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May 26, 2023

Silent Winter, out now on 7K! compilation, Ambient Layers. Vol. II

George Hurd

George Hurd is a San Francisco-based composer whose work has focused on chamber music, electronic music, and the fascinating world where they intersect. Upon moving to the Bay Area in 2007, he formed The Hurd Ensemble, an electro-acoustic chamber group made up of some of the Bay Area’s best musicians, dedicated to performing his compositions for small-to-medium chamber ensemble and electronics. His work often fixates on the role of memory in music, using electronic sounds that are made entirely by him, recorded on his travels from the past 15 years, each encapsulating a memory from the place and time they were recorded.

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Echolocation explores my process of writing electronic and electroacoustic music based on location-specific, memory specific audio recordings. By using sounds recorded entirely within a geographic area, as well as recording with local musicians, my pieces are meant to conjure up the essence of a place both emotionally, intellectually and physically. Rather than just being inspired by the spirit of a city, the pieces are based upon and built from raw audio material collected from each place's sonic landscape. The end result is a musical representation of a location that is both literal and artistic, bringing the place itself into the music. Subscribe