SONIC MEDITATIONS featuring GHOST ENSEMB

Experiential sound-making and beautiful music for you!

Ghost Ensemble comes to the Flow Chart Space for a concert of Sonic Meditations rooted in the Deep Listening practice of mentor Pauline Oliveros (a Deep Listening workshop, at 3pm, precedes the performance).

Musicians of Ghost Ensemble will be joined by special guests David Rothenberg and Jeffrey Lependorf. The concert will include a special performance of “Hudson Air (Arctic Air)” by Pauline Oliveros.

Expect to be transported!

This event will also be livestreamed through WGXC (“radio for open ears”) on the WGXC Flow Chart Foundation livestream page.

Ghost Ensemble fosters groundbreaking music that blurs borders of genre, style, and scene, expanding perceptual horizons through shared immersive experience. Collaboration with living composers is its primary focus. Since its 2012 inception, the ensemble has performed over 100 works and commissioned dozens of new compositions by a diverse range of highly original composers who share a belief in music’s potential for individual and community transformation. Rethinking the norms of composer/performer collaboration, Ghost Ensemble conducts innovative workshops to nurture adventurous new music over the course of multiple seasons. The resulting work often draws from contemporary classical, experimental chamber music, avant-garde jazz, environmental sound art, and territories in between. Ghost Ensemble has also maintained close engagement with the work of ensemble mentor Pauline Oliveros and her Deep Listening practice, collaborating on events including the release concert for her Anthology of Text Scores at Eyebeam (2013) and releasing premiere recordings of Angels and Demons (2018) and Mountain Air (2021). Critics have praised Ghost Ensemble performances as “prodigious … a thrilling listen” (Christian Carey, Sequenza21), “wonderful work … both exhilarating and a bit scary” (Peter Margasak, Bandcamp Daily), “beautifully performed and recorded … a body-felt sound mass … a multifaceted texture that evokes the primeval” (Meg Wilhoite, Sound Meets Sound), and “cloudy, mysterious, and dark … Beckettian in its slow spread … certainly a group to keep an eye on” (Brian Olewnick, Just Outside). The group’s newest album, ensemble director Ben Richter’s Rewild, was released October 2024 on New World Records.