Ben Neill creates unique musical and visual experiences that blur the lines between acoustic and electronic music performance, ambient textures and grooves, and live interactive video. In Neill’s live performances, the acoustic sounds of his multi-belled instrument are sampled in real time and processed using custom software that interfaces with his notes, dynamics, and 28 onboard controllers; joysticks, distance sensors, switches, and potentiometers. The…

Fantini Futuro (2019) is an electronic opera by Ben Neill for the Mutantrumpet, countertenor, Baroque keyboards, and interactive video projections. The immersive piece is based on the music and life of early Baroque trumpeter/composer Girolamo Fantini, who was responsible for bringing the trumpet indoors from the hunt and the battlefield to the realm of art music. Using an array of interactive technologies, Fantini is depicted as a traveler through space…

ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion) is a multimedia performance collaboration created by artist David Wojnarowicz and composer/musician Ben Neill in 1989. Integrating music, text, and video in a multi-dimensional format, the work embodies the act of acceleration and its sensory manifestations. It is through this frame that Wojnarowicz addressed the accelerating AIDS crisis and the politics of AIDS in the United States at that moment. ITSOFOMO is a…