Hiram 

Discography of Hiram 

Discography

Yucca Music

Hiram sings the song of the Earth.

While hiking the desert trails of Southern California, the artist paused to nestle between the stones and capture the vibrations of life.  Inspired by elemental forces, Hiram selected the location and specified frequencies to be sourced from living Mojave Yucca and Joshua Trees of the area.

“Yucca Music” is an act of listening, a human collaboration with Nature itself. 

Using data-sonification technology, the plant’s leaves are gently fitted with sensitive electrodes to pick up tiny electrical variations, which are sent via MIDI to be processed and complemented in real time.  The work is experiential and conservational, both meditation and echoed reflection. Hiram uses stereo signal processing, with a field kit of analog synthesizer, reverb/delay effect processor, rechargeable speaker and two track recording equipment.

The core of the work was recorded on location in Joshua Tree National Park, and the nearby Yucca Valley in mid January of 2023, with field recordings from the surrounding area. Arrangement and mix was completed over the following season in the artist's home studio.

The second movement, "The Great Unseen" brings a breath of human spirit, featuring an extended improvisation for Walnut bass flute. "Yucca Music" weaves an intimate portrait of the living landscape, formed to support the songs of the plants themselves.

In an era where our connection to the environment is often overlooked, "Yucca Music" is a reminder of the deep interdependence between humanity and the planet we call home. The work is an invitation to pause, listen, and reconnect with the fragile ecosystems that surround us. 

All music by Hiram.
Recorded on location, January 2023.

Arrangement and mix at Natural Sound Studio, Spring 2023.
Mastered by OVRSCN at Holosuite, May 2023.

Photography and design by MHH.

Created with PlantWave™ technology.

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Hiram sings the song of the Earth.
While hiking the desert trails of Southern California, the artist paused to nestle between the stones and capture the vibrations of life.  Inspired by elemental forces, Hiram selected the location and specified frequencies to be sourced from living Mojave Yucca and Joshua Trees of the area.
“Yucca Music” is an act of listening, a human collaboration with Nature itself. 
Using data-sonification technology, the plant’s leaves are gently fitted with sensitive electrodes to pick up tiny electrical variations, which are sent via MIDI to be processed and complemented in real time.  The work is experiential and conservational, both meditation and echoed reflection. Hiram uses stereo signal processing, with a field kit of analog synthesizer, reverb/delay effect processor, rechargeable speaker and two track recording equipment.
The core of the work was recorded on location in Joshua Tree National Park, and the nearby Yucca Valley in mid January of 2023, with field recordings from the surrounding area. Arrangement and mix was completed over the following season in the artist's home studio.
The second movement, "The Great Unseen" brings a breath of human spirit, featuring an extended improvisation for Walnut bass flute. "Yucca Music" weaves an intimate portrait of the living landscape, formed to support the songs of the plants themselves.
In an era where our connection to the environment is often overlooked, "Yucca Music" is a reminder of the deep interdependence between humanity and the planet we call home. The work is an invitation to pause, listen, and reconnect with the fragile ecosystems that surround us. 
All music by Hiram.
Recorded on location, January 2023.
Arrangement and mix at Natural Sound Studio, Spring 2023.
Mastered by OVRSCN at Holosuite, May 2023.
Photography and design by MHH.
Created with PlantWave™ technology.
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First Light

The Great Unsees

Air Songs

The music is focused on the universality of breath, and the concept of honoring air as the great force of life, equalizer, birth bringer, and author of all stories.

 "All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares it's spirit with all the life it supports. - Chief Seattle

Air Songs” was written, performed, and recorded Winter-Spring 2022, in Minneapolis, MN 

Hiram plays flutes made from Walnut, Cedar and Rosewood, with synthesizer, electric piano, bass guitar, pocket sax, voice, shruti box, electronic processing and natural sound from the surrounding environments. 


Track 3, “From Above” recorded live outdoors on the cliffside overlooking Hidden Falls Park. 

Track 5, “Trillium” features field recordings from Blue Mound State Park. 

Track 6, “Talia” recorded live outdoors at the base of the waterfall at Hidden Falls Park.

Released by Aural Canyon, 2022



The music is focused on the universality of breath, and the concept of honoring air as the great force of life, equalizer, birth bringer, and author of all stories.
 "All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares it's spirit with all the life it supports. - Chief Seattle
Air Songs” was written, performed, and recorded Winter-Spring 2022, in Minneapolis, MN 
Hiram plays flutes made from Walnut, Cedar and Rosewood, with synthesizer, electric piano, bass guitar, pocket sax, voice, shruti box, electronic processing and natural sound from the surrounding environments. 
Track 3, “From Above” recorded live outdoors on the cliffside overlooking Hidden Falls Park. 
Track 5, “Trillium” features field recordings from Blue Mound State Park. 
Track 6, “Talia” recorded live outdoors at the base of the waterfall at Hidden Falls Park.
Released by Aural Canyon, 2022

From Within

Sonn

From Above

Trillium

Talia

Immersion

"Immersion" is a long form original sound work composed over the Summer of 2022, to be premiered as   a live outdoor performance of new eco-music and environmental sound.  

The work is the culmination of a collaboration through the Art for Water initiative, with the artist working towards certification as a MN Water Steward to act as a creative voice in public conservation outreach. The focus behind the music is to help promote the development of personal connections to water and the natural environment by creating a shared public sound-art experience outdoors in a beautiful, natural space. 

With this new site-specific piece, Hiram uses field recordings and underwater sounds collected from the Wood Lake Nature Center and the Minnehaha Watershed area to form the foundation of the work, using wooden flutes, brass bowls, and woodwind acoustic instruments in combination with analog synthesis, natural sound, magnetic tape, and electronic processing, telling the timeless story of waters’ path, from liquid to vapor and from the skies to our homes. 

The music was performed on location in real-time, created to resonate in harmony with the spaces surrounding us. Portions of the work include field recordings made with submergible hydro-phone microphones, using the actual waters of Wood Lake itself to help create the music. 

This is a live recording of the public event that took place on the morning of Saturday, August 13th 2022, released in sync with the 2022 MN Confluence of Stewards event. 


"Immersion" is a long form original sound work composed over the Summer of 2022, to be premiered as   a live outdoor performance of new eco-music and environmental sound.  
The work is the culmination of a collaboration through the Art for Water initiative, with the artist working towards certification as a MN Water Steward to act as a creative voice in public conservation outreach. The focus behind the music is to help promote the development of personal connections to water and the natural environment by creating a shared public sound-art experience outdoors in a beautiful, natural space. 
With this new site-specific piece, Hiram uses field recordings and underwater sounds collected from the Wood Lake Nature Center and the Minnehaha Watershed area to form the foundation of the work, using wooden flutes, brass bowls, and woodwind acoustic instruments in combination with analog synthesis, natural sound, magnetic tape, and electronic processing, telling the timeless story of waters’ path, from liquid to vapor and from the skies to our homes. 
The music was performed on location in real-time, created to resonate in harmony with the spaces surrounding us. Portions of the work include field recordings made with submergible hydro-phone microphones, using the actual waters of Wood Lake itself to help create the music. 
This is a live recording of the public event that took place on the morning of Saturday, August 13th 2022, released in sync with the 2022 MN Confluence of Stewards event.

Part 1 - Rainfall (Morning)

Part 1 - Rainfall

Part 2 - Absorption (Midday)

Part 2 - Absorption

Part 3 - Condensation (Overnight)

Part 3 - Condensation(Overnight) by Hiram 

Part 3 - Condensation

Part 4 - Evaporation (Dawn)

Part 4 - Evaporation

Immersion  (Seamless mix)

Immersion 

Water Rise

An offering of ethereal evaporation music from environmental sound artist Hiram, bearing new works in morphing formation. Several pieces document the artist in live outdoor solo actions over the Summer of 2021, with sessions documented both in the midday shade of the Mississippi River's shore in Minnesota, and under the nighttime desert skies of New Mexico. 

The track "Wind Song" is built upon the grace of nature's breath, with field recordings from Joshua Tree, CA blending with the melody of a 15 string zither. Hiram's use of horns, flutes and reeds through the work breathes an air of life, with electric piano, voice, chimes, tongue drum, shruti, tanpura, synthesizer and tapes mixing with the sounds of the environment, connecting self to space in a new form of harmonic resonance. 

Music for condensation.

An offering of ethereal evaporation music from environmental sound artist Hiram, bearing new works in morphing formation. Several pieces document the artist in live outdoor solo actions over the Summer of 2021, with sessions documented both in the midday shade of the Mississippi River's shore in Minnesota, and under the nighttime desert skies of New Mexico. 
The track "Wind Song" is built upon the grace of nature's breath, with field recordings from Joshua Tree, CA blending with the melody of a 15 string zither. Hiram's use of horns, flutes and reeds through the work breathes an air of life, with electric piano, voice, chimes, tongue drum, shruti, tanpura, synthesizer and tapes mixing with the sounds of the environment, connecting self to space in a new form of harmonic resonance. 
Music for condensation.

First Breath

Wind Song

El Rito

Into Air

With Grace

The Crystalline Core 

Music for meditation and movement. "The Crystalline Core" is the second offering from HIRAM, a long-form composition for wooden bass flute, electronic processing and magnetic tape. 

This work brings the consideration of the ancient tectonic workings of the inner Earth in parallel to our own emotional human experience, acting as a tool to facilitate the release of internal pressures from within.




Music for meditation and movement. "The Crystalline Core" is the second offering from HIRAM, a long-form composition for wooden bass flute, electronic processing and magnetic tape. 
This work brings the consideration of the ancient tectonic workings of the inner Earth in parallel to our own emotional human experience, acting as a tool to facilitate the release of internal pressures from within.

The Crystalline Core

Artemisia

"Artemisia" is the debut from Hiram, an air filled trajectory formed through focused source and physical process, vision brightly burning. 

A series of devotional vignettes following a path of intuitive real world creation to manifest a natural born ambience, or glacial exotica. 

Sensation familiar, harmonic resonance elevates. Wave after wave soothes past memory, reviving forgotten fragments of this life which may be your own. Has time stopped? 

Welcome to Artemisia.


"Artemisia" is the debut from Hiram, an air filled trajectory formed through focused source and physical process, vision brightly burning. 
A series of devotional vignettes following a path of intuitive real world creation to manifest a natural born ambience, or glacial exotica. 
Sensation familiar, harmonic resonance elevates. Wave after wave soothes past memory, reviving forgotten fragments of this life which may be your own. Has time stopped? 
Welcome to Artemisia.

Hiram Minneapolis, United States

Hiram
Minneapolis, United States