Ben Miller’s Graphic Score & Found Sound Workshop

Fri. Apr. 12, 2024 at 6:30 pm

All Ages are welcome.
No previous Music or Art experience necessary!

This is a Hands-On demonstration and exchange of ideas on Creative Scoring and Improvisation using Graphic Scores, Found Sound and external operations (dice, stopwatch). There will be a 20 minute presentation on Ben Miller’s musical past influence; Syd Barrett, Arnold Schoenberg, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Psychedelia Rock, spontaneous (free) improvisation, performance art, use of interval rows and chance operations. After which the Workshop begins. Attendees listen to music while drawing. These drawings becomes Graphic Scores to use for performance. Attendees record onto Tape Loops via lo-budget Tape Machines and a Casio SK1 8-bit sampler. Record players, Transistor Radio, Voice, and Found Sound are used to create Music Concrete Composition. Miller records these Pieces and provides MP3’s to those who supply emails.

Admission: $15

Doors open at 6:30PM
Workshop begins at 7:00PM

“Benjamin Miller’s workshop was fun, informative, accessible to the musician or non musician (or inner musician), and varied enough that I thought about the World of Sound differently after we parted ways.”

__Gina Renzi, Event Horizon coordinator, The Rotunda, Philadelphia PA

“Feedback from the Students the following week was very positive. A few of them began to create Graphic Scores to accompany their next project using Loops and Drones.”

__ Jason Sloan, professor of Integrated Digital Arts & Sound, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD

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