Profile: Chaka Benson
Chaka BensonChaka Benson plays with an ear for color, motion and texture, forsaking conventional narrative clarity. It is an experience by way of the senses, rather than through pure mental interpretation. Our focus expands beyond sound, to the sources of that sound, to its imminent fragility, and a state of un-being.

It may be difficult to lose one's self in Benson's work, as its negative space is constantly asking us to make sense of it. One moment triggers the next so seamlessly that eventually chaos is re-engineered into the illusion of a natural order. Throughout these realizations, tones flicker lightly across the surface, or burrow deep into it - come into focus, or all but disappear. The gentle descent into incandescent timbres and rambling, fearsome energy has the ability to stir the imagination. Throbbing with texture, then snapping into focus, lessons on loudness, denseness and sonority, enmesh the listener in aural events that are impossible to live aloud.

An avid concert performer, Chaka Benson made his The Gatherings Concert Series debut on 17 November 2018.

Coinciding with this performance, Chaka Benson played a live on-air radio concert on the 11.11.18 broadcast of STAR'S END Ambient Radio.


Chaka Benson live on STAR'S END 11.11.18

 


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