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Owen, Ben

Turning

(Wind Measure Recordings

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Owen, Ben : Turning (Wind Measure Recordings)

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Using a reel to reel deck, a mixer, electronics, and extraneous room sound, Brooklyn-based Ben Owens creates an album of contrasting drones and spaces, harmonically rich or pure tones contrasting with slowly drawn tape and abstract environmental sound, bringing enigmatic moments amidst drifting hiss and subliminal resonance; mysterious and intriguing.

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Label: Wind Measure Recordings
Catalog ID: wm49
Squidco Product Code: 27330

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2018
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardstock 3 page foldover, edition of 200
Recorded in Brooklyn, New York, on November 6th, 2009. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

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Ben Owen works with sound using various approaches including improvisation, recording, listening, and composition. His instruments are simple electronics - played, mixed, re-patched in their own trajectory of small sound, broken and accidental. Over the past few years he has been interested in presenting works, performing and recording in outdoor spaces. His focus is in the sustained, immersive, minimal soundscapes that interact within a defined space as well as an outside environment.

-Ben Owen 7/1/2025

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Track Listing:

1. Part 1 34:16

2. Part 2 26:32

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