Summer Session Five

Session - 5: Sept 10th - Sept 22nd

Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Han Hitchen is a composer who writes across a wide range of acoustic and electroacoustic genres, with recent works informed by identity and unconventional instrumentation; his music often incorporates text-based scores and found natural objects, designed to enhance the connection between performers and their environment, and is accessible to all regardless of musical training.

Han Hitchen

Han Hitchen is a composer who writes for a wide range of genres, spanning across various acoustic and electroacoustic settings. His more recent music is informed by identity, normalizing the controversial, and implementing unstandard instrumentations. For the Catwalk Residency, Han is composing a piece for the surrounding natural landscape of the Catwalk grounds. Utilizing a text-based score (similar to Hitchen's work finding, welcoming, cherishing, and Pauline Oliveros's Sonic Meditations) and found objects in nature (rocks & other natural debris), this piece will be fully accessible to performers regardless of their musical training (if any). Performances of this piece are meant to be done outdoors, allowing a strengthening of the connection between us as living creatures and our place on this earth.

https://hanhitchen.com/

Affiliation: Penn State