Nolan Hildebrand - Noise Trip Explosion
released June 5, 2026
Nolan Hildebrand is a composer and noise artist based in Toronto, Canada. He composes electroacoustic, instrumental, and acousmatic music, and performs in his solo noise project, BLACK GALAXIE. His work synthesizes noise music with contemporary composition practices to create music that is intense, colorful, and viscerally engaging. This synthesis manifests sonically through saturation, excess, and physicality, often with a touch of humor and absurdity.
His creative output integrates chaotic feedback networks, open graphic scores, spatialized sound, computer-assisted composition, and interactive systems.
Nolan’s music has been performed at major festivals around the world including Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), International Computer Music Conference (China), Forum Wallis (Switzerland), reMusik (Russia), Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend (USA), and rainy days festival (Luxembourg). He has worked with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, ECM+ Ensemble, MolOt Ensemble, XelmYa Ensemble, Jonny Axelsson, Nick Photinos, and has participated in masterclasses with Panayiotis Kokoras, Stefan Prins, Ana Sokolovic, Fernando Garnero, and Malin Bång. His research has been published in Organised Sound, the International Computer Music Conference Proceedings, the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference Proceedings, and the Korean Electro Acoustic Music Society’s Annual Conference Proceedings.
Upcoming projects include a new interactive electroacoustic work for the Singapore-based ensemble Weird Aftertaste, a new ambisonic acousmatic work, and his doctoral thesis for large ensemble with multichannel electronics.
https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/noise-trip-explosion