Ben Owen works with sound with various approaches, improvised, recording, listening and scored pieces. His instruments are simple electronics; played, mixed, open to their own trajectory of small sound, broken and accidental. His interest is in the sustained, immersive, minimal soundscape which interacts within a space as well as as a part of an outside environment. Over the past few (pre-pandemic) years he’s found more interest in presenting works, performing and recording in outdoor spaces.
“Ben Owen is an investigator, explorer and illustrator of the physical properties of the world we inhabit. His work across multiple media, including sound, video and, importantly, stone litho printmaking, is motivated by a desire to more deeply understand the inner life and character of the materials he works with, rather than an impulse to control or implement them. While Ben doesn’t shy away from the use of the computer, he is much more interested in the rich dynamism of the structures and forces he investigates — electricity, light, ink, spatial acoustics, field recordings — than in the power and precision of software-driven techniques.” – Morgan Packard
