Electronic musician/composers r beny and George Hurd will perform individual sets of deeply emotional and personal ambient music. They use machines to create intricate and intensely human music, filled with towering walls of harmony, entrancing melody, and immersive visuals. r beny’s mastery of modular synths is widely celebrated across numerous beloved records, drawing inspiration from the inexplicable beauty of nature. Hurd dives deep into the hypnotic, nostalgic, and densely layered electro-acoustic sounds from his life, travels, and love of both tape-processed synths and classical music. In doing so he explores the elusive halls of memory, and examines the importance of one’s place in the world.
r beny is the electronic ambient outlet of Northern California-based artist Austin Cairns. Drawing upon the ineffable wonder and volatility of nature and personal emotion, r beny uses modular synthesizers, samplers, and tape loops to weave together a sonic bouquet of organic textures, blissful waves of drone, and decaying melodies carved out of mountains of noise.
George Hurd is an electro-acoustic composer, sound artist, and head of genre-bending group The Hurd Ensemble. A long-term SF resident now living in Berlin, his work obsesses over memory and location, melding a love of classical music, broken synths, and field recordings that “twist the synthetic, electronic material like a bundle of lace” (SF Classical Voice) into powerfully emotive musical landscapes.