Unsettlement Music creates hybrid music and theater works.

We make independent and eclectic pieces. We are a production, publishing and educational enterprise, and our work extends beyond the stage.

Our work centers discourse, difference, collaboration and shared creative spaces.

PLACE by Ted Hearne and Saul Williams, created with Patricia McGregor

We pursue questions of history.

How does art represent, capture, or reflect the stories of the people who made it?
When we hear music, are we conscious of the sources and origins of its sounds, and of the experiences of the people who created them?
Can we harness that consciousness provocatively
and creatively?
What histories are contained in music?
What is our agency within those histories?

The foundation of our work is relational. Through sound and performance, we diagnose the roles we play in the histories around us.

Founded by composer, vocalist, and bandleader Ted Hearne, Unsettlement Music’s work has been at the heart of acclaimed collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Carnegie Hall, Deathbomb Arc Records, Komische Oper Berlin, Festival Musica of Strasbourg, Royal Ballet of London, New York City Ballet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Münchener Biennale, Guggenheim Museum, and many more. These works are available to be licensed by third parties for performance.