George Hurd
Electro-acoustic composer for chamber/electronic/film/podcast/dance. Founder of The Hurd Ensemble. to the Palace of Fine arts in San Francisco.
George Hurd is a Berlin/San Francisco-based composer whose work focuses on chamber music, electronic music, and the fascinating world where they intersect. His music has been performed across the US from the Kennedy Center in D.C. He formed The Hurd Ensemble a decade ago, an electro-acoustic chamber group made up of some of the Bay Area’s best musicians, dedicated to performing his compositions fo
New music out now for preorder on the Accidental Records compilation "Antechamber Music III." Full album is out Aug 9 on tape + digital but you can still get my track “Nuremberg” now via Bandcamp preorder. Such an incredible cast of musicians on here. Honored to be among them. Here's a li'l taste - preorder link in comments below
It's all bleak winter feels here since the sun started setting at fu***ng 4pm. I know it's early but I cannot WAIT for spring. Headphones for sure on this one.
Finally got some footage of me performing with gesture controllers at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. Did up some improvised visuals as well which really fun. Lovely to make music for all my friends in the Bay again. It was my first fully “ambient” set aka all slo jams so I’ll def be posting more of this soon
05/06/2023
Excited to share some new electro-acoustic music for the 7K "Ambient Layers Vol. II" compilation. I wrote the bones of this while on pandemic lock down shortly after moving to Germany. When asked to contribute to this record I decided to rework it and add harp, flutes, cellos, and piano.
I'm joined by a slew of incredible artists, many of which I've been listening to for years: KMRU, Loscil, Olec Mün, Jacaszek, Skalpel, Wataru Sato/Gecko, ARIGTO, JoyCut, Cubenx, TOMAT, Jonsjooel, Dienne Bogaerts, Psycho & Plastic, Sundrugs, Inlet Industry, and Earth Begins x Stead x Gommarosa.
Massive thanks to Elyse Weakley for playing the flute/piano parts, Anton Estaniel for cello, and Meredith Clark for harp.
Ambient Layers Vol.II, by Various Artists 21 track album
Tomorrow with r beny at the Center for New Music, SF.
Solo/ambient/heavily improvised/with video projections - definitely not like any other show I've done.
18/05/2023
Best night hike ever with Joel St. Julien. So good to see this guy and this city again.
18/05/2023
Can't wait. Saturday at 7pm. I'm up first, followed by r beny. See you all then.
Hey y'all, we've hosting George Hurd and r beny for a fantastic evening of deeply emotional and personal ambient music! Come let the sound wash over you on Saturday night, tickets available on Eventbrite!!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/617986001767
San Francisco friends - Sat May 20th at the Center for New Music I'll be performing a live ambient set along with the fantastic modular synth musician, r beny. My first SF show in yeeeeears.
07/04/2023
Ever wondered what your life will sound like when when you reach the end of it? I went deep on this with your favorite Grammy-winning percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion for our album Currents Vol. 1. It's Bandcamp Friday and 100% of any album purchases go to the artists (hurray), so today would be THE day to check it out. Enjoy!
It's Bandcamp Friday! Our EP "Currents / Volume 1" is available on Bandcamp, and today 100% of proceeds go to artists. 🤑
Support TCP directly and hear works from George Hurd, Clarice Assad, Alexis C. Lamb, and Rodrigo Bussad, performed by us🔥
Listen and support 🔗🙏🏽: https://bit.ly/Currents-Vol-1
01/09/2022
Really proud of this one: I made a music video for the middle movement of “What Stories We Tell” with Third Coast Percussion. It runs through the memories of a person’s life, this movement looking back at youth from teenage years through your 30s ("youth" sure why not) using archival and heavily degraded footage I shot and collected. I had a blast making this one. I'm starting to love making videos and visual art these days. I need to do it more often.
Thanks a million to TCP for the stunning performance, as always. Watch it below and stream the record everywhere.
George Hurd + Third Coast Percussion - What Stories We Tell, Mvmt III The third movement of What Stories We Tell, performed by the Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion. I wrote this piece to depict the full remembered life of ...
26/08/2022
New record out today with with the Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion! I’ve got a five-movement electroacoustic piece on this one called “What Stories We Tell,” alongside some stellar composers: Clarice Assad, Alexis C. Lamb, and Rodrigo Bussad. It was an honor to work with TCP and a game-changing experience as a composer. A million thanks to Sean Connors, David Skidmore, Robert Dillon, and Peter Martin for being such grotesquely talented, open-minded dudes.
Purchase Currents Vol. 1 on Bandcamp (link below) or stream anywhere.
Looking for a rising sound.
23/05/2022
Tonight the DePaul University School of Music Percussion Ensemble is playing "What Stories We Tell" - my percussion 4tet with electronics - in Chicago. It KILLS me that I'm going to miss yet another performance of this piece in my hometown, but I'm hoping some of you all can check it out. It's got some great music on the bill, including pieces from Philip Glass and David Skidmore (of Third Coast Percussion who happened to have commission my piece last year :)
It's a FREE show both in-person and via live-stream (lucky you!). Just register at the link in the comments.
Pulling antique loops from old tapes
07/03/2022
Jesus I almost forgot about that time I was in a movie with
Remembering fall
Tryin to untangle these webs
14/01/2022
13/01/2022
Today's a good day - the fellas of Third Coast Percussion went above and beyond to film a beautiful studio performance of the piece I wrote them, "What Stories We Tell." A testament to art during the Covid age - this whole thing was written, workshopped, rehearsed, premiered and filmed without ever actually all meeting in person. What?!? But I couldn't be happier with the piece or the experience. Such phenomenal guys to work with - it couldn't have written it without them.
Click below and give it a listen and a like. Hope you enjoy it.
"What Stories We Tell" by George Hurd "What Stories We Tell" by George HurdRecorded June 2021 at Third Coast Percussion's rehearsal studio.Video and audio capture and editing by Colin D Campbell....
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