Benjamin Rush Miller

In 2007 and 2008, I did sound design for NYC Poet Carol Novack on her CDRs Inventions I and Inventions II. They are on sale on CDBaby.
on Carol's poem "Babies";
"A very cool, for lack of a better word, sound effect background of every reverberation imagined within the context of her word tapestry only adds to this masterpiece of a woman's lament. This is almost a three-ring circus of breasts, moonshine, and babies swishing around in the wash."
Cicily Janus, Eclectica Magazine Oct/Nov 2007
available for purchase; INVENTIONS II: Fictions, Fusions & Poems

Below you can see me perform "Unknown Zone" (YOUTUBE) at Abaton's art opening for Don Voisine [May, 2007] in Jersey City. This piece is off of my solo saxophone CDR entitled "All 12 Windows".

Since 2006, I have been composing music for the mutlimedia literary webzine The Mad Hatters' Review . Do check them out!

In 2002, twin Laurence and I released One Full Turn as Twice Removed. This CDR holds a variety of material recorded over the span of several years since I was living in Chicago and he in Ann Arbor. While I was still living in Ann Arbor, Lar and I had a number of bands which recorded a number of recordings in the late 70's and early 80's. Few were released other than Nonfiction, Radio Silence and GKW. Except for two vinyl compilations, all were cassette releases. Lar went on to release some records with Empty Set, while I continued with GKW until the early 90's.

From 1977-78, I played alto sax for the Ann Arbor-based punk band Destroy All Monsters with Cary Loren, Niagara, Larry Miller, Rob King, Ron Asheton (Stooges) and Michael Davis (MC5). That was a glorious mess. I played on their first two 45rpms; "You're Gonna Die/Bored" and "November 22nd, 1963/Meet The Creeper". This band was a bastards' son of two factions; Cary Loren & Niagra and Empool; a psych electronic improv band governed by Lar.

In 1975, I was composing "free atonal" compositions for The Fourth World Quartet, which included Jack Waterstone, brothers Lar and Roger, and later Denman Maroney. I composed for other more eccentric ensembles btw 1972-77.

As for writing words, I've written mostly in the form of lyrics for rock bands through the years. But around 1995, while plodding knee high, waste deep, and up to my nose in a BFA at Columbia College Chicago, I began to write feverishly. The turn of the century produced a novel: ON THE BRINK. It's an absurdist surrealist piece about a country bumpkin who commits murder and then trys to evade conviction by way of time travel. This is accomplished by extreme forms of surgery. I hope to get it published or at least available on this website soon.