Ben Neill (b. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1957) is a trumpeter and composer who has studied with La Monte Young. His music has been recorded on the Astralwerks, Verve, and Six Degrees labels. Neill spent six years as the curator for The Kitchen in New York. He has collaborated with DJ Spooky, David Wojnarowicz. Page Hamilton, Mimi Goese and Nicolas Collins, and performed on albums by David Behrman, John Cale, Rhys Chatham, and DJ Spooky. .

Neill invented the mutantrumpet, which is a trumpet equipped with extra bells and valves, and electrical modifications that allow him to control computer variables with his playing. The first mutantrumpet had three bells, six valves, a trombone slide and an analog processing system. At the Steim Studios in Amsterdam he then developed a MIDI-capable mutantrumpet, which contained more switches, knobs, and pressure-sensitive pads so as to allow greater control over the sound and visuals of his sound installations. Robert Moog designed its electronic processing system and David Behrman designed a computer program to facilitate live performance.

He has performed his music extensively in a wide variety of international settings including the Cite de la Musique France, Berlin Love Parade Germany, Spoleto Festival Italy, Umbria Jazz Italy, NIME Festival 2006 Paris, Bang On A Can Festival New York, ICA London, Istanbul Jazz Festival Turkey and the Edinburgh Festival UK. The Sci-Fi Lounge, his collaboration with DJ Spooky and Emergency Broadcast Network, toured America and Europe in 1997.

In 2005 Neill premiered a collaboratiion with visual artist Bill Jones titled Palladio, an interactive movie based on Jonathan Dee’s 1998 novel of the same name. Palladio was premiered at the New Territories Festival in Glasgow, Scotland, and at the Thalia Theater/Symphony Space in New York City.

Neill is also active as a sound and installation artist. His collaborative works with Bill Jones have been exhibited in museums and galleries including Sandra Gering Gallery New York, Exit Art New York, Wellcome Gallery London and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Neill’s installation/performance Green Machine was shown at Paula Cooper Gallery in 1994. ITSOFOMO, his major collaborative piece with the late artist David Wojnarowicz, has been exhibited in venues such as The New Museum New York and PPOW Gallery New York, and was featured in the recent PBS documentary Imagining America.

He is currently a part-time professor of Music Technology at NJIT.

External links

• BenNeill.com
• TheKitchen.org
• MELAFoundation.org:

Listening

• featuring audio and video for the Automotive ads
• Ben Neill interview - small WORLD Podcast 2006

References

• Sitcoms Online - Invasion - The Complete Series DVD Review Introduction:. The town of Homestead, Florida has just been struck by Hurricane Eve but There is a spooky photo on the case when you take out each disc.
• titlecue.com Spooky music box introduction and plucky winds set the scene for a Halloween mystery. Music box, synths, winds, Before the Hunt, Firestone. mp3. 0:55
• HENRY KRINKLE'S HOUSE OF SOUND The Samples - Intro Wu-Tang - 7th Chamber Part 2 Black Mamba Diesel Ya'll Been Warned 12. "Outro" – 0:55. Posted by Henry Krinkle at 10:34 PM 3 comments
• Discography - Part III Intro 2. Light Your Ass On Fire (Busta Rhymes feat Pharrell) 3. .. Spooky (Classics IV) (2:51) 12. Bohemian Like You (The Dandy Warhols) (3:28) 13.
• Dead Poets Society - Szenenprotokoll scene 2, Headmaster Nolan’s speech with introduction of Keating. .. Neil lies to Keating saying that he has actually talked to his father, 0,55, 1:25:17
• Blogs Watch » Boing Boing Cereal Killers — forthcoming book of spooky funny cereal box art . Deconstruct (and remix) BBtv's 8-bit animated intro
• Mightybook.com - (Illustrated) Main Catalog LOUIE THE BAT — Spooky opening; then a little lullabye story just like we . MY SHADOW — (with no introduction) Only a multimedia presentation of this
• Amazon.com: Profile For Garrett H. Hansen: Reviews 2 in C is spooky in its cross-rhythms and modal ambiguity, and Perahia's performance This book is a great introduction to the theory of Fourier series.
• Dead Poets Society - Szenenprotokoll scene 2, Headmaster Nolan’s speech with introduction of Keating, 1,53, 0:02:05 . Keating saying that he has actually talked to his father, 0,55, 1:25:17
• crepuscule main catalogue pt.2 TWI 805 KID MONTANA Spooky Oct 86 7": BE 1986 (Crepuscule 7TWI 805) 3:28 DEBORAH HARRY CD: BE 1998 (Crepuscule TWI 1054) 0:27 Intro 5:35 Fathouse
• GarageBand.com : all reviews for Gargoyle (Soundtrack) by Sean Timms After about 3:00 it starts sounding less spooky and more beautiful, like a fanstasy .. This intro gives way to a collection of sound effects at 0:55.
• Tony's CD List Spooky (1:07); Cry (2:21); Ease (2:57); Got My Hand In Your Head (1:39) Entry Of The Gladiators (0:55); Mick Jagger's Introduction Of Jethro Tull
• Haunted Mansion FAQ - Better Haunts Special! Special Note: With the introduction of the Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay at .. Another spooky event that is not directly Mansion-related is WDW's
• Antrabata´s Studio Sessions Box Set take one - church organ intro (0:17 - 0:47). - take two - inc. faster guitar (0:55 - 2:02). - JP apologizes for messing up. - take three - inc.