Diminished But Returning - mvt 1 (Madawaska String Quartet)

Contact me at bret.bohman@gmail.com

Bret Bohman is a composer, producer, guitarist and artistic director of the chamber classical group Khemia Ensemble. With a background in electronic music production and jazz guitar, his concert works draw from these influences as well as modernist and post-modernist traditions. Recent works have explored memory loss, art as healing, acoustics of ancient sites and travel.

Mr. Bohman's compositions have been heard throughout the United States at various venues and festivals including New Music Festival at Bowling Green State University, Strange Beautiful Music X in Detroit, New Music Gathering 3, the Aspen Music Festival, the New York City Electronic Music Festival at Abrons Playhouse, the 73rd Wellesley Composers Conference, Trinosophes, Toronto International Electronic Symposium, SCI National Conference, SEAMUS National Conference, Electronic Music Midwest, Atlantic Music Festival, Society for New Music, 3rd Annual TUTTI Festival and more. His music has received awards or recognition from the Society of New Music (Brian Israel Award), the National Federations of Musics Club, ASCAP and the Michigan Music Teachers Association.

In 2015 he co-founded the Khemia Ensemble, a chamber music group dedicated to commissioning and presenting diverse selections of contemporary voices in innovative ways. The ensemble will perform at Strange Beautiful Music X in Detroit in September while recent performances were at New Music Gathering at Bowling Green State University and the Latin IS America Festival at Michigan State University. The ensemble has held residencies at the University of Michigan, the National University of Bogota, Colombia and the National University of Cordoba, Argentina. In the summer of 2017 they were in residence at Avaloch Farms for the second year in a row.

New album: https://sundarsubramanian.bandcamp.com/album/opening

Composer, guitarist, theorist, educator, originally from Ottawa. Here, you will find a mix of acoustic and electronic compositions as well as demonstration recordings of more standard classical and jazz repertoire on guitar.

Compositeur/guitariste/théoricien/enseignant canadien, originaire d'Ottawa. Voici des compositions acoustiques et électroacoustiques ainsi que des interpretations des morceaux du répertoire standard classique et jazz.

Nouvel album: https://sundarsubramanian.bandcamp.com/album/opening

My art practice involves sounds, images and things in-between.  Temporality is an ongoing theme.  Sounds, images and other media evoke different space-times; treating time materially, reflecting on phenomenological, psychic, technological, social and political realities.  My work often involves grids (regular and irregular), pulsed and free time, noise, drones, melodic material that ranges between static, meandering and narrative and directional, the use of voice (including so called “extended techniques”), sounds of indefinite origin with ambiguous properties, the interplay between meticulous and process-based working methods and more intuitive approaches to composing or arranging materials, and the use of relatively “free” improvisation.

Diminished But Returning - mvt 1 (Madawaska String Quartet)

Sundar Subramanian