Edward Hamel

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Edward Hamel (b. 1986, Chicago, Illinois) is a composer currently residing in the Logan Square area of Chicago. He graduated magna cum laude from Columbia College Chicago receiving a Bachelors of Music in Composition under the guidance of Marcos Balter and Kenn Kumpf. Prior to attending Columbia College Chicago, Edward spent two years outside of school organizing and performing with experimental/ambient group Estesombelo. The group participated in various performance tours, recording sessions, electronic music festivals, art gallery openings and collaborations with Chicago based visual artists and electroacoustic musicians. Monica Kendrick of the Chicago Reader did a write up on the group for their performance at the Fugue State Festival as well as a review of their EP Oppida von Ataraxia. Estesombelo received further online reviews for proceeding albums as well as their performance at the Speaker Project exhibition at the Hyde Park Arts Center. As these projects led Edward to grow as a musician, he wanted to apply the knowledge from his explorations in electronic/ambient music to acoustic composition leading to his admittance to Columbia College Chicago. Much of Edward's musical discourse is concerned with the notion of informational saturation, the resulting perspective(s) thereof, and the functionality/perception of procedural music in correspondence with unconventional, complex sonorities. Edward has been studying Gestalt theories from psychologists Max Wertheimer, Kurt K

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