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 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 Improvisation in 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
 

ReGeneration

"Falling Awake" studio & live 2026 CD

Sensorium Chamber Orchestra

"Baton for Turtle" studio 2019

solo Multiphonic Guitar

curious songwriting to be released 2027

video

My music videos and performances

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Upcoming Concert Schedule

Thursday, November 5th

Toledo OH

solo multiphonic guitar @ Robinwood Concert House

7:00 pm

November 17

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

April 15

Chicago

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April 22

Miami

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Contact me!

Telephone: +1 555 123 456 789

E-mail: email@example.com

Address: 2148  Street Name, City Name, County, 92103

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