Music by Ben.Harper

A small but gradually growing selection of my music for you to rapaciously download and then never quite get around to listening to.
Live Performances Selected past and future gigs. Latest in 2008: String Quartet No.2 (Canon in Beta) at RMIT Project Space, and The Old School Is Built On The Ruins Of The New School at Horse Bazaar, Melbourne.
CDs, Recordings (coming soon) Obsolete technology containing music, which may or may not be readily available.
Please Mister Please, and The Boring Like A Drill Hit Parade Other music is available.
	The One Who Was Neither Or Nor I rediscover my hitherto unknown Kiwi roots while touring Melbourne and Brisbane, and learn how to fake a homebrew analogue modular synthesiser on an ageing laptop with a dodgy hard drive. Includes mp3s of two live gigs in their entirety (at least until I use up my bandwidth).
	Redundens How many times can I rewrite Schoenberg’s Three Pieces for Piano, Op.11 into something much less interesting than the original? A work in progress. Redundens 6i for piano is part of Daniel Wolf's A Winter Album.
	Sketch for "A"-16 A glimpse into a new work for live analogue electronics, using bi-directional feedback oscillators made from various devices bought at pawn shops. Includes three mp3s for download to give an idea of how it's going so far.
	St Paul's Pianos With Real Nightingales Nearly two years in the making, mainly because I just couldn't get the electronics right. A series of 23 short chorales for piano, combined with digitally simulated feedback and sampled nightingale stops from old pipe organs. Something for everyone. Includes an mp3 sample for your approval.
	Hentai-Oto-Ma: Last Pieces for Digital Synthesis A set of pieces created at home on the computer, using free and shareware programs, ping pong tables, line noise, random splotches, leftovers, and pornography. "The Night We Burned Down Bimbo Deluxe" is now ready for download as an mp3 - other tracks may follow soon.
	String Quartet No.2 (Canon in Beta) A strict, very fast canon in unison played by 240 string quartets with a remarkably uniform sense of intonation. Its harmonic simplicity and stillness make it a peaceful sonic object for quiet contemplation (he reckons). Full story and mp3 of the 2005 version available for download.
	Magnificent Bastards 23 November 2003: A good day to mess around with tuning programs and I Ching simulators. Eight very short mp3s available for download.
Stained Melodies for Piano Part of a series of 24 short, rather cheerful pieces for piano written in 2000. More information here, including six mp3s available for download. The piano is played by the multitalented Miss Cooky La Moo. No, the piano's not out of tune; it's in 'hard' Ptolemaic just intonation.
Disposable Guitar Play Once Throw Away, and Ola-R A cassette recorded in 1999, produced in a limited edition of six cheap cassettes with handmade covers. The instrument on side A is an electric guitar made with homebrew pickups and a built-in 0.2 watt speaker powered by a 9 volt battery. On side B, lose the guitar and keep the feedback. The B-side was later remixed to become the piece Ola-R. Three mp3s.

* No, not that Ben Harper! Honestly, years ago I used to get misdirected email from slow-witted fans who had trouble using Google. A few of them may still be waiting for that album of trip-hop klezmer I promised them.
All works © Ben.Harper 1999-2008. Recorded in Your Dad’s Den. A Cooky La Moo production.