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www.francestheband.com - Frances, the band, is a miniature rock-pop orchestra performing songs from Frances, the album, as well as many new tunes. Our next show is Jan. 26th at Cake-Shop.

www.pauldamianhoganthethird.com - This new site only covers my concert music, film, theater, opera, visual art collaborations and installations.

www.currentquartet.com - Current Quartet performs electroacoustic compositions, stilted funk, avant-jazz, noise, and song.

Frances ~ Coin-Operated Orchestra ~ The First and Last Photograph ~ Current Quartet
Chamber Music ~ Film Music ~ Installations ~ Experiments

Paul Hogan sings stories of urban anxiety, and loves lost, accompanying his portraits with micro-symphonic grooves gathered from a diverse musical background. From his teenage stints with rock bands through academic studies in composition, Paul has shared his musical imagination with all kinds of audiences, regularly performing shows in art galleries, concert halls, clubs, and even rowboats.

Hogan's debut CD, Frances, captures the spirit of a songwriter who needed many years of experiment to sculpt this intimate and controlled sound. In a set of mainly solo performances, Paul combines a knack for fresh instrumentation, blending perhaps toy piano or Pakistani banjo, with vocals and lavish laptop synthesis. This set of miniatures, tinged with folk, funk, gamelan, electronic and experimental music, is bound by Paul's simple, yet often ambiguous, lyricism. An album in the classic sense, these songs are charged and personal, like finding a stack of photos from a trip you forgot you took

-Mike Barnhart

Preview Frances:
Frances - mp3 (0.8 MB) - for toy piano and voice
Sale - mp3 (2.3 MB) - for guitars and voice
Fingers - mp3 (2.1 MB) - for kalimba, samples, and voice
Snow - mp3 (1.8 MB) - for toy piano, samples, and voice
It - mp3 (2.4 MB) - for accordion, electronics, and voice

Paul Hogan - vocals, toy piano, guitar, kalimba, piano, accordion, pakistani banjo, field recordings, programming and treatments
Bill Wolfe - guitar on track 2, harmonica on track 4
Tony Franklin's drum samples on tracks 3 and 6 recorded by Mike Barnhart

Engineered and Mixed by Paul Hogan and Mike Newman at the Computer Music Center, Columbia University. Mastered by James Fei and Paul Hogan.

Frances is available at CDBaby.com, Insound, and the iTunes Music Store.

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The Coin-Operated Orchestra formed to play new arrangements of songs from Frances as well as new and hibernating tunes. Paul Hogan (accordion, toy piano, guitar, kalimba, and iPod), Bill Wolfe (glockenspiel, banjo, ukulele, am radion, guitar), Tlacael Esparza (percussion) and Josh Walden (violin).

Mp3s coming soon...

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The First and Last Photograph
a new opera
with music by Paul Hogan and text by Todd Almond

A young photographer, who is obsessed with images of his own shadow, discovers that his identity is lost in the shattered memory surrounding the events of a single, formative day. The music occupies a space somewhere between minimalism, jazz, and indie rock.

Todd Almond (voice), Stephanie Skaff (voice), Paul Hogan (electric piano), Andrew Neff (soprano sax), Niko Higgins (alto sax), Tlacael Esparza (drums), Paul Steinbeck (electric bass), and Ben Cassorla (electric guitar)

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organized to present new electroacoustic compositions and improvisations in unique performance environments in Cincinnati and New York. Drawing on the diverse talents of its members, CQ presents a extraordinary approach to recording and performance. Funk, swing, noise, song, electronics, and improvisation combined with soundscapes, sculpture, modified toys and homemade instruments.

Paul Hogan - keyboards, vocals, and laptop
Tony Franklin - drums, guts, and percussion
Mike Barnhart - multi-reed performer, and laptop
Tony Luensman (not pictured) - multi-reed performer, circuit bender, vocals, and sound sculptures

The group has performed for the Intermedia Series at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati, for Tony Luensman's Irato at the Weston Art Gallery, for Tony Luensman's performance at the Headland Center in San Fransisco, and for a variety of rooms around Cincinnati. Paul and Mike recently completed a residency at STEIM (studio for electro-instrumental music) in Amsterdam where they developed the sound installation, Current Orchestra: The Well-Tempered Joystick.

CQ has two CDs to date. The self-produced, self-titled debut album combines Paul's tight compositions with the improvisations, poetry, computer noises, and modified toys of the rest of the group. The second CD, Irato, is a live performance from the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, OH. Tony Luensman's sound sculptures are woven into the sonic fabric of CQ's textural improvisations and lush melodic lines. Paul mixed and mastered both discs.

edification - mp3 (8.9 MB)
Dance No. 2 (Bali) - mp3 (5 MB)
Conceived Untouched - mp3 (4.2 MB)
Mumble - mp3 (6.5 MB)

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Paul Hogan composes music for soloists and chamber ensembles with and without electronics. This work focuses on rhythmic elasticity and minimalist repetition within harmonically static frameworks. Assymetrical and non-repetitive large scale forms emerge from a semi-improvisatory approach to the compositional process. Paul's chamber music is informed and influenced by gamelan, popular music, and the tradition of American experimentalism.

Fake It Til You Make It - mp3 (13.2 MB)
for jazz ensemble
performed by the Columbia Univerity Jazz Ensemble

Five Islands - mp3 (18.7 MB)
for cello, piano, and vibraphone
performed by the Columbia Composers Ensemble

Drum and Grain - mp3 (13.4 MB)
for percussion trio and electronics
performed by the Percussion Group Cincinnati

pocket - mp3 (17 MB)
for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello
performed by the Columbia Composers Ensemble

The Fork Variable - mp3 (14.6 MB)
for prepared piano and electronics
performed by Kathryn Woodard

Seven - mp3 (10.3 MB)
for Javanese Gamelan
performed by Gamelan Son of Lion

Music for 23 Beginner Pianists - mp3 (8 MB)
for 23 pianos
performed by Paul Hogan's piano students in Cincinnati

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The Visionary*
*Tesla
directed by Joel Shapiro
produced by David Sebag
music by Paul Hogan
Paul Hogan - accordion, prepared piano, piano
Christa Long - bass clarinet, Bb clarinet
Josh Walden - violin

video excerpt coming soon...

Suzanna Most
written and directed by Michael McLaughlin.

video excerpt coming soon...

For more information or to request Paul's reel send an email to paul@hoganmusic.com

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Installations

The Thickening Place, a twelve channel outdoor audio installation, was realized at Le Petit Versailles on July 26th, Aug. 2nd, and Aug. 9th, 2003. The speakers playback manipulated recordings of city parks and are placed geopgraphically relative to there actual locations. The visitor is invited to explore the "sonic geography" of the new altered park space. On opening night, outfit_pneumatic performed compositions composed specifically for the event.

Listen to a field recording of the installation.

Read Amanda MacBlane's article about The Thickening Place in the New York Press.

Paul Hogan - accordion, pakistani banjo, vocals
Kathryn Woodard - toy pianos, percussion
John Hadfield - percussion

Current Orchestra (collaboration) is a 4-channel audio montage of soundscapes, musical recordings, and processed sounds that incorporates video game and musical controllers for audience participation. Current Trio will perform along with the installation throughout the evening, leaving time between performances for visitors to give it a go.

The Well-Tempered Joystick (mp3 - 30MB)
May 15th, 2004, 5-9PM at the Tank, NYC

I. Toys in Frogland
II. Waltz of the Crackers
III. Cicada Song
IV. Ghost Dance
V. Evil Coda

Current Orchestra's instrumentation includes frogs, toy pianos, drums, firecrackers, mbiras, computer synthesis, PipeBass, furniture, doors, bass clarinets, storms, frozen train whistle, traffic, music boxes, soprano saxophone, and evil whispers.

Conceived and implemented at STEIM (studio for electro-instrumental music) in Amsterdam and the Computer Music Center at Columbia University by Paul Hogan and Mike Barnhart

Production, composition and programming by Paul Hogan.
Recorded, synthesized and performed by Current Quartet; Mike Barnhart, Tony Franklin, Paul Hogan and Tony Luensman with special guest sounds by Alan Barnhart, Brad Grey and the Kentucky Cracker. Joystick, Throttle and the Doorbell by Tony Luensman.

Overblown Piano (collaboration) was on exhibit for the opening of the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, OH as part of Tony Luensman's exhibit, Zeloso. Luensman commisioned Paul to write music that would play when the large, inflatable keys were pressed. The resulting cacophony is a collage of sounds drawing from horns, birds, vacuums, whistles, accordion and time-compressed, modernist, French "masterpieces" from the 20th century. Every time a key is pressed the sound currently playing is cut off and the new sounds begin. The composition is indeterminate by nature because each visitor controls the form.

Listen to a few of the miniatures and imagine them cut amongst one another as you press the inflatable keys.
2nd key
5th key
6th key
7th key

Paul arranged the music for Jamie Isenstein's solo show, Infinite Invisible Soft-Shoe, at Guild and Greyshkul. Read the great review from Art in America.

Jamie's newest piece, If You Go Away, is on display at PS1's Greater New York Show and features a one-hand arrangement for silent player piano of Jacques Brel's Ne Me Quitte Pas by Paul Hogan.

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Experiments

Music for 23 Beginner Pianists - mp3 (8 MB)
for 23 pianos
performed by Paul Hogan's piano students in Cincinnati

The Converging Currents Composers' Workshop was conceived in Cincinnati by Paul Hogan and Mike Barnhart (pictured with Brad Grey on Mandocello). The idea was to present new music in interesting locations. Our concert environments included Old St. George Cathedral, Miami Forest Whitewater Lake, and Burnet Woods.

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