John Bence x Bridget Ferrill

silent green presents

John Bence is a Bristol-based composer and producer whose music explores the deepest recesses of the human psyche. Raised in Bristol's burgeoning underground electronic music scene and a graduate of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, his elegiac works inhabit a sonic world that incorporates elements of British avant-garde and electronic music, Gregorian chant, orchestral arrangements, rippling synthesizers and field recordings into dark compositions. On his album Archangels, released in February 2023 on Thrill Jockey, Bence comes fully into his own as a composer, deftly and creatively threading together gauzy electronic atmospheres, brooding orchestral passages and minimalist piano meditations, revealing new surprises and paths beyond classical traditions at every twist and turn.
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Bridget Ferrill is a composer/engineer/synth-builder. She operates out of Real Surreal Studio in Berlin. Her music plays between composition and noise, exploring augmented instruments, handmade electronics, and experimental computer music. Her album with Áslaug Magnúsdóttir, Woodwind Quintet, was released on July 20, 2022, on Subtext Recordings. Her latest solo album is Only, released on ENXPL.