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Join us for an evening with Mutantrumpet in the Hanes House.Get Tickets: https://visit.ncartmuseum.org/16240/17518
Composer/performer Ben Neill is the inventor of the Mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument, and is recognized as a musical innovator who "uses a schizophrenic trumpet to create art music for the people" (Wired Magazine). Neill generates unique musical and visual experiences that blur the lines between acoustic and electronic music, minimalism, and visual media. He'll be joined by Dolphin Uppercut Avenger assisting with video.
Neill's first developed an acoustic Mutantrumpet in the early '80s (3 trumpets combined with a trombone), before collaborating with synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog to integrate electronics; developing a computerized model in 1992, while in residency at the STEIM research and development lab s in Amsterdam (where he returned to create a new version in 2008). Version 4 debuted in 2019.
Recent projects include Trove, a 104 track ambient collection that was created during the Covid pandemic. A live version of Trove utilizing a wireless outdoor sound system that projects sound up to two miles was premiered in 2022 at Manitoga/The Russel Wright Design Center in Garrison, NY.
A native of NC , Neill holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from Manhattan School of Music. Since 2008 he has been a music professor at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where he founded an MFA program in Creative Music Technology.
Neill has recorded 13 albums, and has appeared at BAM Next Wave Festival, Big Ears, Lincoln Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Broad Museum, Bing Concert Hall at Stanford, Getty Museum, Cite de la Musique, Moogfest, Spoleto Festival, Umbria Jazz, ICA London, Istanbul Jazz Festival, Vienna Jazz Festival, and the Edinburgh Festival.
A longtime close associate of minimalist pioneer La Monte Young, Neill has also work with David Wojnarowicz, John Cage, David Berhman, Nicolas Collins, John Cale, Petr Kotik, Pauline Oliveros, Rhys Chatham, DJ Spooky, Mimi Goese, and King Britt. And was the Music Curator at The Kitchen from 1992-98.
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750 Marguerite Dr, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, North Carolina 27106, 750 Marguerite Dr, Winston-Salem, NC 27106-5826, United States,Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Winston Salem
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