Mutantrumpet creator Ben Neill Proposes a Democratization of Music: The Echoes Interview
Ben Neill has been on the bleeding edge of new and electronic music for decades. He created his own instrument, the Mutantrumpet, which has three bells, two valve sets, a mini-trombone slide and all kinds of electronics to create a music that references Miles Davis and lounge music, urban jungle beats and space music overdrive. Now he has a book, Diffusing Music – Trajectories of Sonic Democratization, that follows music from the early 20th century Futurists to Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Minimalism, electronic artists and now, Artificial Intelligence. And Neill was in the thick of a lot of this. From a personal perspective he takes us on a journey where he proposes that now, anyone can make music. We talk to him about it today on Echoes from PRX.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025 – Echoes Program 2511B |
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Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Kaki King | We Did Not Make the Instrument. It Made Us | The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body |
| 0:06:00 | ODESZA | Severance: Music to Refine To | Severance: Music to Refine To |
| 0:15;24 | HAAi & Tom VR | Can’t Stand to Lose (hard soft rework) | Can’t Stand to Lose (hard soft rework) |
| 0:19:35 | Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch | Goodbyes | The Agency (Original Soundtrack) |
| 0:24:58 | 9 Theory and Torii Wolf | Evaporate (feat. xii) | Soft Realms |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Interview: Ben Neill | ||
| 0:44:32 | Ben Neill | Nefasphere (with Mikael Seifu) | Amalgam Sphere |
| 0:48:23 | Ben Neill | Blisspeak | Amalgam Sphere |
| 0:53:08 | break | ||
| 0:53:44 | Tony Gerber | Fire & Ice (Poem by Robert Frost) | Singing Poet Society™ Volume Two |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | Jesse Cook | Fate (Parasol Reprise) | Tempest |
| 1:06:00 | Yaima | Emperor | Emperor (Single) |
| 1:11:00 | Deuter | Fjallastelpa (Mountain Girl) | Mangata |
| 1:17:15 | Swomp | The Runestone | Legend of the Runestone |
| 1:19:45 | Manika Kaur | Siddharha | Devocean |
| 1:24:22 | Mark Dwane | Blue Cosmos | Future Tense |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | David Helpling and Eric the Taylor | The Precious Dark | The Precious Dark |
| 1:38:40 | Cassandra Jenkins | Omakase | My Light My Destroyer |
| 1:43:04 | Anouar Brahem | After the Last Sky | After the Last Sky |
| 1:48:38 | break | ||
| 1:49:30 | The Weather Station | Ribbon | Humanhood |
| 1:52:28 | Billow Observatory | Systol Nightshade | The Glass Curtain |
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