"This Is Exactly" premiered at the Berklee Electronic Production and Design Faculty Recital on March 23, 2022 on Twitch TV.   The piece was written during COVID quarantining and speaks to those times in our lives when things out of our control suddenly change. The journey of hope and innocence to acceptance of the unexpected is full of strong human emotions. This piece journeys one of those experiences in my life.

This Is Exactly

The Underground Forest, the debut CD release from well-known sound designer and electronic instrument developer Jennifer Hruska, is a deep musical journey into the artist's personal life. A unique blend of alternative pop, rock and ethnic-electronica, the songs are inspired by the book Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Ballantine Books) and is dedicated to all "wild women" traveling in the ancient underground forests of their lives.

Sealskin Soulskin

Dirty Goddess

Hold Me Down

La Que Sabe

For piano and soprano voice. Poetry by Mary Oliver.

Sleeping In The Forest

For piano and baritone voice. Poetry by William Carlos Williams.

Brothers

This piece was commissioned by Kathleen LeBlanc-Hood and performed at the Women's Concert at Boston Conservatory in 2011, a benefit for women with breast cancer, including Kathleen's mother to which this piece is dedicated.

Lynn Hoffman Billings - Live

Composed while doing sound design work at Kurzweil Music Systems. This piece started from some engineering errors in a piano sample.

Piano Errors

My rendition of being caught in a space bubble. Created using the SONiVOX plugins Wobble and Twist (which I also co-created).

Space Bubble - Live

Original Music and sound effects for the play Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, performed by Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Natick, MA

Weird Goodby Music

World Falling Away

Suspenseful  Strings

Delivery

Time Travel

Longing

Sad Underworld Music

The Fall

Dizzy

Dripping

Underworld

CyberFin was written for a virtual reality installation called "Swim with the Dolphins" way back in 1994.  Originally premiered at SigGraph, it went on to find a permanent home in SantaMonica. Users lie in an enclosed environment on a bed of gel, with headphones and 3D goggles showing footage of dolphins swimming around you. As such the music is very ambient, watery and simple.

CyberFin

Live performance with Matt Sharrock on marimba and myself on electronics.

Space Walk - Live

Music for a short promo video for Christian Sasse's out of this world (literally) astro photography.  Go here to view and share. https://youtu.be/uMEKYlk-lr4

Cosmic Clock 30s clip

Welcome! I am a composer, pianist, sound designer, synthesist, and entrepreneur with original music that spans a few different genres over the years. I hope you enjoy it. There is more to come!  ~peace

Jennifer Hruska

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