Ben Richter is a composer, accordionist, and director of Ghost Ensemble. Richter’s experimental chamber music conjures flowing sound-worlds of constant transformation, inspired by nonhuman consciousness, emergent perceptual horizons, and humanity’s transient yet vital role within the immensity of geologic time. Wind People, “a multifaceted texture that evokes the primeval” (Meg Wilhoite), “cloudy, mysterious, and dark ... Beckettian in its slow spread” (Brian Olewnick), appears on Ghost Ensemble’s We Who Walk Again, one of Bandcamp Daily’s 10 Best Contemporary Classical Albums of 2018. As an accordionist, Richter explores the extended microtonal and timbral potential of the accordion; immersive just-intonation accordion work Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean was hailed by Stephen Smoliar as “likely to offer a profound impact on the very nature of listening.”