gradualmente, el hermoso universo

gradualmente, el hermoso universo performed and premiered by the Central Michigan University's New Music Ensemble in the Fall of 2013. The piece was written in the summer of 2013 and was the first piece that was performed after ten years of not writing any music. A graphic score where the performers are asked to improvise using the image, colors, size, and musical notation to create a dialogue across the ensemble.

five inscriptive meditations

A video excerpt made for the electroacoustic musical work five inscriptive meditations written using Max 7 and Processing 3. The initial sounds for the work were five test drawings made for a collaboration with Maren Henson while she was working on her MFA at MICA. These drawings were part of her exploration of the shapes and sounds of language and were derived from the first five letters of the alphabet. These recordings form the basis for the rhythmic patterns in the work and are layered, contorted, and added to sounds from the harmonic series.

CYGNUS

Second studio EP from Jazzo. 2016

Named after producer CYGN and the star constellation CYGNUS that you are launched to upon listening. This project is a great introduction to her sonic-scape. Looking forward to more in 2018 with her first studio album, Matters of the Heart.

Stuck

Original Composition by Ed Hrybyk

Please consider buying the album at www.edhrybykbass.com

Performed by The Bright Moments Sextet:
Sam King - Alto sax
Clarence Ward - trumpet/tenor sax
Christian Hizon - trombone
Justin Taylor - piano
Ed Hrybyk - bass
Charles Wilson - drums

Live at An Die Musik 11/13/16
Video by Bill Hrybyk

Project: An American Mass: A Collection of Settings of Modern American Poetry for Mixed Chorus (2013-present)

"An American Mass" is a series of choral settings of modern American poetry that examine transcendent themes through a secular lens. The texts that I set in these choral compositions deal with questions of how humans relate to one another, how we see the world around us, how eternal an instant can feel, the joy of sensual pleasure, the desire for things to be what they seem, the desire and frustration for the betterment of our own human nature. An ongoing project, "An American Mass" was originally intended to be a ten movement work.

Grounds and Lands, Music Written in Correspondence with John Hitchens

I was drawn to the artwork of John Hitchens through the work of his father, celebrated British painter Ivon Hitchens. In soliciting permission to reproduce the images of his father's work, I discovered John Hitchens's own, magnificent work. His more recent work has taken on the almost textile quality of an aerial photograph, repeating lines and textures with reddish, warm earth tones, and his "From Sombre Lands" painting inspired a new composition.
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