Profiles
Ben Gwilliam (b 1980) is a sound artist and improvising musician currently based in the UK. He describes his practice as drawing attention to those sounds between things, be it objects, spaces or recordings. It is these sounds and their contexts that reveal visual and musical processes of listening and looking.
It is from this curiosity about sound-making/recording/finding and how abstract/descriptive that sounds can be, that he makes parallels and similarities unpicking the relationship between those uncovered sounds and moments of primary experience.
Since 2003, his music has been developing an improvisational relationship with open reel magnetic tape, inherent magnetics and prepared sound recordings, exploring decay, silence and harmonics in solo and collaborative arrangements.