Ben Houge, images

Additional photos are up on my Flickr site. I've got moving images on Vimeo and YouTube. Pictures of what I'm eating are over on Instagram.

Photo by Jutta Friedrichs
Premiering "Statement of Purpose" at Pecha-Kucha #11, Shanghai, Sept. 26, 2008.
Check out more photos and a video.
Photo by Jutta Friedrichs
Premiering "Statement of Purpose" at Pecha-Kucha #11, Shanghai, Sept. 26, 2008.
Check out more photos and a video.
Photo by Ben
Tsai Hsinyuan 蔡欣圜 from Taipei wasting no time in tweaking her Max patch
prior to her performance at the 2pi Festival 2006 in Hangzhou.
Photo by Ben
Junky of Torturing Nurse looks stoically on, instruments of assault at the ready.
Photo by Ben
The fourth annual 2pi Festival, featuring artists from all over mainland China, Taiwan, and beyond,
drew an enthusiastic crowd to Loft 49 in Hangzhou, China, on November 25, 2006.
Photo by Ben
Tired after back-to-back NOIShanghai shows in Shanghai,
Xu Cheng 徐程, the other half of Torturing Nurse, catches a few winks during soundcheck.
The white blur on the left is Ronez from Guilin.
Photo by Ben
Several sets were so loud plaster literally was shaken from the ceiling.
Photo by Ben
2pi founder and organizer Li Jianhong 李剑鸿 performed the most theatrical set,
complete with lasers and fog machines.
Photo by...Lawrence?
I performed Mobile 3 and Study for Eventual World Domination.
Photo by Ben
Tsai Hsinyuan's set incorporated live video processing using Jitter.
Photo by Ben
Composer/Post-Concrete founder Yao Dajun 姚大钧 and me.
Photo by Ben
Concert organizer/GNO blogger Lawrence Li, me, composer/alchemist Wang Changcun 王长存 (l-r)
Photo by Ben
Lao Yang ËÄÅÁæä runs the most comprehensive store for underground and experimental music in China.
Visit him on-line at Sugar Jar!
Photo by Yang Ge (I think)
My pal Yang Ge 杨戈 made the trip up from Shanghai and produced a bottle whiskey after my set.
See you next year!
Photo by Xu Cheng
Premiering Mobile 3 at NOIShanghai VI, Yu Yin Tang, November 23, 2006
Photo by Jin-Bae Hyun
Following NOIShanghai VI: (back row l-r) Junky, Xu Cheng, Alessandro Bosetti, Audrey Chen,
and Terence Lloren, who recorded our concert; (front row) Ronez and me.
Photo by Zhou Jing
Recording source material for Lu Kou at the intersection of
Fuxing Road and Xiangyang Road, Shanghai, China, May 21, 2006
Photo by Zhou Jing
Recording source material for Lu Kou at the intersection of
Huaihai Road and Xiangyang Road, Shanghai, China, May 21, 2006
Photo by Zhou Jing
Performing Psalmus at the Noishanghai anniversary concert,
Yu Yin Tang, Shanghai, May 7, 2006.
Photo by Zhou Jing
Another shot of the Noishanghai show, which also featured
Marqido, itta, Torturing Nurse, D!O!D!O!D!, OO, Ji Mu, Dominik,
Wang Changcun, 00700, Keplerslaws, and Acidzen.
Photo by Audrey Leprince
Performing Psalmus at the first Shanghai Sound Currents concert,
held at Harley's Bar in the Xu Jia Hui district of Shanghai on Nov. 19, 2005.
Photo by Audrey Leprince
Engaged in deep conversation Audrey Chen of the Nakatani-Chen Duo
prior to the Sound Currents concert at Harley's Bar in Shanghai on Nov. 19, 2005.
Photo by Ryan's dad
Following the Leap Day concert at Minneapolis' Southern Theater, February 29, 2004,
with composers (l-r) Ryan Ingebritsen, Peter Hamlin, and Mary Ellen Childs.
Photo by Erik Floan
With the Odeon String Quartet following the first Sound Currents concert
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Mercer Island, WA, February 25, 2003
(Gennady Filimonov, violin 1; me; Andrew Yeung, violin 2; Michael Lieberman, viola; Paige Stockley, cello)
Photo by Jeff Pobst
Working with musicians at the second Arcanum recording session
Studio X, Seattle, WA, June 2000
(Vincent Comer, viola; Susan Williams, cello; Kathy Stern, violin II; Leonid Keylin, violin I)
Photo by Adam Fossa
Working with musicians at the first Arcanum recording session
Music Works Northwest, Bellevue, WA, December 1999
Photo by Claude Houge
Recording the sounds of the Kakum Rainforest
Ghana, West Africa, June 1999