Work samples

  • Triptych b

    Triptych b is a composition for solo guitar from Adam G Holofcener's 2025 album, The Technology of Atonement. Video by Brandon Soderberg.

  • Mowder Oyal - Imaginary (excerpt)

    Mowder Oyal plays Hardcore and Free Jazz at the same time. Mowder Oyal is Adam Holofcener, Bashi Rose, James Young, and sun lynn hunter. Mowder Oyal is pronounced like Motor Oil. Mowder Oyal is from Baltimore City. Imaginary is a composition from Mowder Oyal's 2025 album, Prefigurative Musics. This video is an excerpt of the composition. This video is by Brandon Soderberg.

  • Floatin' on a Thread (excerpt)

    Adam Holofcener and Bashi Rose were commissioned by the Baltimore Museum of Art to compose a piece of music in response to Elizabeth Talford Scott's quilt entitled My Dreams. The resulting piece of music, Floatin' on a Thread, was exhibited along with My Dreams in the retrospective Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs: The Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott. To accompany the exhibition, Adam Holofcener and Bashi Rose put together an ensemble to perform Floatin' on a Thread live at the Baltimore Museum of Art on February 4, 2024. This video, which also features performers Michele Blu, Akilah Divine, Scott Patterson, and Cheyanne Zadia, is an excerpt of that performance. 

  • Upresting (stereo excerpt)

    Upresting brings together field recordings from protests of the Baltimore Uprising of April and May 2015. Holofcener channels the audio footage into a sound environment that simulates shifting acoustical sensations as a protester’s body moves about a crowd and through a city. Chanting, street noise, musical performance, and sounds of military equipment swell in a numinous and disquieting experience. At the center of this intense, unpredictable aural situation, each visitor is invited to speak into a microphone and to hear their voice transform into a multitude.

    Upresting was featured as a quadrophonic sound installation as part of a two person exhibition with Antonio McAfee, entitled Black Maths, at the Stamp Gallery in College Park, MD from Oct. to Dec. 2016. Upresting was also installed as a time-limited work at a vacant lot on Pennsylvania Ave. in Baltimore City as part of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Lots Alive program.

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About Adam

Baltimore City  

Adam G Holofcener (AGH, He/They) is a composer and performer from Baltimore, MD, USA.  Their work ebbs and flows between digital and analog efforts with an emphasis on a synergistic interplay between the two: one informing the other, literally and otherwise, ad infinitum.  The theoretical underpinnings for their work come from a variety of sources but have focused as of late on interventions via what they are calling Prefigurative… more

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Adam G Holofcener - Solo Work

Adam G Holofcener has composed and performed music in myriad ways for over the past 25 years. During that entire stretch of time, they have maintained a solo practice under their own name. Their solo music has ranged from electroacoustic experiments to dysfunctional country tunes to atonal etudes. Below are just a few examples of their solo work and performance.

  • § Twelve (12)

    Solo guitar composed and performed by Adam G Holofcener on the album The Technology of Atonement (2025).

  • Drone of the Welsh Dragon

    Synthesis by Adam G Holofcener on the album The Technology of Atonement (2025).

  • Light of the Moon

    Composed and performed by Adam G Holofcener on the album Gee-Za-Whiz (2021). Video by Adam G Holofcener. 

  • § Two (2) at the Red Room, 10/5/23

    Adam G Holofcener performs § Two (2) at the Red Room in Baltimore City on October 5, 2023.

  • § Eleven (11)

    Composed and performed by Adam G Holofcener on the album The Not Really Reckoning Ebb (2023).

  • Mediocre at Sacrifice

    Composed and performed by Adam G Holofcener on the album Everything's Ostensible (2019).

  • Generations

    Composed and performed by Adam G Holofcener on the album Everything's Ostensible (2019).

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    • Mowder Oyal

    Mowder Oyal is a collective of musicians and multidisciplinary artists that make hardcore punk and free jazz at the same time. With musician and arts lawyer Adam Holofcener on guitar, Konjur Collective’s Bashi Rose on percussion and vocals, Mind On Fire's James Young on bassoon, and performance artist Sun Lynn Hunter on vocals, Mowder Oyal (phonetic Baldamore-ese for “motor oil”) is a sonic supergroup that Baltimore Magazine called “the Most Baltimore Band to Ever Baltimore.” As Bandcamp pointed out, Mowder Oyal’s work fits squarely in the lineage of creative music and weird jazz coming out of Charm City since Gary Bartz and Carl Grubbs. Mowder Oyal has played dozens of shows across Baltimore City and beyond. Frequent collaborators include multi-reedist Jamal Moore. Past members include founding vocalist SHAN Wallace (AKA Lor Ugly Yo) and phenom MC Eze Jackson.

    • Imaginary

      Performed by Adam G Holofcener, Bashi Rose, and James Young. 

    • END

      Performed by Adam G Holofcener, SHAN Wallace, Bashi Rose, and James Young. 

    • Bizarre (Live at Wax Atlas - 3/7/25)

      Performed by Adam G Holofcener, Bashi Rose, James Young, and sun lynn hunter.

    • Mowder Oyal Live at Holy Frijoles (4/25/23)

      Performed by Adam G Holofcener, Bashi Rose, James Young, and Eze Jackson.

    • Mowder Oyal at Le Comptoir du Vin (9/11/23)

      Performed by Adam G Holofcener, Bashi Rose, and James Young. 

    • Mowder Oyal Live at the Mercury Theater (4/21/23)

      Performed by Adam G Holofcener, Bashi Rose, James Young, and Jamal Moore.

    • Top of the Morning

      Performed by Adam G Holofcener, Bashi Rose, James Young, and SHAN Wallace. Video by June McCartin. 

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    • Sound Art/Installation/Museum/Gallery

    In addition to their solo composition and ensemble work, Adam G Holofcener has created sound art and installation pieces for museums and galleries, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, School 33, the Stamp Gallery, and more. 

    • Floatin' on a Thread (excerpt)

      Angela Carroll, writing in the Baltimore Beat, said it best: "Floatin’ On A Thread, a commissioned composition from musicians Bashi Rose and Adam Holofcener, offers another conceptual layer to the revamped exhibition. Inspired by Talford Scott’s iconic quilt My Dreams (1987-1998) and her childhood home, Rose and Holofcener spent a week traveling through Chester, South Carolina, gathering field recordings to better assess the ways that environment shaped Talford Scott’s vision. In collaboration with performers Michelle Blu, Bobbi Rush, Cheyanne Zadia, Scott Patterson, Rose, and Holofcener, completed a lush 10-minute, two-channel soundscape. Visitors can sit at an intimate station near My Dreams to listen to the composition." 

    • Upresting (stereo excerpt)

      Upresting brings together field recordings from protests of the Baltimore Uprising of April and May 2015. Holofcener channels the audio footage into a sound environment that simulates shifting acoustical sensations as a protester’s body moves about a crowd and through a city. Chanting, street noise, musical performance, and sounds of military equipment swell in a numinous and disquieting experience. At the center of this intense, unpredictable aural situation, each visitor is invited to speak into a microphone and to hear their voice transform into a multitude.

      Upresting was featured as a quadrophonic sound installation as part of a two person exhibition with Antonio McAfee, entitled Black Maths, at the Stamp Gallery in College Park, MD from Oct. to Dec. 2016. Upresting was also installed as a time-limited work at a vacant lot on Pennsylvania Ave. in Baltimore City as part of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Lots Alive program.

    • Practice/Performance
      Practice/Performance

      Adam G Holofcener's installation, Practice/Performance, used a range of different media to engage participants in what it may mean for an individual to tether oneself legally, metaphysically, and otherwise to another human being in a caregiving posture. Utilizing previously internet-broadcast home video recordings, handcrafted scores featuring graphic notation, an interactive soundscape, and an accompanying tape cassette album release, Practice/Performance manifests a space soaked in amniotic fluid and inquiry.

      What truths, from the banal to the revelatory, do we seek to communicate with those we look after? By what means do we tell them? How do we cope with the exercise? 

      Practice/Performance was exhibited at School 33 in Baltimore City from May 11 to June 23, 2018.

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