Benjamin R Miller
Composer, Musician, Educator, Collaborator.
Detroit metro area
lifelong musician
current projects:
- Solo Multiphonic Guitar
- Sensorium Chamber Orchestra
- ReGeneration (quartet)
WCBN interview by Jason Voss;
https://soundcloud.com/wcbnlms/2024-03-26-ben-miller-artist-feature-and-interview-by-jav
In the press
solo multiphonic guitar
"In the Moment"
a retrospective on Detroit's Two Rooms Records
"There are a whole lot of interesting guitar oddities on IN THE MOMENT and I’m loving every second of it. Repetitious sonic globules weaving through tape glop and elephant trumpeting run headfirst into a minimalist brick wall. Voids appear, scratch out a few steel-cut melodies and saunter back into the luminous divide. Miller can play it all. Sprawling explorations dissipate into hazy webs. Whatever gets left behind is consumed by the woozy plucks stuck between two ghosts fighting for the last seat on the boat. Rhythmic spillage bleeds into an echo chamber that’s being eaten alive by howling scratches. In the Moment is one hell of a trip."
_ Foxy Digitalis April 2022
"As tasty as stereo prepared guitar improvisation gets. Detailed sonic manipulation in the style of early AMM. Minimal and engaging."
_ Dan Burke / Illusion of Safety, 2023
Orchestral work
Sensorium Chamber Orchestra
SENSORIUM performs pantonal work by Benjamin Miller, Eric Satie's Gnossiennes No. 1-8, Josef Mathais Hauer's Klaviertucke & Zwolftonspiel, and Terry Riley's In C.
- Benjamin Miller: Guitar, Alto & C Tenor Saxophone, Composer, Conductor
- Ralph Katz Bb & Alto Clarinet
- Don Henig Bb & Bass Clarinet
- Tim Holmes Alto Flute, F Mezzo Saxophone
- Dominic Bierenga Flute, Soprano Saxophone
- Mike Khoury, Violin
- Eric Bernreuter, Trombone
- Matt Campbell Double Bass
- Scott Lockard, Guitar
- Martin Schiller, 5-Str. Bass Guitar
- Josh Cook Vibraphone, Percussion
- Jon Jackson Drums, Marimba
ReGeneration
Spontaneous free prog psych blip
- Ben Miller guitar
- Chris Peters bass
- Dave Hurley drums
- Brian McFarlane sound synthesis
Contact Me for Concerts, Workshops,
Art Openings, and Collaboration.
After the demise of Sproton Layer, songwriting continued with further exploration into open-ended improvisation. Through-composed work developed in the mid-70's with The Fourth World Quartet. Then the punk movement hit. Those I played with at this time were Laurence and Roger Miller, Denman Maroney, Michael Davis, Ron Asheton, Rob King, Niagara, Cary Loren, Robert Currie
and a slew of unadulterated freaks.
From the 80s into the next century I returned to a more art-centered sound with GKW, composed for dance, experimented in film and finished school at Columbia College Chicago. Focusing on my self-modified, multiphonic guitar, I played on Dirty Old Man River's Saddest Movie Screen
and Ageless.
This century's revolved around solo multiphonic guitar though I also formed and collaborated in many other projects; Third Border, Glenn Branca Ensemble, The Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra, Ruines w/Franck Vigroux, Reunion's happened for Sproton Layer, GKW and Empool.
{I have also performed with my sons Barrett, Bond & Benjamin!}
My ART is primarily abstract with psychedelic implications. I have a shared opening at The Ann Arbor Senior Center through December 2026. Next June, I will have an opening at Sweetwater's in Ypsilanti.
bennrush@gmail.com --- 734.373.4581
My discography
live performance
mulitphonic guitar concert at East Town Theater
1 year before it was demolished
Upcoming Concert Schedule
Thursday, November 5th
Toledo OH
solo multiphonic guitar @ Robinwood Concert House
7:00 pm $10
November 17th
Detroit MI
Sensorium Chamber Orchestra & Terpsichore Collective perform their unique sound & movement score of Terry Riley's In C @ the Detroit Public Library auditorium at 6:00 pm FREE to the public
Saturday, November 28th
Ypsilanti, MI
ReGeneration (and more!) @ Regal Beagle
a record release party and benefit for "Stop the Data" (anti-data center activism) 8:00 pm ....
2027
TBA
Contact me!
Telephone: +1 555 123 456 789
E-mail: email@example.com
Address: 2148 Street Name, City Name, County, 92103