Ben Grossman
composer

Ben Grossman is a busy musician and sound artist: improviser, studio musician, composer, and noisemaker. He works in many fields, having played on over 100 CDs, soundtracks for film and television, composition and sound design for theatre, dance, installations, work designed for radio transmission, and live performances spanning early medieval music to experimental electronics. Ben's tools of choice are electronics, percussion, and especially, the vielle à roue (hurdy gurdy), a contemporary electro-acoustic string instrument with roots in the European middle ages. Through extended techniques, and sometimes electronic processing, Ben seeks to use it as a physical interface into sound creation, spontaneous composition and the exploration of acoustics, form and extended aesthetics.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Ben composed Aleatoric Solo Duets for Electro-Acoustic Hurdy Gurdy, which provided the inspiration and ever-evolving soundtrack for Peggy’s 2010 Nuit Blanche ensemble durational performance, Aleatoria, as well as the music for Aleatoric Duet No. 1. Ben also joined Debashis Sinha to improvise music for the 2009 Nuit Blanche durational performance, move.

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