“Ben Neill is using a schizophrenic trumpet to create art music for the people.” Wired Magazine Sonic pioneer Ben Neill is the inventor of the Mutantrumpet, a futuristic, hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. Neill is widely recognized as a musical innovator, blending influences from electronic, jazz and minimalist music. Neill has recorded thirteen albums of his music on labels including Universal/Verve, Astralwerks, Thirsty Ear, and Six Degrees, as well as his own Blue Math label. Performances include BAM Next Wave Festival, Big Ears, Lincoln Center, Whitney Museum, Cite de la Musique, Bing Concert Hall, Moogfest, Spoleto Festival, Umbria Jazz, Bang On A Can Festival, ICA London, Istanbul Jazz, and the Edinburgh Festival. Neill has worked closely with many musical innovators including John Cage, La Monte Young, John Cale, Pauline Oliveros, Rhys Chatham, DJ Spooky, David Berhman, Mimi Goese, Mikel Rouse, and Nicolas Collins. A long time student and associate of La Monte Young, Neill leads concerts of Young’s brass music and performs with Young's Theater of Eternal Music. Neill began developing the Mutantrumpet in the early 1980s, originally working with synthesizer inventor Robert Moog. In 1992 Neill made the Mutantrumpet fully computer interactive at STEIM in Amsterdam. Mutantrumpet V4 made its debut in 2019.