Ernest Hood
Ernest "Ernie" Hood (1923 – March 1995) was an American musician, composer, field recordist, and radio broadcaster based in Portland, Oregon. Originally a jazz guitarist who performed with the Charlie Barnet Big Band in the mid-1940s, Hood contracted polio in the late 1940s and subsequently turned to the zither, early synthesizers, and field recording as his primary creative tools. He is best known for his self-released 1975 album Neighborhoods, a private-press LP combining zither and synthesizer compositions with field recordings of children, transportation, and suburban environments. Long obscure during his lifetime, the album was reissued in 2019 by Freedom to Spend Records to critical acclaim, retroactively establishing Hood as an early figure in ambient music.
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