Pour Furets is a technology teacher with a penchant for experimental music. Driven by the creative promise of technology, Pour Furets uses acoustic, analog, and digital instruments to assemble unusual sounds into music that blends classic industrial with electronica and avant-garde music of the 1950s and 1960s. The music of Pour Furets is an immersive experience. At times, it is brutal and disturbing. Other times, it is poignant and serene.
Pour Furets has performed with the Radford University Digital Ensemble, with a repertoire that included jazz, contemporary film music, and original compositions. He has released three albums on Flexible Records and provided a remix for fellow Flexible artist, ASP. He created an audio-visual piece for the Salt Lake Synth Alliance, combining original music with an environment created in the Unity game engine. He is a multi-instrumentalist and producer with extensive experience programming original sounds on synthesizers and manipulating samples of found sounds and field recordings.
Pour Furets teaches game development, programming, and audio production at Westlake High School in Saratoga Springs, UT, where he is known as Benjamin Test. His passion for the creative potential of technology shows through in his classwork. Whether crafting unique scenarios, 3D models, or entire worlds in a game development class, devision novel solutions to problems in a programming class, or composing electronic music in an audio production class, Pour Furets pushes his students to find their voices and practice skills to express themselves through technology.
