Arc Hive is an ensemble of innovative musicians who utilize everything from improvisation to dynamic scoring to create intensely unorthodox compositions. They come together to unfold a limitless landscape of the subconscious where imaginative textures merge with surreal harmonies and obscure rhythms. This in turn unveils a vast spectrum of sonic ideas and diverse instrumentation reflecting what they like to call a heterogeneous utopia.

Having since snowballed into a range of vibrant and brilliant musicians, Arc Hive was originally founded in 1997 by two of its current members as a conceptual project for both sound and cinema. Interested in creating visual music with fresh aural perceptions and experimental concerns, Arc Hive is now an enclave of peculiar personalities unconstrained from the instruments they’ve mastered by a need to unpack the schemata of being through an exploration in resonance.

Portland, Oregon’s Willamette Weekly:
“A night of beaded sweat, confusion, and damn intoxicating experiments await you here. Expect a vast array of sound collages, slurring noise, static-laced enigmatics and a whole palette of abstractions and distortions to fall in love with. Arc Hive, an ensemble from all over the West Coast, is creeping into Portland tonight with dark and moody jazzed-out computer tinkering that’ll make your spine tingle. These instrumentalists pull hard at heavy bass line, while experimenting with chimes and sax under cryptically lovely titles like “Mantle Piece Cigar” and “Mineral Robbery.” –Anika Sabin

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