 2019. 

Thank you Ben Richter and Ghost Ensemble for organizing this sensitive, nuanced and thoughtful performance of a piece that could have gone many different ways.

Please write me if you'd like to take a look at the score!

Ben Richter :: Wind People

Ghost Ensemble

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