Multiphonic Guitarscape

Miller’s deconstructed Gibson Kalamazoo is equipped with 4 pickups panned Left/Right;
1 humbucker in standard bridge position, 1 humbucker inverted above the first fret, 1 Piezo at the headstock, and 1 Piezo on the guitar body behind the bridge. This provides a sonic physicality to the instrument’s sound.

Springs, screws, slides, binder clips, silverware, restaurant salt shaker, antique surgical tools, and other found objects are used to provoke texture and shape rather than chords and melody. Baritone strings are tuned randomly approximately a tritone below standard pitch.

Miller adds a score of FX pedals, Casio SK1 8-bit sampling, transistor radio, OGM cassette tape loops, and the extreme use of a Bigsby tailpiece enhancing the instrument’s erratic microtonal sound. The mixed stereo output runs through two guitar amps or a large PA system.

Submerged attention and trusting the unknown is Miller’s modus operandi.

IN THE MOMENT: Ben Miller - Two Rooms Records (vinyl/CD) March 2022
"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

Live in Brooklyn, NY April 2024

April 2024 interview by Austin Rich

May 2022 interview by Cary Loren/BookBeat

June 2014 interview by Miguel Copón

Detroit Metro Times 2014 review by Bill Brown