{"id":521,"date":"2019-08-01T20:30:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=521"},"modified":"2019-08-10T09:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T09:22:57","slug":"ben-richter","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/ben-richter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Richter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gmail-p1\"><strong>Ben Richter\u00a0<\/strong>is a composer, accordionist, and director of Ghost Ensemble. In his music, sound worlds of constant transformation emerge through shifting timbres, distant pulses, and microtonal fluctuations, a flux aesthetic inspired by the ebb and flow found in quantum and geological time.\u00a0<span class=\"gmail-s1\">His<\/span> artistic research explores the potential of listening to create experiences of community healing, focusing on music that shifts our attention, awareness, and experience of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\"><span class=\"gmail-s2\"> Ben Richter\u2019s chamber ensemble <\/span>work <i>Wind People<\/i>, \u201ca massive drone of lapidary detail that thrums, throbs, and glides with surging and ebbing density\u201d (Peter Margasak, <i>Bandcamp Daily<\/i>), was featured on Ghost Ensemble\u2019s debut LP, <i>We Who Walk Again <\/i>(2018, Indexical); <span class=\"gmail-s2\">the solo album <i>Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean<\/i> (2017, Infrequent Seams)<\/span> pairs orchestral and electronic works with the title track\u2019s immersive just-intonation accordion soundscape, <span class=\"gmail-s2\">hailed by Stephen Smoliar (<i>The Rehearsal Studio<\/i>) as \u201clikely to offer a profound impact on the very nature of listening\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>In addition to Ghost Ensemble, performers that have commissioned and premiered Ben Richter\u2019s work include SEM Ensemble, Wild Rumpus, Hypercube, Ostravska Banda, Canticum Ostrava, Capella Ornamentata, Nieuw Ensemble, accordion duo Toeac, trombonist William Lang, and harpist Somna M Bulist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p1\">A student of Pauline Oliveros, Ben Richter holds degrees from Bard College and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and is currently completing the DMA at the California Institute of the Arts, where he teaches composition, accordion, and music theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Richter\u00a0is a composer, accordionist, and director of Ghost Ensemble. In his music, sound worlds of constant transformation emerge through shifting timbres, distant pulses, and microtonal fluctuations, a flux aesthetic inspired by the ebb and flow found in quantum and geological time.\u00a0His artistic research explores the potential of listening to create experiences of community healing, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"featured_media":626,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}