Releases on June 5, 2026
Noise Trip Explosion, is my debut compositional portrait album that features five of my electroacoustic works composed between 2022-2025. This music showcases the full breadth of my compositional output, from improvisatory interpretations of open graphic scores, to ensembles performing with live and fixed electronics. Noise, harshness, physicality, and density are some of the common themes that unite these works as they are presented on this album. The motivation to create the album came from a desire to work with local (Toronto) performers and to obtain high quality studio recordings of my work. – NH
TRACKS
1. generative open graphic score #1 – Colin Fisher (saxophones) and Nolan Hildebrand (mixer feedback)
2. knurl cracked green – Veronica Zupanic (violin), Patrick O’Reilly (electric guitar), Hirad Moradi (piano), and Nolan Hildebrand (live electronics)
3. Raw Data Speed Demons – Roan Ma (violin with live electronics)
4. portals II (everywhere and everything right now) – Colin Fisher (saxophones), Patrick O’Reilly (electric guitar), Louis Pino (drum kit and tam-tam), and Nolan Hildebrand (mixer feedback)
5. DADA BENDER – Louis Pino, Nikki Huang, Hoi Tong Keung, Jasmine Tsui, Thomas Li, and Bevis NG (percussion)
Recorded by Fish Yu at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio
Music, Artwork, Mixing, and Mastering by Nolan Hildebrand nolanhildebrandmusic.com
The creation of this album was made possible with generous support from the Ontario Arts Council, family, and friends.
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Nolan Hildebrand is a composer and noise artist based in Toronto, Canada. He composes electroacoustic, instrumental, and acousmatic music, and performs in his solo noise project, BLACK GALAXIE. His work synthesizes noise music with contemporary composition practices to create music that is intense, colorful, and viscerally engaging. This synthesis manifests sonically through saturation, excess, and physicality, often with a touch of humor and absurdity.
His creative output integrates chaotic feedback networks, open graphic scores, spatialized sound, computer-assisted composition, and interactive systems.
Nolan’s music has been performed at major festivals around the world including Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), International Computer Music Conference (China), Forum Wallis (Switzerland), reMusik (Russia), Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend (USA), and rainy days festival (Luxembourg). He has worked with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, ECM+ Ensemble, MolOt Ensemble, XelmYa Ensemble, Jonny Axelsson, Nick Photinos, and has participated in masterclasses with Panayiotis Kokoras, Stefan Prins, Ana Sokolovic, Fernando Garnero, and Malin Bång. His research has been published in Organised Sound, the International Computer Music Conference Proceedings, the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference Proceedings, and the Korean Electro Acoustic Music Society’s Annual Conference Proceedings.
Upcoming projects include a new interactive electroacoustic work for the Singapore-based ensemble Weird Aftertaste, a new ambisonic acousmatic work, and his doctoral thesis for large ensemble with multichannel electronics.
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