Transmission Artist
BEN OWEN
See also: EA
ben owen works with projected slide film and experimental electro-acoustic sound. His collaborative projects are with mpld, ting ting jahe, and tiptip. ben organizes seasonal - a series of listening environments that includes performance, installation, weekly radio program radio home listen, and the mp3 composite addenda.
Interested in the theme of organic instability and decay, first investigated with stone lithography printmaking, the practice continues to explore these ideas as relating to listening, response, and performance.
The momentary existence of sound that happens without the guidance of the composer- sounds captured from locations and phenomena are a focus of recordings and performance. These sound-fields are arranged both as raw captures and digitally processed fragments as a continuation of the fragility of mark making.
LINKS
Works
- Tuesday Night Prayer Meeting (Weekly Online Radio Show) Feb. 19, 2008
- speech work, (untitled 080213) (Video Work) ben owen and Justin Lincoln, 2008
- untitled (5 in progress) (Video Work) ben owen and Sarah Halpern, 2008
- Crossed Circuits (Dispatch Series Release) Various Artists, 2005
- Tune(In))) The Kitchen (Dispatch Series Release) Various Artists, 2005
- Scape 2 (Dispatch Series Release) Various Artists, 2004
- Radio 4x4, Walker Art Center (Radio 4x4) Oct. 30, 2004
- Radio Action II (Dispatch Series Release) Various Artists, 2004
- Tune (In))) Catalogue (Dispatch Series Release) Various Artists, 2003
- Giant Ear))) (Weekly Online Radio Show) Hosted by NY Society for Acoustic Ecology,
- Radio Home Listen (Past Online Radio Show) Hosted by ben owen,
Exhibitions & Events
- Cinema On Air, June 21, 2008: 8:15 p.m. (Curated by Sarah Margaret Halpern)
- BYOTV, March 19, 2008 – April 27, 2008 (Curated by The Video Gentlemen)
- Giant Ear))) March 2008_"Winter", March 30, 2008: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. (Curated by New York Society for Acoustic Ecology)
- Triangulation/Radio Home Listen, Oct. 2, 2007: 9 p.m. – Oct. 3, 2007: 2 a.m.
- Triangulation/Radio Home Listen_100207, Oct. 2, 2007: 9 p.m. – Oct. 3, 2007: 2 a.m.
- Radio Lab and Radio 4x4 for Untitled 2002 (he promised), Aug. 19, 2007: 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
- Tune(Out)))side 2007, July 7, 2007: 3 p.m. – 9 p.m.
- Triangulation: Giancarlo Bracchi aka DJ Mangoon, June 19, 2007: 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.
- free103point9 performances for Frequencies, Feb. 4, 2007: 2 a.m. – 6 p.m.
- NY Phonographers Meeting II, Oct. 28, 2006: 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.
- Ting Ting Jahe/mpld + ben owen + sc.all, Oct. 13, 2006: 8 p.m.
- Underpass, Oct. 7, 2006: 6 p.m. – 11 p.m.
- Ear to the Earth opening reception, Oct. 6, 2006: 7 p.m.
- free103point9 @ Observatori Festival, May 5, 2006 – May 7, 2006
- ScopeOnAir, March 10, 2006 – March 13, 2006
- Giant Ear)))_Inside Out_012906, Jan. 29, 2006: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. (Curated by New York Society for Acoustic Ecology)
- Becoming>Millennium, Dec. 3, 2005: 8 p.m.
- Radio Home Listen: collaboration with Send & Receive, Nov. 8, 2005: 9 p.m. – 11 p.m.
- On The Air, Nov. 2, 2005 – Nov. 5, 2005
- Radio Home Listen: Marcos Fernandes, Nov. 1, 2005: 9 p.m. – 11 p.m.
- Radio 4x4, Oct. 27, 2005: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
- NY Phonographers Meeting, II, Oct. 23, 2005: 6 p.m. – 10 p.m.
- Radio Home Listen: Ben Owen, Jeremy Slater, Reto Pulfe, and Gil Sanson, Aug. 30, 2005: 9 p.m. – 11 p.m.
- Radio Home Listen: Civyiu & Ben Owen, Gil Sanson, Aug. 23, 2005: 9 p.m. – 11 p.m.
- King Collision presents, July 23, 2005: 8 p.m.
- Tune(Out)))side, July 4, 2005: 3 p.m. – 10 p.m. (Curated by free103point9)
- Crossed Circuits, April 23, 2005 – June 6, 2005
- Tune(In))) Brooklyn, March 12, 2005: 8 p.m. – March 13, 2005: 1 a.m.
- Radio 4x4 at Rock's Role (After Ryonji) DVD Release, Feb. 26, 2005
- Damian Catera deCompositional Duets with Ben Owen, Tianna Kenned, Dec. 11, 2004
- Seasonal November 2004, Nov. 21, 2004: 8 p.m. – 11 p.m.
- Radio 4x4: Walker Art Center, Oct. 30, 2004
- Tune(In))) Santa Fe, July 17, 2004
- Scape 2, April 24, 2004: 8 p.m. – May 22, 2004: 11 p.m.
- Teach (In))) The Kitchen, April 23, 2004
- Tune(In))) The Kitchen, April 22, 2004: 7 p.m. – 11 p.m.
- Radio 4x4: free103point9 Seventh Anniversary Benefit No. 2, March 20, 2004
- New No York, Nice Disc, Luxury Estates, Andy Graydon, and Ben O, March 11, 2004
- Sawako, the Beige Channel, Radio Ruido + Ben Owen, Feb. 26, 2004: 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
- Aspects of Jupiter, Jan. 10, 2004 – Jan. 21, 2004
- Tianna Kennedy, Ohal Wofford, Doomfishtheater, and Ben Owen, Jan. 15, 2004
- Ben Owen + Ian Epps + Andy Graydon, Dec. 11, 2003: 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
- Great Small Works Fourth Radio Cabaret, Nov. 25, 2003: 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. (Curated by Tianna Kennedy)
- Radio 4x4: Great Small Works, Nov. 25, 2003
- Radio Plays, Nov. 8, 2003: 9 p.m. – Nov. 9, 2003
- Accelera Deck, Scott Allison, Anderegg, Ben Owen, Sept. 24, 2003
- B Owen + Radio Ruido | Workbench | Sickness, Aug. 29, 2003
- Radio, Radio, May 17, 2003: 8 p.m. – May 18, 2003: 2 a.m. (Curated by free103point9)
- Tune(In))), March 1, 2003: 8 p.m. – 2 a.m. (Curated by free103point9)
ARCHIVE
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Audio
- Ben Owen & Gill Arno at Black & White Gallery for Frequencies, Feb. 4, 2007. Performance from duo of owen and Arno, both manipulating radios. Part of a day of free103point9 performances for Frequencies. (audio/mpeg, 30.3 MB)
- Michelle Nagai & Ben Owen at Three-Legged Dog: For Ear to the Earth, Oct. 6, 2006. Performance from Michelle Nagai + ben owen (audio/mpeg, 11.8 MB)
- Giant Ear #9_Inside Out NYC, Jan. 29, 2006. 012906 (audio/mpeg, 81.7 MB)
- Giant Ear: NYSAE Retreat at Wave Farm, Oct. 29, 2005. With Michelle Nagai, Robbin Gheesling, Andrea Williams, Andrea Callard, Ben Owen, Andrea Polli, Chuck Varga, David Watson, and Edmund Mooney. These NYSAE artists speak about their own practices, and the various definitions of acoustic ecology (audio/mpeg, 5.6 MB)
- Radio 4x4: Walker Art Center, Oct. 30, 2004. part of Radio, Access, Democracy conference (audio/mpeg, 56.9 MB)
- Teach (In))): The Kitchen with students from Liberty Hight and Humanities Prep, April 23, 2004. Source material recorded and broadcast with ESL students in The Kitchen. Mono recordings made by Tom Mulligan and Ben Owen, mixed into a stereo document by Ben Owen. Track six on "Tune (In))) The Kitchen" CD (audio/mpeg, 781.1 KB)
- Ben Owen: Live on BION, Feb. 26, 2004. From a performance at OfficeOps on free103point9 Online Radio and BION, the Brooklyn Interactive Outreach Network. Other performances that night included Sawako, the Beige Channel, and Radio Ruido + Ben Owen. (audio/mpeg, 28.5 MB)
- BION: Epps, Graydon, Owen at Officeops, Dec. 11, 2003. Recorded live at OfficeOps, part of the BION weekly Thursday series free103point9 set up there 2002-2004. (audio/mpeg, 5.1 MB)
- PS 122 Fourth Radio Cabaret, Nov. 25, 2003. Tianna Kennedy and Great Small Works put on this show at P.S. 122 with B Owen + Radio Ruido + Tom Roe + DJ Matt Mikas: "Radio 4 x 4" Each performing into a transmitter, mixed together with radios in the space, and LoVid, Gregory Whitehead "Geronimo's Curse," Anna Friz, Lucy Raven, and Coco Rosie. (audio/mpeg, 738 bytes)
Video
- speech work, (untitled 080213), Feb. 14, 2008. ben owen and Justin Lincoln. For free103point9's contribution for a program of works for the Video Gentlemen’s BYOTV exhibition at the New American Art Union in Portland, Oregon. (video/mov, 6.4 MB)
- untitled (5 in progress), Feb. 14, 2008. ben owen and Sarah Halpern. For free103point9's contribution for a program of works for the Video Gentlemen’s BYOTV exhibition at the New American Art Union in Portland, Oregon. (video/mov, 17.3 MB)
- Tune(In))) The Kitchen, April 22, 2004. (excerpt) (video/mov, 36.3 MB)
Image
- Tuesday Night Prayer Meeting radio show image, Feb. 19, 2008. (image/jpeg, 43.8 KB)
- Tianna Kennedy, Todd Merrell, Michelle Nagai, Ben Owen during Radio 4x4 for "Untitled 2002 (he promised)", Aug. 19, 2007. at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Pictured (left to right): Michelle Nagai, Tianna Kennedy, Ben Owen, Todd Merrell. (image/jpeg, 154.1 KB)
- Tianna Kennedy, Todd Merrell, Michelle Nagai, Ben Owen during Radio 4x4 for "Untitled 2002 (he promised)", Aug. 19, 2007. at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Pictured (left to right): Michelle Nagai, Tianna Kennedy, Ben Owen, Todd Merrell, Tom Roe. (image/jpeg, 189.8 KB)
- Giant Ear Image (image/jpeg, 13.3 KB)
- Radio Home Listen Image (image/jpeg, 13.9 KB)