Ben Neill "masterfully blurs the lines between electronic dance music and jazz sounds." -- Billboard

Program
Ben Neill will perform music from his ambient music project Trove and the recently released Prana Cantos album on his self-designed Mutantrumpet, with interactive video by Ralph Abraham. The meditative, atmospheric music emanates entirely from the notes and timbres of Neill’s self-designed Mutantrumpet - no other sound sources are used. The timbral improvisations of Neill's multi-belled instrument are captured in real time and transformed into richly textured electronic music using a Fibonacci series-based processing matrix.

Trove combines improvisation and composition based on numerical structures through a network of software applications, and reflects Neill's long history of performing with minimalist pioneer La Monte Young. The Fibonacci series sequences on which Trove is based are used to model the forces of growth and reproduction in the natural dynamical systems of plants and animals. Trove uses this fundamental structure of lifeforms to create a uniquely dynamic form of live ambient music.

Abraham's imagery and animations are based on historical chaotic attractors and their bifurcations for flows (continuous dynamical systems). The visual materials are set in motion and processed by Neill's Mutantrumpet using the instruments notes, dynamics, sensors, and other onboard controllers.