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Ben Sibson

About Me

Since graduating with honours in composition from the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music in 1997, Ben has been working as a freelance composer and percussionist on a variety of projects and in many genres. He has produced music for many theatrical works, mainly for Terrapin Puppet Theatre co. and IS Theatre Ltd, and has received several commissions from other performance bodies. As a performer, Ben has many years experience as a kit drummer/percussionist, keyboardist, vocalist, conductor and musical director, spanning many genres. Other placements include lecturing at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, working at the music school of the Victorian College of the Arts, and the position of Arts Officer with Arts Tasmania and Arts Victoria.

Ben currently lives in Sydney, freelancing as a composer and audio engineer.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/12/2006
Band Website: http://www.amcoz.com.au/composers/
Band Members: Ben Sibson. Which would be me. Yup. I am a member of me.

On the other hand, I have played with a good deal of other people that are not me. This would include:

Zulya, Tania Bosak, Phil Bywater, Tom Vincent, Joe Pirere, Tim Partridge, Randal Muir, Ralph Forehead, Al Dobson, Kevin Cooney, Geoff Allan, Andrew Sweeney, Ajak Mabia, Les Johnston, Dan Magnus, Matt Boden, Dean Stevenson, and a whole lot of other people who I can't remember right now.

Influences: Peter Gabriel, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, belly button lint, Shostakovitch, Lester Bowie, people that I meet when I'm walking down the street, JS Bach, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, TISM, Philip Glasses Arse, Steve Reich, Mike Oldfield, random urban or nature sounds, Stuart Favilla, Hosam Ramzy, Farmers Market, random Nordic contemporary electronica, Jukka Tiensu, all my friends. And more.
Sounds Like: For my classical-based myspace site click on the link below:

http://www.myspace.com/mbsibson

Youtube videos of theatre works featuring my music
(courtesy Terrapin Puppet Theatre Co.):

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

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City Night   As twilight sweeps beyond the busy streets of reason, fading sunlights building tops with yellow glow, then fadesand meagre stars, sapped of lifeas if they powered the flickering b...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:49:00 GMT

Burn it all down

I was at a pub the other night, listening to Liz Stringer (a singer/songwriter who, despite my natural aversion to singer/songwriters, especially the sort who play acoustic guitars, was pretty fucking...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:19:00 GMT

Physics in the morning

I've been reading a book on the train in the mornings called "The Fabric of the Cosmos", which is basically an overview in reasonably plain english of many of the important developments over the years...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:08:00 GMT

More dreams

Ok, so my subconscious must be working overtime or something. Last night I dreamed the chorus to a song - no words, unfortunately (or fortunately, because any time that I have dreamed poetry and writ...
Posted by on Sun, 13 May 2007 12:38:00 GMT

Goddamn head

The past three nights have given me memorable dreams every time. First it was the one with my father being killed in a duel, and me finding his body (and his soul, lying next to it, wearing a mask whi...
Posted by on Thu, 10 May 2007 16:47:00 GMT

John Cage

In the words of Mr. Cage, I have nothing to say and I am saying it.That is all.
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:30:00 GMT

Resist and polarise - everything is its own destruction

I watched "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" again the other night, purely by accident. I've always liked the book, and thought the film version wan't too bad either, but it got me thinking about a bunc...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:21:00 GMT

Out of the city

I'm eagerly awaiting 4pm today, when I knock off work and get to go and catch a plane to Hobart for the weekend. Really feel like I need the time away from Melbourne, and in particular being back in T...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:04:00 GMT

That CV wot I just posted

Yeah, yeah, I know its all a bit boring and dry and doesn't really belong in a blog, but I needed to have my CV available online somewhere for people to access for work stuff, and it seemed like a goo...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:28:00 GMT

Golden Eyed, the Ship Departed

Well, its Easter, I guess. Played a great gig at Bar Open on Saturday night with the Counterfeit Gypsies, truly excellent fun (despite a violin malfunction and a couple of weird "whats happening now?"...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:22:00 GMT