About Black House Collective
Black House Collective provides musicians and composers the opportunity to collaborate, develop and support each other and the creation of new music. Through its workshops, composition competitions, festivals and productions, Black House has established itself as a voice of young new music. Black House Collective and artistic director Hunter Long have been recognized through grants from the Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation, and the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City.
Hunter Long, Artistic Director
Hunter Long is an active Los Angeles-based composer, performer and sound artist. His work focuses on creating immersive, multimedia experiences through experimentation with many artistic disciplines. He founded Black House Collective, an experimental new music laboratory, in Kansas City in 2008. Black House fosters performances and collaborations between artists of various disciplines to create new works.
Long's primary instrument is the Paetzold contrabass recorder, for which he is currently developing a North and South America repertoire.
Long has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre, Nief-Norf, the Luminary, and Signal Culture, and attended international festivals including the Montreal Contemporary Music Lab, Darmstadt International Courses for New Music, and Musiikin aika in Finland, and has received grants from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and the Arts Council of Kansas City. He is currently a doctoral candidate in composition at the University of Southern California.