Sat May 20th, 2023 – 7pm Center for New Music – 55 Taylor St. San Francisco, CA 94102 Tickets/info: https://centerfornewmusic.com/event/r-beny-and-george-hurd/ After almost two years living in Berlin, I’m returning to San Francisco for my first show since 2020. Sat May 20th I’ll be performing a solo ambient electro-acoustic set with[…]
Feast your eyes on an interview I did with the good people at the CSMA about my Echolocation project, and what you can expect to see/hear at my solo show on April 6th. There’s a LOT going into this one, both musically and visually, and I’m itchin’ to bring it[…]
I’m playing an incredible solo show on April 6th as part of the CSMA’s Electronic Music Festival. I’ll be performing some wild new, all-electronic pieces both from my Echolocation project and beyond, all composed of field recordings I collected around the world, woven together with percussive beats, original recordings of[…]
I wrote a song for my wife that I played to her in a small town in southern Portugal on the day I proposed to her. It took years of sneaky recording sessions and late-night writing to make it happen; calling in favors from friends in Chicago, Munich, and San[…]
My solo show at Spectrum was fantastic. Their Brooklyn venue is strange and beautiful, somewhere between the inside of a wooden ship and an industrial warehouse that’s been outfitted to present the weirdest music imaginable. I was supporting a slew of different free jazz artists who played a wildly haunting[…]
UPDATE: FESTIVAL IS SOLD OUT – check the website for availability. All exhibits are still open to the public though. The Hurd Ensemble is performing as part of the Community School for Music and Art’s first Electronic Music Festival. The free three-day fest is showcasing electronic and electro-acoustic acts with[…]
I’ll be heading out to Chico, CA for a set of brand-new music for solo electronics as part of the Decomposition Music Series on Jan 10th. Part of a 4-week residency by the Uncle Dad’s Art Collective, the series focuses on the concept of Decomposition as it relates to art,[…]
As promised, my recordings of Munich, Germany have taken shape in the newest edition of Echolocation. The city has a million stories and facets to dive into, and despite having spent quite a bit of time here over the years I feel like I’m still barely scratching its surface. The[…]
So excited to announce that I’ll be taking part in Codame’s 3D Webfest on June 30th, a film-festival style showcase of Art/Tech taking place at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, dedicated to pushing the boundaries of web-based technology in a film-festival style showcase. I’ll be performing a new piece of music alongside tech wizard Juan Miguel[…]
On Sat Mar 4th, Elevate Ensemble brought their program After Dark to Fort Mason’s Southside Theater in San Francisco. Director Chad Goodman premiered a new piece of mine written specifically for Elevate called Crépuscule, and they did an incredible job performing it. The program was a musical exploration of the night, and he chose to[…]