Ben Hovey / HoveyKraft

 Trumpet/keyboard player, Ableton Certified Trainer, playback engineer for Pitbull, featured Grammy award winning artist, and sonic scientist Ben Hovey, aka HoveyKraft, blends his artistry as an accomplished traditional musician with a deep knowledge of music technology, into a truly rare talent.  Fusing electronica with soul, dub, jazz, hip-hop, classical, and world music has taken him from Ultra Music Festival in Miami, to Earthdance in San Francisco, to Burning Man and beyond.  Living in Asheville, NC has greatly nurtured his musical opportunities with its vibrant music scene and support of his original fusion.  Ben is reinventing what is possible in live performance by synergizing the musician and DJ archetypes.   As he plays trumpet with his right hand, he harmonizes on keys with his left, capturing loops live, all while seamlessly remixing and manipulating samples with these performances.  This adventurous approach to improvisation leads to an unmatched ever-changing organic electronic soundscape.  Whether he is performing with friends, or rocking a dance floor as HoveyKraft, you can be sure Ben will be pushing past the boundaries of genre into infinite possibility.  His intense passion for life and his craft is evident in his original performances and other diverse musical projects.  Currently, these include the premier 7 piece Motown/classic soul band, The Business; an Ableton Live improvisational group, Evil Note Lab; teaching music at French Broad River Academy; and a Music and Life Skills program, Inside Out, where he teaches music production using Ableton Live.    

Ben is available for workshops, consulatation, private instruction, and as a DJ/musician/composer/arranger/engineer for hire.