{"id":15023,"date":"2026-09-04T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elektronmusikstudion.se\/?page_id=15023"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:48:21","slug":"benjamin-thigpen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elektronmusikstudion.se\/en\/guest-composers\/guest-composers-2027\/benjamin-thigpen\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Thigpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-constrained\">\n\t<p class=\"mb-4 font-light font-text-font text-large-text leading-large-text md:mb-10\">At EMS March 2&ndash;21, 2027<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"richtext w-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/elektronmusikstudion.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/Benjamin-Thigpen-beskuren-1024x586.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elektronmusikstudion.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/Benjamin-Thigpen-beskuren-1024x586.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elektronmusikstudion.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/Benjamin-Thigpen-beskuren-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elektronmusikstudion.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/Benjamin-Thigpen-beskuren-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elektronmusikstudion.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/Benjamin-Thigpen-beskuren.jpg 1255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"w-constrained richtext\"><external-link-icon>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Benjamin Thigpen makes experimental music for loudspeakers. He does not feel that he \u201ccreates\u201d this music, but rather that he finds it: he helps it to manifest and to take form. Like a gardener&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"w-constrained richtext\"><external-link-icon>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not based on concepts or logical thinking, but on the pure physical and spiritual experience of sound. He no longer believes in words. He is not \u201csaying\u201d anything through the music; it is the sounds themselves which speak, or sing, or dance.<\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"w-constrained richtext\"><external-link-icon>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More and more, his musical inspirations are the movements, shapes and sounds of nature.<\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"w-constrained richtext\"><external-link-icon>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"w-constrained richtext\"><external-link-icon>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>What is noise (music) to you?<br><\/em>Noise is a manifestation of truth.<\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"w-constrained richtext\"><external-link-icon>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Why do you make it?<br><\/em>To be in touch \u2013 in an immediate and total connection \u2013 with the real.<br>To participate in the opening up of what is undisclosed and unexplained.<br>To be drawn into a vortex of primal energy\u2026<\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"w-constrained richtext\"><external-link-icon>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; B.Thigpen, in <em>Noise in and as Music <\/em>(Huddersfield University Press, 2013)<\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"w-constrained richtext\"><external-link-icon>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Thigpen makes experimental music for loudspeakers. 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