Experimental

Bio: Erich Barganier is a composer and multi-instrumentalist hailing from St. Petersburg, Florida who currently resides between New York City and Durham, NC. He writes chamber, orchestral, film, solo instrumental and electronic music that explores experimental technology, the edge of noise, improvisation, generative processes, and new forms of notation. His music has been released on People Places Records, cmntx, [walnut+locust], Belts and Whistles Records, Infrequent Seams, Off Latch Press, Nebularosa Records, Pleroma Records, NOUS Records, and Janus Music and Sound.

Barganier's works have been presented by Bang on a Can, The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), Gaudeamus, Mostly Modern Festival, The New Music Gathering, Roulette Intermedium, National Sawdust, Le Poisson Rouge, Diffrazioni Festival, The DiMenna Center For Classical Music, Spectra Malaysia, Arts, Letters, & Numbers, and McGill University, among others. 

He has written for Ensemble Dal Niente, Mivos Quartet, current and former members of the Bang On A Can All-Stars, Sybarite5, Quince, loadbang, and Sandbox Percussion Ensemble, among others. He has served as an artist-in-residence at The Conlon Collective (Utrecht, NL), CIRMMT (McGill University, Montreal, CAN), Westben Artist Retreat (Westben, CAN), and Oracle Egg (Los Angeles, USA).

Barganier began studying composition and theory under Mark Dancigers while attending New College of Florida (B.A., 2014). He pursued further studies at New York University, taking private lessons with Julia Wolfe, Robert Honstein, Joan La Barbara and Tae Hong Park (M.M. 2019). He currently is a professor in the music technology faculty at New York University and pursuing a PhD in music composition at Duke University.