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Han Hitchen
Приєднався 9 гру 2019
Han Hitchen (b. 1997) is a composer who writes for a wide range of genres, including various acoustic settings, and electroacoustic works for fixed media and live processing. Their music has been presented at several concerts, festivals, and conferences across the United States, as well as Ecuador, South Korea, Japan, and Mexico.
Hitchen is presently pursuing the M.M. in Composition at Penn State, where he studies with Baljinder Sekhon and Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice. Hitchen holds a Professional Performance Certificate in Music Composition and Technology from Penn State University, as well as a B.M. in Composition from the University of South Florida. Additionally, they serve on the officer board for Living Music, an organization dedicated to the performance and promotion of music by living composers.
for more information, visit hanhitchen.com
Hitchen is presently pursuing the M.M. in Composition at Penn State, where he studies with Baljinder Sekhon and Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice. Hitchen holds a Professional Performance Certificate in Music Composition and Technology from Penn State University, as well as a B.M. in Composition from the University of South Florida. Additionally, they serve on the officer board for Living Music, an organization dedicated to the performance and promotion of music by living composers.
for more information, visit hanhitchen.com
Roles of Matter - for soprano sax & effect pedals
Roles of Matter is a work for soprano saxophone and effect pedals written for Luke Kranyak.
As living entities, we take up space. We often have opportunities to be the center of attention, taking up the entire space with nothing but ourselves. Other times, we play a role in a larger operation, and that larger picture is what captures everyone’s attention rather than the individuals within the group. This work explores both scenarios, with the saxophonist acting both as a unit within a larger picture, and an individual taking up as much space as possible.
Curtis Craig & Jack O'Dell, recording engineers
Score may be purchased here: www.jwpepper.com/11595490.item#viewer-tab
As living entities, we take up space. We often have opportunities to be the center of attention, taking up the entire space with nothing but ourselves. Other times, we play a role in a larger operation, and that larger picture is what captures everyone’s attention rather than the individuals within the group. This work explores both scenarios, with the saxophonist acting both as a unit within a larger picture, and an individual taking up as much space as possible.
Curtis Craig & Jack O'Dell, recording engineers
Score may be purchased here: www.jwpepper.com/11595490.item#viewer-tab
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blending - for brass and percussion quintets
Переглядів 1085 місяців тому
blending is a work for brass quintet and percussion quintet, in which both ensembles explore shared motivic ideas that present themselves in new ways as the piece progresses. Two very seemingly different ensembles shift into one, cohesive unit. blending is a winning piece of the 2024 Penn State Ensemble Call for Scores, and was premiered by the Penn State Grad Brass Quintet and Percussion Ensem...
AN ANNOUNCEMENT: New Saxophone Consortium!
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Join the commission consortium for a new work for alto saxophone and modular accompaniment*! Working title: Perseverance. We face difficult times throughout our lives. At the end of these difficult times, we find a release from them. During these difficult times, we persevere to see the better times. *The modular accompaniment options are as follows: Piano Stereo fixed media Percussion quartet ...
cycles - for flute, fixed media, & film (performance video)
Переглядів 12610 місяців тому
cycles is a work for flute, fixed media, and film. This is a performance video edition featuring flautist Joshua Mallard, as well as the fixed media component. Watch cycles with the original video by Morgan Seiff: ua-cam.com/video/z094YQiztU4/v-deo.html The fixed media featured in cycles is composed of processed samples of flautist Joshua Mallard playing short gestures on flute. The original fi...
burnt trees will never unburn - for sax quartet (score video)
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burnt trees will never unburn is a work for saxophone quartet that is structurally based on the experience of my once close-knit maternal extended family very quickly falling apart as a result of manipulation and distrust. As lies spread from one family member, the rest of the family isolates from each other, unable to trust or understand anyone but themselves, or the story that is most conveni...
brook trout - for solo tuba
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Velvet Brown performs brook trout. brook trout is a work for solo tuba composed for Matty Blanchard. It was composed using a series of numbers driven from the date the tuba was invented (September 12th, 1835) to inform the work’s pitch content and structure. brook trout is named after the fish, as it is Matty’s favorite animal. for more information, visit hanhitchen.com
I - for solo voice
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I (pronounced like the letter “i”) is a work for solo voice written for Nic Stark. It explores the experience a queer person may face when being in the closet around loved ones.
finding, welcoming, cherishing
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Oftentimes we as artists create things, only to struggle finding value in our creative process and creations, especially if no one seems to show appreciation or enjoyment of whatever it is we've made. finding, welcoming, cherishing explores the process of finding worth and value in our creations, and learning to love our art - as well as ourselves - in the process. Utilizing text-based improvis...
cycles - for flute, fixed media, & film
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cycles is a short film created by Morgan Seiff. The flute and fixed media were later composed in 2023 by Han Hitchen. The fixed media is composed of processed samples of flautist Joshua Mallard playing short gestures on flute. cycles depicts a man going through his menstrual cycle. Morgan Seiff, film Han Hitchen, music Joshua Mallard, flute please be advised that this video contains imagery of ...
growing pines - Han Hitchen
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growing pines is a work inspired by the concept of growth and change in regards to places (specifically, cities and small towns). As people inhabit new spaces, they transform them to fit their needs and support their interests. Additionally, the more time someone spends in a place, the more they witness that place grow to fit the needs of other people who inhabit it. Consequently, this may mean...
lumina in tenebris - Han Hitchen & Hypercube
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lumina in tenebris was composed as a part of the Hypercube Composition Lab by Charlotte New Music. The title is a Latin phrase that translates to “lights in the dark,” and serves as a nod to the many fruitful collaborative projects that the composer was involved in throughout the latter half of 2020. This work is dedicated to and written for Hypercube: Erin Rogers, Jay Sorce, Chris Graham, and ...
cracks - for stereo fixed media
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cracks is a work for stereo fixed media in which all sounds are derived from a recording of a tongue drum using a contact mic attached to the top of it. The raw recordings were already either heavily distorted (as a result of the contact mic buzzing ontop of the vibrating drum), or very clear in tone and pitch. The recordings were heavily processed to transform the original material until it be...
Fog - for orchestra
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Fog is a work for orchestra composed throughout 2020, during the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s titled after the concept of “brain fog,” a term used to describe certain symptoms that affect one’s ability to think. These symptoms generally include confusion, memory loss, and a lack of focus or mental clarity. This can be caused by several different things in a person’s life, including stres...
Omnia mutantur, Nihil interit - for solo flute
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Omnia mutantur, Nihil interit is a work for solo flute composed by Han Hitchen, written for Francesca Arnone. The title is Latin for the phrase “everything changes, nothing perishes,” and is loosely based on a transgender person’s social and/or medical transition: while they may change how they present themselves, they are inherently the same person they were before their transition. This conce...
The Senior Recital of Han Hitchen
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Experience music written by composer Han Hitchen during their final years at the University of South Florida. Featuring performances by USF students & faculty, as well as Hypercube. In an effort to have a safe and accessible experience, the entirety of this recital will be pre-recorded, and accessed through a UA-cam premiere link that will be available closer to event. Link to full program: tin...
😂 good job
this piece is horrifying. excellent
Y'know its bad when the sheet music starts looking like what my doctor prescribed me
Don't listen to the negative comments. Music can take many different forms-- given the story in the description (I'm sorry for what happened to your extended family by the way) and the overall tone of the piece, it's clearly meant to be evocative and unsettling, and it excels tremendously in those regards. It takes a lot of courage to pour your heart out and make something unique, it's commendable that you were not only able to do that, but do it well, too
Listening to this made me feel like something was about to give me the stabby stabby special
i love how in 12 the chord sounds blissful, almost like they try and bond but it doesn't happen, same with 24
2 years of experience, how do i play the part with the squiqly lines? i have experience with many different types of music but ive never see this before
funky
Reject modernity. Embrace tradition
Awesome work
cool to stretch what the saxophones can do, but musically, this "modern" saxophone "music" is definetely not my taste idk if its rly music or just squeaks and microtones
beautiful and invigorating piece. jaw dropping. please never stop composing
Can anyone give me some tips on slap tongue techniques? I’m trying to learn it but I just can’t do it. I’m playing tenor and bari.
I love it! 🩵
Love the spectral approach to saxophone
This is beautiful.
Such A Refreshing MasterPiece! Bravo Maestro. Cheers From México City!!!
Congratulations on the collaboration! I hope that you get lots of interest from saxophone players, especially after the crazy sax quartet you put out a few months ago. I am excited to see what you come up with
🎉🎉🎉
My best friend just performed this as part of her quartet recital and I was blown away. The soprano and baritone both moved to the back of the lecture hall towards the end and this piece becomes all the more eerie when saxes are coming at you from four different directions. Incredible piece.
Thank you so much! So glad you got to hear it live. I tuned into the stream and they absolutely nailed it.
Listen to reconstruction on baritone saxaphone also the lines above some of the notes I believe mean teeth on reed and the higher it goes it needs more strength and lower is less
I have seen these types of quartets and solos but I have no idea what the actual name for this style of composure is called.
This is the saxophone quartet arrangement of getting murdered
I’ve never heard a piece like this or that uses contemporary techniques mixed with traditional techniques in quite this way. I typically don’t like contemporary music, but this evokes such visceral emotions of loneliness and pain and I’ve never had a piece do that to me before. Remarkable stuff! Thank you for sharing it!
yo this is what I be feeling in the Minecraft caves
WHAT A AMAZING WORK OF ART. WOW.
amazing composition! very interesting
My quartet bought the score back when it came out 2 months ago and we are having a great time putting it together for our final quartet recital in about a month! Thank you so much for writing this amazing piece we love it!! Sincerely, The Magnolia Quartet🌸
I'm so happy to hear this! I'd love to know more about your performance. Feel free to use the contact page on my website. Thank you, Magnolia Quartet! 🌸💐🌺
Congrats on your performance tonight!
This is exactly how I feel rn
This is shit I love it
Exceptional, thank you.
As a sax player this hurts my soul. I love it but what the everloving fuck
I feel like I Get It but all i can say to that is This Sucks lol(in the most emotionally impactful way ever)(such amazing art thank you) (editing bc im sleepy, I want it to be clear that this frickin rules)
i'm always thinking about this piece
Wow, this piece is so evocative and the visuals are subtle yet effective- I thought the phasing in and out of overlapping footage and the change of lighting with the tonal shift towards the end were just perfect. Also, based on the few compositions of yours that I have seen, you seem like extended technique royalty and you have really good control of the different timbres that you find. Kudos to both you and Joshua!
Thank you for your kind words! Much of the visual techniques are inspired by the original film this was written for (which is much more intense than this performance video).
What a fantastic piece 🩵
Measure 65 is scaring me
I enjoy it , thank you
Planning to perform this for an ensemble festival with my quartet 🙏
So happy to hear that! I’d love to hear more about the performance. If and when you get program info feel free to contact me with the details through my website. ☺️
Glenn branca vibes
I don’t know nearly enough about music as a whole to appreciate this. That being said I don’t really like it yet.
Great music for poopin
That was fantastic. The very end reminded me of a hurt dog crying.
this sounds incredibly cool! definitely felt what you were describing in the description.
this is sick as hell. some moments in particular are just so beautiful. well done👌🏻
Average day in the life of a saxophonist 🥰
I FHCKI MY LOVE BARI RXTENDED TECHNIQUE
This gives me "The Sacred Veil" vibes from Eric Whitacre
Seismologist: getting some interesting activity Saxophonist: I can play that
This sounds like a score for a Twilight Zone episode.