Tree Rock Nebula, BY Ben Richter
Ben Richter is a composer, accordionist, and director of Ghost Ensemble. Inspired by nonhuman consciousness, emergent perceptual horizons, and music’s potential to create experiences of community healing, Ben’s compositions mark humanity’s transient yet vital role within the immensity of geologic time. A student of Pauline Oliveros, Ben also explores the extended microtonal and timbral potential of the accordion in solo works such as Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean, hailed by Stephen Smoliar as “likely to offer a profound impact on the very nature of listening.”