![]() ![]() I am so excited to bring all of my creations to you yarn lovers out there! I hope that you get lots of happiness and joy from the yarns that I create and you carry that energy and love with you whenever you use or wear them. ![]() I know that sounds dramatic.but It really was a turning point mentally for me-to think about something I had always loved and realizing that I could make this into a business was super exciting! So now there is this shop, lots of beautiful yarn, myself, and there is you reading this. Right there I decided that I was going to take my passion and take the skills I had in my tool belt and bring Pitchfork Fiber to the rest of the world. I thought about what I have always reached for during times of hardship, and for me it is Knitting. I didn't see it coming and was really distraught not having the stability of having constant work in my life. ![]() I got laid off from my job right before Christmas and was really lost for what to do next. **Fast forward to December 2020 and the pandemic** Having the skills I learned back in undergrad, I was able to dye my own yarns to the exact specifications I wanted for certain projects. Jump forward to Chicago! It's 2019 and I am getting my master's in Museum and Exhibition Studies and I find the midwestern weather to be much more influential on my knitting-I wanted to knit all the time! I kept dreaming about the beautiful hand dyed yarns I was seeing on Insta but wasn't in the financial place to buy any. I got really into the YouTube sphere and began recording knitting podcasts-I fell in love with seeing others talk about their projects, showing off their yarn, and knitting inspo. so PITCHFORK FIBER! And right there was born! So when naming my Instagram I thought, pitchfork = the college I go to, and pitchfork = farm things, and wool = farm things. ![]() **Side note** Arizona State is the home of the sun devils and their mascot holds a pitchfork. You can spin fibers, dyed it, knit, weave, crochet with them, quilt, needle punch, felt.really the list goes on and on! As I was in classes one warm day, I thought to myself, I might as well start an instagram showcasing all the things I create in class and at home in my free time. It has so many possibilities and it was exactly the thing that captivated my attention. I have always enjoyed making things with my hands and fiber. Okay, so it's 2016 and I am in college at Arizona State University in a Fine Art of Education program where I began taking tons of fiber arts classes. His works are published by Schott NY, and commercial recordings of his music are available through New Amsterdam Records, New Focus Recording, Parlour Tapes+, and Navona Records.Hi! My name is Hunter and to talk about the beginning of Pitchfork Fiber we have to go back a ways. Past honors include commissions from Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, The Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, The Holland/America Music Society, The MacArthur Foundation, and the Art Institute of Chicago, fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Tanglewood Music Center/Leonard Bernstein Foundation, and Civitella Ranieri Foundation, as well as first prizes in several national and international composition competitions. Recent festival appearances include those at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, Ecstatic Music Festival, Acht Brücken, Aldeburgh Music Festival, Lockenhaus Kammermusikfestival, Aspen, ACO's SONiC Festival, Frankfurter Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Color Field, Musica Nova, and MATA's Interval Series. His works have been featured worldwide in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Köln Philharmonie, the French Academy at Villa Medici, New World Symphony Center, Park Avenue Armory, Teatro de Madrid, Tokyo Bunka Kaykan, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Teatro Amazonas, Le Poison Rouge, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago. Pitchfork Music Festival Paris SeptemUp Next Charli XCX - White Mercedes, Gone ft. Praised by The Chicago Tribune as "minutely crafted" and "utterly lovely," The New York Times as "whimsical" and "surreal," and The Washington Post as "dark and deeply poetic," the music of composer MARCOS BALTER (b.1974, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is at once emotionally visceral and intellectually complex, primarily rooted in experimental manipulations of timbre and hyper-dramatization of live performance. ![]()
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