Ben Miller, April 10, 8 PM, Green Kill Sessions
Green Kill Sessions presents Ben Miller Wednesday, April 10, 8 PM.
This event has been cancelled. Green Kill Sessions presents Ben Miller Wednesday, April 10, 8 PM. Ben Miller’s deconstructed Gibson Kalamazoo is equipped with 4 pickups panned Left/Right; 1 in standard bridge position, 1 inverted above the first fret and 2 Piezos at the headstock and on the guitar body near the bridge. Screws, springs, silverware, binder clips, 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. Read more below.
Tickets
This event is a livestream production. You can watch in person ( maximum audience of 30) or by viewing the Green Kill Sessions livestream (unlimited audience).
Live Audience tickets are 10 dollars. Includes a livestream link in ticket confirmation page.
Livestream tickets are 5 dollars Includes a livestream link in ticket confirmation page.
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Ben Miller
Ben Miller’s deconstructed Gibson Kalamazoo is equipped with 4 pickups panned Left/Right; 1 in standard bridge position, 1 inverted above the first fret and 2 Piezos at the headstock and on the guitar body near the bridge. Screws, springs, silverware, binder clips, 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 tape loops, and the extreme use of a Bigsby tailpiece enhancing the instrument’s erratic microtonal sound. The mixed output is run stereo through two big guitar amps. The guitarscape is created through spontaneous and loosely structured improvisation. 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