Bennett Kuhn's debut album Open Heart (2019) is an original essay-album composed at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan in May 2019. Published initially through a musician-in-residency position with the Synapsis journal of medical humanities at Columbia University, Open Heart will be released digitally on Astro Nautico in July.

https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/openheart/

Open Heart

Read essay

Auscultation

What Is Certain

I. See. U.

Cutting The Knife

A Place For Pain

Awash In

Bennett Kuhn's meditative neoclassical project bc_ combines minimalist grand piano with shimmering digital electronic experimentation. Composed in quarantine on Long Island on the 100th birthday of Kuhn's recently deceased grandmother, 'Magnolia II' bubbles with mirthful remembrance and wonder at the unfathomable distance of long life as glimpsed in the beautiful magnolia tree's annual cyclical passage from florescence to decrescendo and silence between. 

'Magnolia II' premiered on www.dreamerswelcome.tv on Easter Monday 2020 through artist and phytophile Michelle Ishikawa's Magnolia Interludes series, which invites musicians to score a 15-minute video of Ishikawa's magnolia tree every day in quarantine. "Magnolia Interlude is a daily music video series created to soothe our eyes and ears by memorializing a moment in the life of our magnolia tree." https://www.okimoto.co/magnolia-interludes

Featuring digital instruments by Madam Data Labs: http://www.madamdata.net/

Dedicated to Nani (1920-2019).

More releases by bc_
bc_ - cdr (2019): https://kuhn.bandcamp.com/album/bc-cdr

Magnolia II (2020)

bc_ - Magnolia II (2020)

Bennett Kuhn is a Philadelphia-based music producer, writer, teaching artist, community organizer, and co-owner of the Philadelphia/Brooklyn-based record label @AstroNautico (est. 2009). 

He is musician-in-residency at the Synapsis journal of health humanities at Columbia University and a co-organizer of Philadelphia-based Creative Resilience Collective, a multidisciplinary network of artists, technologists, designers, care providers,  academics, and others working with and for underserved populations in Philadelphia to improve access to quality mental health care.

Mail -> kuhn at astronauti dot co

Aliases:
Bennett Kuhn
Kuhn
Billa Bronx 
_bc
Felix Castenzio 
@bennettcharles 
1/2 of @AVRVM & 
1/2 of @TheIRiseProject

Also released via @CivilMusic / @JASSlive / @IHadAnAccident / @ContemporaryEnergy

Tracks by Bennett Kuhn