Ben Harlan

Composer, Performer, Sound Artist, Music Enabler, Primary School Teacher Improvisor, Classical, Jazz, Folk, Contemporary Noise Soundscapes Collaborator, keen to discern the group's path Interested in devising Movement for people who don't usually move Interest in Narrative and Non-Narrative Structures

I am a Composer/Performer/Collaborator interested in working with others to create new works. I enjoy improvising both as a musician and as a moving artist (I'm not a dancer but enjoy making movement part of a structure) all as a means to create narrative and non-narrative material. I am keen to work with technology to make art and in blurring the boundaries between audience and performer. I play clarinet, saxophone, keys, drums, enjoy things that make sounds. He/Him

Credits

Collaborator, The Rehearsal, Trinity Laban, 2023
Composer, One Day, Netflix, 2024
Composer, Her Name Was Moviola, MUBI, 2024
Band Leader, ZRI, music venues across UK, since 2011, ongoing
Performer with The Burning Bush, trad. Jewish music band, 1995-2010
Composer, Wonderful Beast Theatre Company, 2000
Puppeteer, The Ugly Duckling, Little Angel Marionette Theatre 1999
Performer, Wind In The Willows, Old Vic and National Theatres, 1996

Training

MMus Composition Trinity Laban Conservatoire (part time, ongoing)
BMus Guildhall School of Music and Drama
PGCE Roehampton University

Location

Hampshire

Experience

10+ years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Film - documentary
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Music
  • New technologies / digital
  • Opera
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - documentary
  • TV - drama

What I do

  • Curating
  • Devising
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Music Composition
  • Outdoor performance
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Puppetry
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Sound Design
  • Street Theatre
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Working with young people
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development

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