Collaborative gallery performance & video poems
Guest artist and speaker on album composition & production
Album cover by Brian Rogers
Muck of Morale LP
recorded 2019-2021
released Earth Libraries 2023
Photo by Cassy Kolesar
photo by Mitchell Multimedia thanks to Music Columbus
Limbic Psalms LP recorded 2021-2023.
Released Very Much Recordings 2024.
Heart of the Want to Believer and By Turning My Head videos by Nick Weckman. String video by Ben Turner. Album cover by Brian Rogers.
photo by Eric Kogge
Grounds EP by Confusions
recorded 2016-2018
re-released Earth Libraries 2021
Photo by Mitchell Multimedia thanks to Music Columbus
Photo by Cassy Kolesar
Photo by Cassy Kolesar
The Fossil Record (Rachel Scott)
Together We're a Modern Person album released May 31, 2024
Band photo Ashley Mercer. Live photo Suki Wazabae All digital designs and album inserts by Ben Turner.
Detroit 8-track
Improvised, recorded, mixed in a weekend 2024/01
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I've Seen single cover by Sara Butcher
Invitations, Push Back, Fog in the Field single covers by Brian Rogers. Dream Web and Voice, Drums, Spine covers by Ben Turner
Hilltop Mindfulness Reset
Created by Victoria Frye of Black Lotus Sanctuary as part of the Great Columbus Arts Council's Neighborhood Arts initiative.
Photos of facilitators by Isaac Gomez.
Digital designs by Ben Turner as part of
audio releases related to this project.
The Fuse Factory
Group photos by Allison Coleman
photo by LRV
Collaborations of sound artist
Ben Turner/Confusions
(experimental pop
and ambient music).
upcoming events
Sat dec 14
confusions live at 400 w rich st
franklintonartsdistrict
3-4pm
sun dec 15
screening of "string" music video at wild goose creative
wildartcbuscinema
1pm
I'm an experimental producer of ambient and pop music, songwriter, drummer, music instructor, and licensed and board-certified music therapist.
I work on a variety of collaborative projects, performances, and sessions. Thanks for checking out my site.
I think human beings are far more creative than they often express and I like to help people set up new parameters to spark ideas.
To me, music is about the fluid expression of emotion. The okay-ness of emotion. The feeling of playing an instrument, singing a song, wondering about a lyric’s meaning, or finding a sound that is just a bit wonky and everything you didn't know the song needed.
Past Performances
2013/10/01 - Third Annual Radio Day Fest - College of Wooster
2016/07/15 - Ben Turner - Happy Dog East in Cleveland
2017/10 - Kevin Cardoso & Ben Turner: Intro to Sampling and Recording Through Community-based Improvisation
2019/Summer - Facilitated Association of Ohio Music Therapist's Continuing Music Therapy Education session on musical artifacts -Kevin Cardoso, Mike Witter, Ben Turner.
2019/08/17 - Confusions - Isaac's Home
2019/10/04 - Confusions - Ruby Tuesday Columbus
2019/10/22 - Confusions - Cafe Bourbon St. Columbus
2019/11/22 - Confusions - Victory's Columbus
2019/12/16 - Confusions - Gaswerks Columbus
2019/12/04 - Ben Turner co-facilitated The Science of Sound: Intro to Recording and Sampling with Kevin Cardoso
2019/12/20 - Confusions - Cafe Bourbon St.
2020/02/04 - Confusions - Cafe Bourbon St.
2020/02/12 - Kevin Cardoso & Ben Turner - Community-based Sound Collaboration: Creating Musical Artifacts
2020/02/15 - Confusions - Music Collective of Ohio State University
2020/02/28 - Confusions - Studio 45 / Relax It's Just Coffee
2020/03/06 - Confusions - The Corner Columbus
2021/06/12 - Confusions - Twitch live stream (first show in collaboration with Noah Fisher)
2021/07/31 - Confusions - Bazaaritual July Gallery show - Global Gallery Columbus
2021/07/23 - Confusions - Kafe Kerouac Columbus
2021/08/13 - Confusions - Psychedelic Music Festival - Columbus
2021/08/26 - Confusions - Double Happiness
2021/09/11 - Confusions - 934 (Gallery) Festival
2021/10/03 - Confusions - Saturn - Birmingham - Earth Libraries Book Fair showcase
2021/10/22 - Confusions - Half Baked
2021/10/26 - Confusions - Big Room Bar Columbus
2021/11/11 - Confusions - Spacebar
2021/12/03 - Confusions - The Fuse Factory - Frequency Friday
2022/03/11 - Confusions - Half Baked
2022/04/22 - Confusions - Big Room Bar
2022/05/13 - Confusions - Newsroom After Hours - Mansfield
2022/05/27 - Confusions - Global Gallery
2022/06/17 - Confusions with Sweet Teeth - Spacebar
2022/06/22 - Confusions - Cafe Bourbon St.
2022/09/17 - Confusions - Psychedelic Music Festival
2022/10/23 - Confusions with Sweet Teeth and Caleb Miller - Clinton-Como Park
2022/11/25 - Confusions with Xioma, Sweet Teeth, Christina Ward - Dirty Dungarees
2023/02/04 - Confusions with Pincer, Debris, Nyctoalopia - Dirty Dungarees
2023/03/04 - Confusions with Teratogen - Double Happiness
2023/03/25 - Miller and Turner - 58 Steps
2023/04/19 - Confusions with Summer Like the Season and Sweeth Teeth - Spacebar
2023/05/14 - Confusions (Noah Fisher, Eric Stratton, Ben Turner)
performed a music-assisted, experimental lecture on the process of creating Muck of Morale.
This event took place at Pizutti collection of the Columbus of Museum of Art with Columbus Printed Arts Center
2023/06/21 - Confusions (Miller, Fisher, Stratton, Turner) Victory's
2023/06/24 - Confusions - Gravity Mural Festival
2023/07/26 - Confusions with Future Crib and The Medium - Rumba Cafe Columbus
2023/07/29 - MidOhio Food Collective Fundraiser - Dirty Dungarees - Hosted by Evan Carr
2023/07/30 - Victory Frye and Ben Turner present Hilltop Mindfulness Reset session 1 - Brewdog
2023/08/20 - Victory Frye and Ben Turner present Hilltop Mindfulness Reset session 2 - Community Center
2023/09/10 - Victory Frye and Ben Turner present Hilltop Mindfulness Reset session 2 - Westgate Park
2023/10/01 - Confusions with Scott Yoder and Oft Dreamy - Happy Dog Cleveland
2023/10/14 - Better Together Music Incubator Showcase (BT unable to attend this show and they played recordings of catalog instead)
2023/11/16 - Confusions - Cafe Bourbon St.
2024/01/25 - Jazz Noise Collective Orchestra
2024/02/11 - The Fossil Record, Mutual Benefit, Confusions - Dirty Dungarees
2024/04/13 - Spacebar
2024/05/22 - Confusions - Dirty Dungarees
2024/06/24 - Confusions - Pugfest - Film and Music Festival - Detroit
2024/07/20 - The Fossil Record with Mukiss, Fellow Hollow, Confusions - Cafe Bourbon St.
2024/06 - Confusions with Nick Weckman - OPC
2024/08/28 - Confusions with Fiona Moonchild and Dos Grandiose at Tender Mercy - Dayton
2024/09/07 - Scrawl Arts Fest (thanks Julie!)
2024/09/21 - Lina Ramona Vitkauskas and Ben Turner live at Gagné Contemporary - Toronto
2024/10/04 - Confusions - Cafe Bourbon St.
2024/10/22 - Confusions with New Here - Dirty Dungarees
2024/12/14 - Franklinton Arts District
2024/12/15 - String Music Video Screening - Columbus Cinema & Music Columbus - Wild Goose Creative