{{Short description|American musician}} {{Infobox person | name = Bryce Hackford | image = Bryce Hackford bio photo by Josh Steinbauer.jpg | image_size = 220px | alt = | caption = Hackford in 2020 | birth_name = Bryce Hackford | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = | years_active = | education = | employer = | spouse = }}
'''Bryce Hackford''' is an American musician based in Brooklyn.
==Career== In 2008, Hackford co-founded the post-punk band Behavior. Formed from longstanding connections in Long Island's music scene, the band consisted of Hackford (vocals/guitar/synth/effects), Ian Campbell (bass), and Khira Jordan (drums). The band was characterized by its fusion of experimentalism with pop sensibilities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nypress.com/news/behave-yourself-PYNP1020101117311179985|title=Behave Yourself|website=www.nypress.com}}</ref>
In 2013, Hackford released his debut solo album ''Fair''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2013/12/08/youre-so-deep-in-the-painting-that-you-cant-see-the-frame-nyc-experimenter-bryce-hackford-on-immersion-improvisation-and-hatred-of-midi/|title="So deep in the painting that you can't see the frame": NYC experimenter Bryce Hackford on immersion, improvisation and hatred of MIDI|date=December 8, 2013|website=Fact Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1496849938|title=BRYCE HACKFORD - ProQuest|website=www.proquest.com}}</ref> The album is based on material he developed in Europe in 2011 where by using a small field recorder, a synth, a sampler and a microphone, he recorded improvised songs that would later became the basis for the album.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/18071/1/stream-of-the-week-bryce-hackford-fair|title=Stream of the Week: Bryce Hackford - "Fair"|date=December 4, 2013|website=Dazed}}</ref> The album featured "Another Fantasy", described by ''Pitchfork'' as “a supremely grimy wall-pounder”.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Bryce Hackford: "Another Fantasy" Track Review {{!}} Pitchfork | url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16237-bryce-hackford-another-fantasy/ | access-date=2026-01-24 | website=pitchfork.com}}</ref>
In 2013, Hackford was the sound designer for M Lamar's ''Surveillance Punishment and The Black Psyche'', an examination of "the sexual politics surrounding the surveillance of the black male body".<ref>{{Cite web | title=Video: M. Lamar's Surveillance Punishment and The Black Psyche | url=https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/hidvl/w9ghx8vc | access-date=2026-01-24 | website=sites.dlib.nyu.edu}}</ref>
In 2014, Hackford collaborated with dancer and choreographer Brittany Bailey on a series of performances titled “Light Dance with Girl” at Judson Church, NADA Art Fair, and the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.watermillcenter.org/brittany-bailey-and-bryce-hackford/|title=Brittany Bailey and Bryce Hackford|date=July 5, 2015}}</ref>
In 2014, Hackford collaborated with experimental cellist Oliver Coates on a split EP which featured a Coates cover of "Another Fantasy" “pulling all manner of gnarled and ragged sounds” from his cello, and “looping and multi-tracking them into a chugging, almost-dancefloor-ready track”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2014/07/16/oliver-coates-cello-version-bryce-hackford-another-fantasy/|title=Hear Oliver Coates' epic cello rework of Bryce Hackford's lo-fi house jam 'Another Fantasy'|date=July 16, 2014|website=Fact Magazine}}</ref>
In December 2014, Hackford released the mini-album ''Amnesia'' on PRAH Recordings. The label described it as “raw, sampladelic tracks and different explorations of repetition”.<ref name="factmag.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2014/12/04/bryce-hackford-returns-with-mini-album-amnesia-hear-figures/|title=NYC analogue adventurer Bryce Hackford returns with mini-album Amnesia – hear 'Figures'|date=December 4, 2014|website=Fact Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2015/01/20/stream-bryce-hackford-amnesia/|title=Stream NYC producer Bryce Hackford's raw new album Amnesia|date=January 20, 2015|website=Fact Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title=Listen To Bryce Hackford’s Melodic Hissing Techno Cut “Figures” {{!}} The FADER | url=https://www.thefader.com/2014/12/03/listen-to-bryce-hackfords-melodic-hissing-techno-cut-figures | access-date=2026-01-24 | website=www.thefader.com}}</ref>
In 2015, Hackford released the album ''Behind''.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2015/10/15/bryce-hackford-announces-behind-lp-on-meakusma/|title=Bryce Hackford announces Behind LP on Meakusma|date=October 15, 2015|website=Fact Magazine}}</ref>
In 2015, Hackford made four remixes for the album release of ''In Remembrance'' by Delia Gonzalez.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2015/03/18/delia-gonzalez-returns-to-dfa-with-in-remembrance/|title=DFA veteran Delia Gonzalez returns with In Remembrance|date=March 18, 2015|website=Fact Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/delia-gonzalez-in-remembrance-album-review-1.2195732|title=Delia Gonzalez: In Remembrance | Album Review|website=The Irish Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title=Hear New York producer Bryce Hackford's remix of Delia Gonzalez's new album 'In Remembrance' {{!}} DMY | url=https://dmy.co/news/delia-gonzalez-in-remembrance-bryce-hackford-remixes-stream-dfa-records | access-date=2026-01-24 | website=dmy.co}}</ref> On April 12, 2015, Hackford, Alice Cohen, Adrian Knight, and David Lackner joined Gonzalez at the Museum of Modern Art to play a live score for four of her ballet films.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Delia Gonzalez, In Remembrance with Georgia, Malory, and Heathered Pearls {{!}} MoMA | url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3411 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171103081425/https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3411 | access-date=2026-01-24 | archive-date=2017-11-03}}</ref>
In April 2018, Hackford and Brian Allen Simon performed as part of ''Commend Here'', a series of one-off performances at Commend, a space operated by the Brooklyn-based label RVNG Intl.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://inverted-audio.com/feature/bryce-hackford-brian-allen-simon-hark-back-on-their-experimental-collaboration-commend-here/|title=Bryce Hackford & Brian Allen Simon hark back on their experimental collaboration 'Commend Here'|date=July 17, 2018|website=Inverted Audio}}</ref>
In 2018, Hackford performed with Delia Gonzalez at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT. The performance, which featured music from her 2017 album Horse Follows Darkness, was part of the exhibition List Projects: Delia Gonzalez which displayed drawings, sculpture, and a sound work.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Public Program Musical Performance with Delia Gonzalez and Bryce Hackford {{!}} MIT List Visual Arts Center | url=https://listart.mit.edu/events-programs/public-program-musical-performance-delia-gonzalez-and-bryce-hackford | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201192051/https://listart.mit.edu/events-programs/public-program-musical-performance-delia-gonzalez-and-bryce-hackford | archive-date=2020-12-01 | access-date=2026-01-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2018/08/30/shelf-family-near-vesuvius/Kp385IwE4dPLNjm8HN1gSP/story.html|title=On the shelf, in the family, near Vesuvius - The Boston Globe|website=BostonGlobe.com}}</ref>
In 2020, Hackford released ''Safe (Exits)''. It was described by ''Pitchfork'' as an "appealingly loose, rangy record" that's "suited to his magpie tendencies".<ref name="Bryce Hackford: Safe Exits">{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bryce-hackford-safe-exits/|title=Bryce Hackford: Safe (Exits)|website=Pitchfork}}</ref>
In 2021, a remix by Peak Wifi, a project between Hackford and Parquet Courts member Austin Brown, was featured on the B-side of Parquet Courts physical-only single titled ''Plant Life''.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Parquet Courts tease new album, release physical-only single 'Plant Life' | url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/parquet-courts-tease-new-album-release-physical-only-single-plant-life-2980524 | access-date=2026-01-24 | website=www.nme.com}}</ref>
Hackford is currently enrolled in the Bard College MFA program in Music/Sound.<ref>{{Cite web| title=Workshop descriptions and Bios | url=https://tools.bard.edu/wwwmedia/resources/files/1957/Workshop%20descriptions%20and%20Bios.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613185309/https://tools.bard.edu/wwwmedia/resources/files/1957/Workshop%20descriptions%20and%20Bios.pdf | archive-date=2024-06-13}}</ref>
==Discography== ===Albums=== *''Fair'' (PRAH, 2013)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18789-bryce-hackford-fair/|title=Fair|website=Pitchfork}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2014/01/02/bryce-hackford-fair/|title=Fair|date=January 2, 2014|website=Fact Magazine}}</ref><ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/fair-mw0002596845|title=Bryce Hackford - Fair Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> *''Amnesia'' (PRAH, 2014)<ref name="factmag.com"/> *''Behind'' (Meakusma, 2015)<ref name="ReferenceA"/> *''Looking Off'' (Perfect Wave, 2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/15102098-Bryce-Hackford-Looking-Off|title=Bryce Hackford – Looking Off (2017, Cassette) - Discogs}}</ref> *''Safe (Exits)'' (Spring Theory, 2020)<ref name="Bryce Hackford: Safe Exits"/> *''Cloud Holding'' (Futura Resistenza, 2022)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/22180819-Bryce-Hackford-Cloud-Holding|title=Bryce Hackford – Cloud Holding (2022, Vinyl) - Discogs}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Discogs artist}} *[http://www.nts.live/artists/6285-bryce-hackford Bryce Hackford at NTS Radio]
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