School of Contemporary Arts (CA)

Faculty Profile: Ben Neill

Assistant Professor of Music Production and Industry

Year Joined RCNJ: 2008

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-6283
• E-mail: bneill@ramapo.edu
• Office: A-202
• Office Hours: R 11:00-2:00
• Personal Website
• MySpace Page

Education:

• B.M., Youngstown State University
• M.M., Youngstown State University
• D.M.A., Manhattan School of Music

Courses Offered:

• The Business of Music
• Advanced Business of Music
• Marketing and Management in the Music Industry
• DJ Culture
• Intermediate Music Recording
• Online Music

Awards and Special Recognition:

• Commission to create Persephone with Ridge Theater by BAM Next Wave Festival, 2008
• Finalist for Creative Capital grant, 2009
• Association for Independent Music awards, nominated for best electronica CD, 2003
• Grand Clio award for sound design of Volkswagen Turbonium website, 2000

Recent Scholarly and Professional Accomplishments:

Publications/Recordings:

• Published article in Leonardo Music Journal, MIT Press, 2003
• Contributor to Art in the Digital Age, Thames and Hudson, 2006
• Chapter in David Wojnarowicz:A Definitive History, (Semiotexte/MIT Press), conversation with Sylvere Lotringer, 2006
• Chapter in Audio Culture, Readings in Modern Music, Continuum Press, 2004
• Interview with Christian Marclay, Bomb Magazine, 2003
• Automotive, CD co-produced by Six Degrees Records, Arnold Advertising and Volkswagen, 2002

Curating:

• Organized River to River Festival concerts at World Financial Center Winter Garden, 2008
• Organized Playvision series of concerts at World Financial Center gallery, 2006

Performances:

• Artist in Residence at STEIM electronic music studios, Amsterdam, NL, 2008
• Bard College Summerscape Festival, Annandale, NY, 2008
• Guest lecturer, Free University of the Radio, Resonance FM, London, UK, 2008
• Op On Screen Festival, New York, NY, 2008
• Ableton Live/Apple Computer workshop, B and H Photo, New York, NY, 2008
• Lincoln Center Scanners Festival, Walter Reade Theater, New York, NY, 2007
• Festa de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, 2007
• Guggenheim Museum DJ night, New York, NY, 2007
• Joe's Pub, Public Theater, New York, NY 2007
• Etnafest, Catania, Italy, 2007
• New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conferences, 2005 Vancouver, 2006 IRCAM, Paris, France
• NIME Conference selection committee, New York, NY, 2007
• FONT Festival of New Trumpet, New York, NY, 2006
• Symphony Space, collaboration with DJ Spooky, New York, NY, 2006
• BAM Café, Brooklyn, NY, 2006
• New Territories Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, 2005
• Symphony Space Thalia Theater, New York, NY, 2005
• Exit Art, New York, NY, 2004
• Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2003

Scoring / Broadcast:

• Soundtrack for Guest of Cindy Sherman, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2008, sponsored by Sundance Channel, screened in over 20 film festivals in 2008
• Soundtrack for 911-911, a film by artist Mel Chin commissioned by Creative Time, premiered at Tribeca Cincmas, 2007
• Imagining America, PBS special, ITSOFOMO excerpt, collaboration with David Wojnarowicz, 2005
• Licensed music for ESPN TV show Tilt, 2005
• Composer of music for Theater for a New Audience production of Coriolanus, John Jay Theater, New York, NY, 2005
• Licensed music for NBC TV show Boomtown, 2004

Exhibitions:

• ITSOFOMO, collaboration with David Wojnarowicz, Kunsthalle Exergasse, Vienna, Austria, 2008
• ITSOFOMO, collaboration with David Wojnarowicz, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, 2007
• East Village Scene, The New Museum, ITSOFOMO, collaboration with David Wojnarowicz, DVD from show, 2005
• This Must Be the Place, Bard College gallery, Annandale, NY, Posthorn, DVD, collaboration with Bill Jones, 2005
• Out of Silence; David Wojnarowicz, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY, ITSOFOMO, 2004
• Sundance Festival 2004, Video Remixes, collaboration with Bill Jones
• Terrorvision, collaboration with Bill Jones, "Life During Wartime", Exit Art, New York
• Nite Nite, collaboration with Bill Jones, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York,NY, 2003

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