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Celebrating 30 Years of New Music in Alabama with Craig Hultgren

Tomorrow the Birmingham Art Music Alliance (BAMA) continues their 30th anniversary season with a concert of new music for solo cello featuring Craig Hultgren. Craig will perform music by Alabama composers including my piece As Safe As If It Were In The Fire for cello and live electronics. Craig performed Monroe Golden’s Fantasy as part of the very first BAMA concert in September of 1995.

Sunday, November 9, 2025 4pm
Craig Hultgren: BAMA 30th Anniversary Concert
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hulsey Recital Hall
950 13th Street South
Birmingham AL

After the concert I’ll be part of a short panel discussion about the history of BAMA moderated by arts journalist and composer Michael Huebner. The panel will also include founding BAMA member Michael Angell.

Also, Craig will play a concert tonight at East Village Arts at 7pm featuring music by Davey Williams and Mark Lackey.

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1000 Clicks to ClickFest

I had a great trip to Athens, Ohio, recently for the ClickFest electroacoustic music festival. It was my first visit to southeast Ohio, to Ohio University, and my first time at ClickFest. On my way I had M. Sage’s Tender / Wading and Xexa’s Kissom on repeat.

And I enjoyed seeing giant ragweed on the side of the road.

Fall flowers and milkweed along the edges. One of my creative principles: More Edge!

Here’s me and Mickie Wadsworth who performed Sudden Swan for voice and live electronics.

On the way back I had a quick visit in Columbus, Ohio, with too-long-neglected friends. And then I took a detour through Indianapolis, Indiana, to see family. We enjoyed a visit to Newfields. It’s always great to experience James Turrell’s (Acton) and Robert Irwin’s (Untitled) work in person. I’ve also been thinking about codifying a set of studio colors (see Tom Sach’s COLOR video), so it was fun to encounter Ellsworth Kelly’s 11 Panels.

Newfield’s pollinator meadow is hard to beat, too!

Heading back home I enjoyed Keith LeBlanc’s Major Malfunction and a rainy stop at KMAC in Louisville, Kentucky, for the South Arts 2025 exhibition.

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BAMA@30

The Birmingham Art Music Alliance (BAMA) is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. One part of the celebration is a series of virtual concerts. The first one dropped on Friday, October 10 and features music by Cynthia Miller, Shane Lamb and me.

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Future virtual concerts will premiere every Friday afternoon. Over 100 composers have been active in BAMA during its 30 years of supporting new music in Alabama. So there’s a wide range of interesting pieces to come: chamber music, solo piano, improvisations, electronics, and more. Follow B’ham Art Music Alliance on YouTube to see them all.

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In Conversation on Burnaway

I’m honored to be featured on Burnaway‘s interview series, “In Conversation.” I had a great visit with Atlanta-based artist Noah Reyes who somehow distilled my breathless word babble into print: In Conversation with Holland Hopson.

As befits a publication dedicated to art in the American South and the Caribbean, our conversation was mostly about my studio art practice including my contributions to the Tracing Thin Air exhibition and installation with Karen Brummund and Allison Grant, my Loop Line Logics drawings, and assorted text-based works.

If I Hate Fairyland, Feelings….Fruits Basket, Plural (2024) generative computer image plotter print, archival ink on acid-free paper, in process

Read other interviews in the series at https://burnaway.org/articles/interviews/

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Handsome Molly in Pensacola

I’m premiering a new piece for banjo, voice and electronics tomorrow at the Pensacola ComposerFest XX. The piece is based on the traditional tune “Handsome Molly.” Other composers on the program include Michael Coleman,, Kadisha Onalbayeva, William Price and Robert Voisey.

Sunday, September 28, 2025 2:30pm
Pensacola ComposerFest XX
Pensacola State College
Ashmore Auditorium
Pensacola FL