Contact Ben Miller at info@benmiller.info

Upcoming Performances

2013

Thursday June 6th, 6:30-9:00pm

GMHC, Joan Tisch Building, Peter Krueger Dining Room, 446 West 33rd Street, NYC 10001

The First Annual Founder's Day Celebration and Fundraiser to honor Charles Leslie's 80th Birthday and to honor Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohamn as the founders of The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.
Live performance (cocktail hour) by Ben Miller alto sax & James Ilgenfritz upright bass.

Friday June 14th

The Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI

SPROTON LAYER This will be Sproton Layer's 1st performance in 43 years featuring material from With Magenetic Fields Disrupted (recently remastered/rereleased on World of Sound) and material from their upcoming release Press Your Hand and the Whole Room Fluctuates. Roger Miller; bass, vocal __ Ben Miller; guitar, vocal __ Laurence Miller; drums __ Steve Smith; trumpet

Saturday June 15th

P.J. Lager House, Detroit MI

SPROTON LAYER
Roger Miller; bass, vocal __ Ben Miller; guitar, vocal __ Laurence Miller; drums __ Steve Smith; trumpet

Wednesday June 19th

Silent Barn, 603 Bushwick Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11206

TRANSISTOR
"...Alienated Death Disco." _SKUG

Thursday July 18th

119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford St, Lowell, MA 01851

Ben Miller baritone guitar, John McLellan drums

Friday July 19th

Kymara Museum Art Gallery opening (from the Leslie/Lowman permanent collection, NYC), Portland, ME

Ben Miller: multiphonic guitar w/treatment featuring Hexaphonic pickup & Quadraphonic sound

RESCHEDULE, TBA

ASC, Albany, NY

Ganglion (Ben Miller/Matt Weston) and others TBA

RESCHEDULE, TBA

WSCA 106.1 FM (www.WSCAFM.org), Porsmouth, ME

Live on-the-air Ben Miller: multiphonic guitar w/treatment

RESCHEDULE, TBA

Kymara Museum, Portland, ME

Workshops designed and conducted by Ben Miller; Graphic Score & Found Sound and Building Homemade Instruments. Tickets available soon.

RESCHEDULE, TBA 6pm

TBA Restaurant, Portland, ME

"Dinner Hour" Ben Miller: arch top guitar, vocal

Thursday July 25th

T.T. The Bears / Cambridge, MA

SPROTON LAYER
Roger Miller; bass, vocal __ Ben Miller; guitar, vocal __ Laurence Miller; drums __ Steve Smith; trumpet

Friday July 26th

Mercury Lounge / NYC

SPROTON LAYER
Roger Miller; bass, vocal __ Ben Miller; guitar, vocal __ Laurence Miller; drums __ Steve Smith; trumpet

Saturday July 27th

Flywheel / Northampton, MA

SPROTON LAYER
Roger Miller; bass, vocal __ Ben Miller; guitar, vocal __ Laurence Miller; drums __ Steve Smith; trumpet

Recent Performances

Friday May 17th

Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music CODES Lublin, Poland

The World Premiere of "Twisting In Space" by The Glenn Branca Ensemble.

Friday May 10th 12:30pm

NYU's Strawberry Festival 2013: Mission of Burma, NYC

I'll be playing C-Tenor for a few songs. Laguardia Place (between Washington Square South & 3rd Street - blocked off street for festival)

Friday April 19th

Highwire Gallery, Philly, PA

Ben Miller, Katze & TAPS

Thursday April 18th

Black Alley Theater, DC

Katze, Ben Miller, Insect Factory, TAPS

April Wednesday 17th Sound Design Workshop

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Homemade Musical Instruments Workshop designed and conducted by Ben Miller.

Monday April 15th Grapic Score and Found Sound Workshop

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Graphic Score and Found Sound Workshop designed and conducted by Ben Miller.

Thursday April 11th Grapic Score and Found Sound Workshop Noon - 2:30pm

UMASS - Lowell, MA

Graphic Score and Found Sound Workshop designed and conducted by Ben Miller.

Thursday April 11th 7pm

119 Gallery - Lowell, MA

Ben Miller (baritone guitar) & John McLellan (drum kit).

Tuesday April 9th 7pm / International Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert: Emerging Composers, "Three Stages of the Butterfly" in honor of Morton Subotnik

Room 312 of Roosevelt Hall @ Brooklyn College right off Bedford Ave. Brooklyn, NY.

Bond Miller & Ben Miller will perform their 5' collaboration entitled Neglected 88 for 2 alto saxophones, feedback, and analog tape.
many other students from CUNY will also perform. FREE!

Saturday March 30th

Studio Goude / Paris, France

Ben Miller; standard & multiphonic guitars, vocal, sizzors, paper, rock [bassist Fanny Lafargues performs with me]

Thursday March 26th

The Raymond Bar / Clermont-Ferrand, France

Ben Miller; standard & multiphonic guitars w/Super 8 & 16mm projections by Raphael Maze and Gregory Robin.
Also on bill: Baké-Baké.

Monday March 25th

Buffet Froid / Lyon, France

Ben Miller; multiphonic guitar, voice, tapes.

Sunday March 24th

cAVE 12 / Geneva, Switzerland

Ben Miller; multiphonic guitar, voice, tapes.

Thursday March 21st

Plattfon / Basel, Switzerland

Ben Miller; multiphonic guitar, voice, tapes.
Also on Bill (possibly): Eugene Chadbourne

Wednesday March 20th

CinéPalace / Kortrijk, Belgium

Ben Miller; multiphonic guitar, voice, tapes. Also on bill: Pierce Warnecke

Tuesday March 19th

Café Central, 14 rue borgwal, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Ben Miller; standard & multiphonic guitars, vocal, sizzors, paper, rock [bassist Arnaud Paquotte performs with me].
Also on bill: Pierce Warnecke

Monday March 18th

Le Chaffe / Brussels, Belgium

Ben Miller; multiphonic guitar, voice, tapes.
Also on bill: Pierce Warnecke and Yannick Franck.

Sunday March 17th (evening radio show)

........./ Brussels, Belgium

Ben Miller and Yannick Franck play recorded materials and discuss influences on their work.

Saturday March 16th

Le Guingois / Montluçon,France

TRANSISTOR Franck Vigroux/electronics - Ben Miller/vocal

Monday March 11th

HS63 / Brussels, Belgium

Ben Miller; multiphonic guitar, voice, tapes in collaboration with Yannick Franck. Also on the bill: Mik Quantus & Dagora.

2013 EUROPEAN TOUR March 5th - 31st

Thursday March 7th

Cite de la musique Festival / Paris, France

Glenn Branca's Ensemble - European Tour: "The Ascension - The Sequel"

Saturday February 23rd

Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY 8pm

James Ilgenfritz' series: narrative from Miller's novel "On The Brink" w/analog tape deck abuse.
Poets TBA

Sunday February 17th

KENNEL Recording Studios, Brooklyn, NY

The Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra records Benjamin Miller's "Symphony of Supsicious Activity"

Friday February 15th FREE 6pm

Midtown Manhattan Library @ 40th St & 5th Ave.

The Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra performs Terry Riley's "In C" including compositions by composer-conductor Benjamin Miller.

Wednesday January 30 / Thursday January 31

Capital Area School for the Arts, Harrisburg, PA

Workshops designed and conducted by Ben Miller; Graphic Score & Found Sound, Building Homemade Instruments, Sound Track & Design, Sound and Movement.

Wednesday January 30 8pm

"MOVIATE presents" @ The MakeSpace in Harrisburg, PA

For this evenings performance, Miller will sport a 1960’s Silvertone archtop guitar, which he installed two Tiesco single coil pickups split to stereo similar to early Gretch guitars. Unlike his degeneration prepared multiphonic guitar work that he has focused on for the past 15 years, this music is mellow, near-Tonal sounding, and with few electronics. http://benjaminmiller.bandcamp.com/album/a-ripple-in-the-air

He will also read from his recently published novel ON THE BRINK.

Thursday January 31 8pm

"MOVIATE presents" @ The MakeSpace in Harrisburg, PA

Ben Miller/degeneration: multiphonic guitar, etcetera.

Saturday January 19

The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA.

MISSION of BURMA w/horn section: Ben Miller C-Tenor Saxophone, Steve Smith Trumpet.

Friday January 18

Bowery Ballroom, NYC

MISSION of BURMA w/horn section: Ben Miller C-Tenor Saxophone, Steve Smith Trumpet.

Thursday January 10th / Friday January 11th / Saturday January 12th

Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003

The collaborative multimedia piece entitled NOX, inspired by Anne Carson's book of the same name, will be performed by Merce Cunningham dancers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Reiner with live multiphonic sound design by Ben Miller. Other participants TBA

Saturday December 15th - Doors 8pm

17 FROST Gallery

The SENSORIUM Saxophone Orchestra premiere's a new work Breeding Ground featuring drums, 2 bass saxes, 2 baritone saxes and 3 tenor saxes exploring the varied nature of amplified feedback. 3-walled visual projections by NYC visual artist Orin Buck will present a combined effort of analog video feedback and digital real-time video feedback.
17 FROST Gallery is at 17 Frost St. @ Union Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. Take the L Train to Bedford or Lorimer and walk...

December 8-11th : a 96-hr continuous improvisation

Music Factory @ Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, 540 W. 21st St. NY, NY

70+ improvisers of sound to take place over a course of 96 hours. Confirmed Musicians (as of October 24th) include: Chuck Bettis, Dan Blake, John Cacciatore, Azure Carter, Tina Chancey, Brian Chase, Jonathan Chen, Constance Cooper, Ty Cumbie, Chris Diasparra, Ginger Dolden, Stephen Dydo, Andrew D’Angelo, Russ Flynn, Miguel Frasconi, Myk Friedman, Chris Funkhouser, Ben Gerstein, Anne Hege, Patrick Holmes, Adam Hopkins, James Ilgenfritz, Vincent Jonathan, Travis Just, Peter Krag, Andrew Lafkas, Jamie Paul Lamb, Pete Lanctot, Lukas Ligeti, Denman Maroney, Amelia Marzec, Mara Mayer, Chris McIntyre, Joe Merolla, Benjamin Miller, Jackson Moore, Jonathan Moritz, Sam Morrison, Ras Moshe, Jascha Narveson, Andrea Parkins, Jd Parran, Yuko Pepe, Mike Pride, Josh Roseman, Jay Rozen, John Mark Rozendaal, Dave Ruder, Josh Rutner, Ryan Sawyer, Edward Schneider, Dave Sewelson, Aaron Ali Shaikh, Matt Silberman, Josh Sinton, Gregory Sogorka, Alan Sondheim, John Speck, Brett Sroka, Tomoko Sugawara, Yuri Suzuki, Jacob Teichroew, Wendy Ultan, Barry Weisblat, Cameron Wisch, Peter Zummo.

Sound will begin: Saturday, December 8th @ 12:00AM and finish: Tuesday, December 11th @ 12:00AM
Speical Thanks go out to Christopher Diasparra, Jackson Moore, Alan Sondheim, Edward Schneider, and Ty Cumbie for organizing this 96-hour continuous improvisation titled: MUSIC FACTORY

Friday November 16th 8:30pm doors

MUCHMORE'S 2 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211

Yximalloo (Japan), bennmiller (new release "Call to Arms" saxophone, feedback, tapes), Opponents (NYC),
Bob Bellerue (NYC), Overevo (TX)

Monday October 15th 7pm

The Bessie Awards @ The Apollo, New York, NY

NOX was selected, but not nomoniated for New Production by poet Anne Carson, husband/artist Robert Currie, former Merce Cunningham dancers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Reiner, Tech advisor Davidson and live multiphonic sound design by Ben Miller.

Sunday September 30th

Sonic Circuits Festival, Washington DC

Glenn Branca's Ensemble : "The Ascension - The Sequel"

Friday August 24th

Glenn Branca's Ensemble : "The Ascension - The Sequel"

GBE headlines @ Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
also on bill: Neptune, Christina Carter, White Suns, and Action Beat

Tuesday/Wednesday July 24/25th

Glenn Branca's Ensemble : "The Ascension - The Sequel"

“Mostra Sesc de Artes”, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Sunday July 8th

Glenn Branca's Ensemble : "The Ascension - The Sequel"

MIMI Festival on Ile du Frioul, Marseille, France.

Wednesday July 11th

Ben Miller @ L'hôtel des vils, Clermont, France

alto sax, tapes, detuned guitar, voice and projection.

Ben Miller construit un ensemble dense de diverses fréquences en combinant saxophone alto, feedback et bandes magnétiques. Miller, au milieu des années "70" était saxophoniste dans le groupe Destroy all monsters. Il dirige et compose régulièrement pour le Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra. De 1969 à 71 il est guitariste avec Sproton Layer et actuellement avec Glenn Branca Ensemble. Il chante également sur le projet Transito avec Franck Vigroux.

Thursday July 12th

Ben Miller @ L'Atelier Jaune, Clermont, France

alto sax, tapes, detuned guitar, voice and projection.

Friday July 13th

Ben Miller @ La Cour, Sainte Etienne, France. More info TBA

alto sax, tapes, detuned guitar, voice and projection.

Pour plus d'infos : La Cour"
1, rue Challemel-Lacour – 42000 Saint-Etienne
(Impasse qui donne sur la rue Tardy)
Près du Gymnase Tardy
10 mn à pied de la place du Peuple

Saturday June 30th

17 FROST

The Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra: "IN C" CD release party on Living Records. The S.S.O. will perform revised movements from Benjamin Miller's "Symphony of Suspicious Activity" ending their set with Terry Riley's minimalist classic "In C". 3-walled visual projections by NYC visual artist Orin Buck. 17 FROST Gallery is at 17 Frost St. @ Union Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.
Take the L Train to Bedford or Lorimer

Northeastern US Tour; June 13-23 / Performances & Workshops

Ben Miller: saxophone, tape, and electrodes in support of "Call to Arms" on Living Records
and the publication of his first novel "On the Brink"

This tour also includes concerts with brother Roger as M2 (prepared piano / multiphonic guitar) in support of "At Land's Edge"; their first (vinyl) release on Feeding Tube Records!

Miller's Graphic Score & Found Sound Workshops will be conducted on June 17th and June 23rd (see below)

June 13 Wed. Ben Miller "CALL TO ARMS" cdr release party, Living Records (saxophones, objects, ammunition) opening for McLoud (former members of King Missile, Bongwater, New Radiant Storm King, J.Mascis & The Fog, Phantom Tollbooth)
@ Freddy's Backroom, 627 5th Ave btwn 17th & 18th St., Brooklyn NY, 8:30pm
June 15 Fri. M2 Album Release concert, Feeding Tube Records @ Spectrum, 121 Ludlow, 2nd Floor, New York NY 10002, 7pm June 16 Sat. Ben Miller performs @ Albany Sonic Arts, 247 Lark Street, Albany, NY
June 17 Sun. Ben Miller presents his Graphic Score & Found Sound Workshop Open to the Public, No Experience necessary, Non-Musicians welcome! $5-10 Donation @ 119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford St, Lowell, MA 01851 -- 1pm meet & greet ... 2-5pm Worshop
June 17 Sun. Ben Miller performs @ 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA 7pm
June 19 Tue. Ben Miller (also Man Forever on Thrill Jockey) @ Flywheel, Easthampton, MA
June 20 Ben Miller performs @ The House of Goings-On, 301 Laurel St. Manchester, NH 03103
June 22 Fri. Ben Miller performs @ Whitehaus, 10 Seaverns Ave, Jamaica Plain MA 02130
June 23 Sat. Ben Miller presents his Graphic Score & Found Sound Workshop 11am-1pm, Open to the Public, No Experience necessary, Non-Musicians welcome! $5-10 Donation @ The Armory, Somerville, MA
June 23 Sat. M2 Album Release concert concert @ The Armory, Somerville, MA

Thursday, Friday, Saturday; May 10, 11, 12

Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003

The collaborative multimedia piece entitled NOX, inspired by Anne Carson's book of the same name, will be performed three evenings by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, Merce Cunningham dancers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Reiner with live multiphonic sound design by Ben Miller.

April 22nd --- April 29th

Artist-in-Residence with a final performance in Mende, France

TRANSISTOR: Franck Vigroux: beats, noise and Ben Miller: vocal [with video artist Philippe Fontes]

Wednesday April 18th

Haverford College, suburb of Philly, PA

A collaborative performance by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, and Ben Miller; "Cassandra Float Can" and "Bracko".

Wednesday April 4th

Goodbye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY

9pm: Ben Miller archtop, thoughts.

Monday April 2nd

The Red Room, 425 E. 31st St., Baltimore, MD

Monday April 2nd

M.I.C.A., Baltimore, MD

Ben Miller presents his Graphic Score & Found Sound Workshop to M.I.C.A. students @ 1-3pm

Saturday March 31st 8pm All Ages, FREE

Event Horizon, Rotunda, Philadelphia, PA

Saturday March 31st 2-4pm All Ages, open to the public / $5-10 Donation

The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA

Ben Miller presents his Graphic Score & Found Sound Workshop

Friday March 30th 7pm All Ages, $TBA

Moviate, 1306 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg, PA

Multiphonic Guitarist Ben Miller and Filmmaker Caleb Smith conjoin to present a pixelglitch audio/visual premiere. Included for the evening is Miller's 16mm silent short "In Half" filmed in 1993.

Friday March 30th, 2 Classes; 7:45-9:45am & 12:30-2:30pm

Capital Area School for the Arts (CASA), 150 Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, PA

Ben Miller presents his Graphic Score & Found Sound Workshop to students www.casa-arts.org

Friday February 10th, 2012 8:00pm All Ages, $donation

Douglass Street Music Collective, 295 Douglass St. (btw 3rd & 4th Ave.), Brooklyn, NY.
Subway: M, R to Union St. stop

The Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra premiere's new work with guest artist Denman Maroney playing hyperpiano.
Rellimnotnisyenoram: Ben Miller (tapes), Josh Sinton (contrabass clarinet), Denman Maroney (hyperpiano)
Natura Morta: Frantz Loriot (viola), Sean Ali (prepared bass), Carlo Costa (drums)

Monday Dec. 19th 9pm All Ages, $donation

Goodbye Blue Monday 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn NY

9pm: Ben Miller stereophonic archtop guitar & monophonic thoughts including excerpts from his first novel
"On The Brink".

December 9, 10 , 11, 12

Glenn Branca's Ensemble - European Tour: "The Ascension - The Sequel"

- Friday 9 December 2011: Bad Bonn Kilbi Festival, ZURICH, Switzerland
- Saturday 10 December 2011: State X New Forms Festival, DEN HAGUE, Netherlands
- Sunday 11 December 2011: Muziekclub 4AD, DIKSMUIDE, Belgium
- Monday 12 December 2011: Le Lieu Unique, NANTES, Francea

Saturday November 19th Art Opening & Performances 8pm? All Ages $TBA

Eris Temple, Philly, PA

Art Opening for Dan (more info soon), Ben Miller stereophonic archtop guitar & monophonic thoughts including excerpts from his first novel "On The Brink". Also on the bill: other musicians of eclectic sorts.

Friday November 18th "Seven Delightful Sins" 6pm till ?

produced by The Leslie/ Lohman Gay Art Foundation and Kymara Gallery, 127-B Prince Street (at Wooster Street) New York City, NY 10012 (212) 431-2609 Subway: N, R to Prince Street

Opening for exotic, erotic photographic work by Charles Gatewood.
6pm performance by Ben Miller/alto saxophone, James Ilgenfritz/upright bass, and an as-of-yet third wheel.

David E. Williams (headliner)- internationally esteemed balladeeer of doom. David Talento - live 8bit and lofi audio plus video/audience participation project. Radio Eris - psychedelic spoken-word stage show. Ben Miller: alto sax, subliminal messages, projection. Urchin - new project from musical mystics Josh Shaffer and Christoph Lopez of Yohimbe/SASD. Body painting by LizZ.

Tuesday October 18th 8pm All Ages, $donation

Goodbye Blue Monday 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn NY

8pm: Tuesday Teacup Open Mic > 9pm: Ben Miller archtop guitar & vocal, excerpts from "On The Brink" > 10pm: Me and My Arrow > 11pm: PICTURES OF THEN > Midnight: Doubting Thomas Cruise Control

Friday September 30th 2-8pm Free/All Ages

Creative Grove: PATH Grove Street Stop (street level, on the corner), Jersey City, NJ

Jersey City Arts & Craft gathering w/Ben Miller acting as DJ spinning tracks mixed with live performance (alto saxophone/FX) throughout the afternoon and into the evening. Miller's original paper mache and latex masks available at 2011's recession prices.

Saturday September 10th 6:30-9:30pm

White Box Gallery, 329 Broome St. NYC, NY. 10002

For the closing Party of "How to Philosophise with a Hammer", there will be a special performance by The Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra utilizing the low-end spectrum of the family; tenor, baritone, bass and drummer: kick, floor toms. In honor of John Cage's birthday, 4' 23" will be premiered.

Wednesday August 24th 6:30-9:30pm

Phaidon / Store, 83 Wooster St. NYC, NY 10002 (btwn Broome and Spring St.)

A presentation of the White Box Sustainable Art Garden and panel discussion on sustainability in art, architecture and design. Moderated by Ali Hossaini. Panelists: Frances Levine, Frances Levine Studio, David Turnbull, ATOPIA, Maria Aiolova, Terreform ONE. Ben Miller (9:00 to 9:30pm): alto saxophone, subliminal messages, projection.

Saturday August 20th 8pm, all ages, $5.

Moviate, 1306 N. 3rd st. Harrisburg, PA

Ben Miller: alto sax, subliminal messages, projection, THESE SEEDS (from York) will open.

Friday August 19th, 2011 8:30pm, all ages, $8

Pyramid Atlantic, 8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD - a Sonic Circuits Production

Ben Miller: alto sax, subliminal messages, projection. Also on bill: Eli Keszler, Benjamin Nelson, Beruhrung, David Pate.

.............(Gap in performance dates due to promotion via MySpace)...................................

Sunday March 8th, 2009 8pm $10 suggested Donation

Douglass Street Music Collective, 295 Douglass St. (btw 3rd & 4th Ave.), Brooklyn, NY. Subway: M, R to Union St. stop

Denman Maroney; hyperpiano and Ben Miller; multiphonic guitar w/treatment. Also playing this evening will be;
Josh Sinton, Mike Pride, Brandon Seabrooke and Justin Peake.
Nate Wooley, Harris Eisenstadt, Adam Linson, Kai Fagashinski and Michael Thieke.

Friday January 30th 9pm Donation

Douglass Street Music Collective, 295 Douglass St. (btw 3rd & 4th Ave.), Brooklyn, NY. Subway: M, R to Union St. stop

The Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra FIRST PERFORMANCE EVER! This ensemble consists of 15 saxophonists (bass to soprano), 2 drummers and Ben Miller as conductor/composer.

Monday January 26th 8pm $6

Cake Shop, NYC

Thirdborder; also with Dew Claw (w/x-Phantom Tollbooth guitarist)

Monday January 19th 8pm $TBA

The Elevens, 140 Pleasant St., Northampton, MA. 01060

Ben Miller/degeneration with Matt Weston; percussion & electronics, also on the bill is Fat Worm of Error, Thrillpillow, Courtney Brown

NY EYE & EAR FESTIVAL: Friday and Saturday Dec. 12th & 13th $15 (both days!)

The Vanishing Point, Bushwick/Brooklyn, NY

Dec. 12th "table" for LIVING RECORDS (my label)
Dec. 13th 2pm Ben Miller/degeneration; prepared stereo guitar, elec., tape (and "table" for LIVING RECORDS)

Sunday Nov. 23rd 9pm $donation

Freddys Backroom, Williamsburg, NY

The Push-Pull Quartet CD Release Party

Wednesday Oct. 23rd 8pm $TBA

Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY

Ben Miller/degeneration, Motoko Shimizu and Valmonte Sprout performing to "Water Border" by filmmaker Matt Kohn

Monday Oct. 20th 8pm $TBA

Paris London West Nile, Williamsburg, NY

Ben Miller/degeneration; prepared stereo guitar, electronics, tape. Also: Illusion of Safety

Sunday Oct. 19th 8pm $TBA

The Outpost, Cambridge, MA

Ben Miller (prepared guitar, elec.), Roger Miller (bass, elec.) and Matt Weston (perc., elec.)

Sunday Oct. 12th 8pm $TBA

Panic Research / The Electric Possible, Wash. DC

Ben Miller/degeneration, Matt Weston w/Tone Ghosting, and The Baltimore Synthesizer Group

Saturday Oct. 11th 5pm $5

The MegaHZ Festival "Day One" @ The Bridge, Charlottesville, VA

Ben Miller/degeneration; prepared stereo guitar, electronics, tape (and many more!)

Friday Oct. 3rd 8pm $7

The Charleston, Brooklyn, NY

Ben Miller/degeneration; prepared stereo guitar, electronics, tape. (also Millions, TwistyCat, and more)

Sunday Sept. 28th 8pm $8

The Sonic Circuits Festival @ The Velevt Lounge, Washington, DC

Ben Miller/degeneration; prepared stereo guitar/electronics (and more)

Sunday Sept. 21st 8pm $TBA

Sci-Fi @ Gojjo, PA

Ben Miller/degeneration; prepared stereo guitar/electronics (and more)

Sunday Sept. 14th 8pm $donation

Pyramid Atlantic Silver Springs, MD

Benn Mille; alto sax, electronics, analog synth and tape.

Wednesday Sept. 10th 10pm $donation

Danger Danger Gallery Philly, PA

Ben Miller/degeneration; prepared stereo guitar/electronics

Monday Sept. 8th 8pm $TBA

Cornelia Cafe, NYC

Motoko Shimizu voice/toys
Ben Miller/degeneration prepared stereo guitar/electronics

Saturday Aug. 9th 10pm Donation

Goodbye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn

Ben Miller/degeneration prepared stereo guitar/electronics, & Matt Weston drums/electronics

Friday July 25th 9pm Donation

Goodbye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn

Ben Miller/degeneration prepared stereo guitar/electronics, Motoko Shimizu voice/toys, and Brian Osborne found sound, electronics, drums.

Tuesday July 22nd 10pm Free

Hank's Saloon, NYC

Third Border [also Terrirtories and Trades from Boston]

Sunday July 13th 6pm Free

The Abaton Garage, 100 Gifford, Jersey City

The Push-Pull Quartet (minus one) performs at 6pm. Come for refreshments and ART starting at 3pm; a 5' taxi ride from Journal Square PATH station. Come hang out with all those "artist-types"...

Friday July 11th 6pm $8

Haven Arts Gallery, 50 Bruckner Blvd., South Bronx, NYC

Ben Miller; sax improvisation with poets Carol Novack and Larissa Shmailo with other poets/musicians, food and all around cheer in the southern bronx community. This is a special MAD HATTER'S REVIEW experience :), a literary webzine for which I compose.

Thursday July 10th 7pm $6

Cake Shop, NYC

Third Border (our set is 11pm sharp) [also Terrirtories and Trades from Boston, and more]

Monday June 16th 11pm Donation

Goodbye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn

Ben Miller/degeneration with brother Roger (mission of burma) prepared stereo guitar & prepared stereo piano

Saturday June 14th 10pm Donation

Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn

Third Border finish their artist-in-residence SECOND SATURDAZE

Friday June 6th 8pm Donation

STAIN, East Bushwick (2 blox down from Grand L stop)

The Push-Pull Quartet (first set by Ryan Snow - solo trombone)

Friday June 6th 5:30-6pm Free

The Kitchen Cafe, 67 Greene St., Jersey City (a few blocks west of the Exchange PATH stop)

Ben Miller / solo saxophone

Tuesday June 3rd 8pm $10

The Gershwin Hotel, NYC

Ben Miller/degeneration with Motoko Shimizu
Matt Kohn Film Exhibition incl. animation of Degenerations' "Sirens of Phobos" title track

Sunday June 1st 9pm $8

Middle East / upstairs - Cambridge, MA

Third Border
also Territories, Trades and Hot Box

Monday May 26th 9 pm FREE w/$2 drink min.

Spike Hill; 184 Bedford Ave., Williamsburg

The Push-Pull Quartet

Saturday May 10th 10pm Donation

Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn

Third Border continuing their "artist-in-residence" SECOND SATURDAZE

Thursday May 22nd 9 pm Donation

Goodbye Blue Monday

The Push-Pull Quartet crawls out from its 6-month hiatus

Sunday May 4th 4pm $18

Bowery Poetry Club, NYC

The Madhatters Review Benefit; Ben Miller solo sax @ 4pm w/many others to follow! PLEASE support this fabulous multi-media webzine!

Thursday April 24th 9pm $7

Death By Audio in Williamsburg

Ben Miller / degeneration (w/6 other bands)

Wednesday Mar. 12th 9pm $6

The Trash Bar directions

Third Border
Ben Miller; guitar, vocal. Gerard Smith; bass. Jarrod Ruby; drums

Saturday Mar. 8th 10pm Free

Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn

Third Border continuing their "artist-in-residence" SECOND SATURDAZE

Saturday Jan. 19th 9pm $20 adv./door

Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Third Border (opening up for Mission of Burma)

Saturday Jan. 12th 11pm Free

Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn

Third Border begin their "artist-in-residence" SECOND SATURDAZE

Thursday Dec. 27th 8:30pm $8

Luna Lounge, 361 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY

Third Border

Saturday Dec. 8th 3pm free

Community Center / Parish Hall, 39 Erie St., btw 2-3 Streets, Jersey City (near Grove PATH station) as part of The Grace Church Bazaar

Ben Miller / degeneration

Friday Dec. 7th 3pm free

Ria's Cafe, 24 Mercer St., next to City Hall, Jersey City (near Grove PATH station) as part of the quarterly "JC Fridays"; the day long series of free cultrual events in Jersey City

Ben Miller / degeneration

Wednesday Nov. 14th 9pm donation

Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn

The Push-Pull Quartet minus one

Tuesday Nov. 13th 9pm donation

Freddy's Backroom, Brooklyn

The Push-Pull Quartet minus one

Friday Nov. 2nd 9pm donation

Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn

Third Border

Friday Sept. 28th 8pm $8

Trash Bar, Williamsburg

Third Border

Wednesday Sept. 26th 7pm TBA

Maxwell's, Hoboken

Third Border

Sunday Sept. 16th 8pm $5 donation

ABC No Rio, NYC

Ben Miller / degeneration

Sunday Sept. 9th 5pm FREE

Abaton Garage, Jersey City

The Push-Pull Quartet

Thursday Sept. 6th 7pm $8

Alphabet Lounge, NYC

Third Border

Friday August 17th 8pm $7

5C Cafe and Cultural Center, NYC

The Push-Pull Quartet and Ben Miller/degeneration

Sunday August 5th 8pm $5 donation

ABC No-Rio, NYC

The Push-Pull Quartet and also Robyn Siwula;viola and Mike Irwin; trumpet

Wednesday July 25th 8pm $5 donation

Freddy's Backroom, Brooklyn

The Push-Pull Quartet minus one

Thursday July 5th 9:30pm

Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn

Ben Miller/degeneration and also The Push-Pull Trio

Monday June 11th 7:30pm $8

Luna Lounge, 361 Metropolitan Ave., Williamsburg

THIRD BORDER

Ben Miller; guitar, Luke Kozikowski; bass, Jarrod Ruby; drums.
This is our debut gig with our new lineup

Sunday June 10th 5pm-midnight $20

The Gallery Bar, NYC

The Mad Hatter's Review (a multi-media literary webzine) FUNDRAISER

The Push-Pull Quartet (our debut gig!)

Ben Miller; alto sax, composition. Chris Welcome; guitar.
Shayna Dulberger; upright bass. John McClellan; drums

Friday May 4th 8pm Free

Sweet Priscilla's, 530 Jersey Ave., Jersey City [a couple blocks from the PATH Grove stop]

Abaton Book Company presents an art opening for minimalist painter Don Voisine

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