Draft:Ben Greenberg (musician)

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This page is about the musician. For the American football player, see Ben Greenberg.

Ben Greenberg
Greenberg c. 2017
Background information
Born	February 22, 1985
Origin	Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Genres	Metal, hardcore, punk, jazz, rock, indie rock, classical, new music, electronic, industrial
Occupation(s)	Record producer, audio engineer, musician, songwriter, composer
Instrument(s)	Guitar, bass, drums, keys
Years active	1997–present
Labels	Sacred Bones, Alter, NNA Tapes, Northern Spy, Matador, Three One G, The Social Registry, Wharf Cat Records, Husky Pants, Wäntage USA, JKSHK

Ben Greenberg is an American record producer, audio engineer, guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is known as a member of Uniform and for his solo project, Hubble, and formerly of The Men, Zs, and Pygmy Shrews. With Uniform, Greenberg has performed and toured alongside many household names in metal and hardcore, including Boris, Converge, Napalm Death, Mayhem, Deafheaven, and Drab Majesty. Greenberg has also performed for legendary composers Terry Riley and Glenn Branca.

Greenberg is a prolific producer and engineer, having produced and mixed many records from the catalogs of Sacred Bones, Dais, Captured Tracks, Flying Nun, and Toxic State, as well as Fire Records, 4AD, Anti-, Sub Pop, Loma Vista, Relapse, Matador, DFA, Run For Cover, Iron Lung, Luaka Bop, Profound Lore, Amphetamine Reptile, Three One G, and Load Records. In the studio, he has worked with musical acts including Danny Elfman, Depeche Mode, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, Junglepussy, Show Me The Body, METZ, Portrayal of Guilt, Black Marble, Drew McDowall, VR Sex, Beach Fossils, Soft Kill, Algiers, Ceremony, Bing & Ruth, Bad Breeding, CHRISTEENE, Deradoorian, The Holydrug Couple, Pharmakon, and Institute.

Since the mid-2010s, Greenberg has mixed film scores including Mandy, It Comes At Night, Problemista, Blow The Man Down, and Fair Play.

In 2020, Greenberg co-founded the recording studio Circular Ruin with Randall Dunn and Arjan Miranda.

Early life and education

Greenberg was born in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, and raised in Riverdale, in the Bronx. In 2007, he graduated from the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music at The New School, where he studied composition, orchestration and improvisation.

Career

Music

Greenberg started playing venues around the Lower East Side of Manhattan as a teenager, performing in countless bands, culminating as Pygmy Shrews in his early 20s. While attending The New School, Greenberg joined Little Women and the New Music band Zs.

Greenberg premiered his solo project Hubble in 2010 with a video he soundtracked for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope images. As Hubble, Greenberg has released records on Northern Spy and NNA tapes, and performed at venues including Pioneer Works and ISSUE Project Room.

Upon joining The Men as their bassist in 2012, Greenberg was described by Ben Ratliff in The New York Times as “a good musician [...] and boss of his own one-man guitar project, Hubble.” He wrote, “If you feel a lack of some binding agent in the Men on their record, you might have felt that [Greenberg’s] exactly what they need: a rug to tie the room together.” The Men toured internationally and released several records to critical acclaim.

In 2013, Greenberg co-founded the industrial metal band Uniform with vocalist Michael Berdan. They have released a number of critically acclaimed albums on Sacred Bones Records including several collaborative albums with The Body, and Boris. They have remixed many other artists including John Carpenter. In 2017 their song ‘Habit’ was featured in an episode of David Lynch’s beloved series Twin Peaks: The Return. Uniform has toured worldwide with the likes of Converge, Boris, Deafheaven, Drab Majesty, The Body, and Noothgrush.

In 2014 and 2015, Greenberg played guitar in Music Blues, a project helmed by the experimental rock band Harvey Milk’s bassist Stephen Tanner. Also in 2015, Amen Dunes’ Cowboy Worship EP was released on Sacred Bones, featuring guitar by Greenberg on a cover of Tim Buckley’s “Song To The Siren”.

In 2016, Red Bull Music Academy Festival in New York honored avant-garde composer Glenn Branca with a performance of Branca’s 8th, 10th, and 12th Symphonies at Manhattan’s Masonic Hall. Vice Magazine named Greenberg as part of the “all-star cast of guitarists” to play.

In December 2019, Greenberg performed alongside Terry Riley at Pioneer Works’ celebration of the minimalist composer’s 85th year.

Film and Television

Composer Brian McOmber’s original soundtrack for the A24 2015 film Krisha marked Greenberg’s foray into mix engineering for film and television. Greenberg became the composer’s primary mix engineer, and proceeded to mix McOmber’s scores for It Comes At Night (A24), Kingdom of Silence (Showtime), 16 Shots (Showtime), Little Woods (Neon), Blow The Man Down (Amazon), and Mickey and The Bear (Utopia).

In 2017, Greenberg was the mix assistant to Randall Dunn’s production of the score for Panos Cosmatos’ horror film Mandy, composed by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. The score won numerous awards and nominations, including the Austin Film Critics Association’s 2019 Best Score Award, the Seattle Film Critics Society 2018 Best Original Score Award, and the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2019 Best Score Award.

In 2022, Greenberg and Dunn co-mixed the score for Julio Torres’ comedy film Problemista, produced by Emma Stone and distributed by A24.

Greenberg mixed the score by Ella Van Der Woude for Luis De Filippius’ 2022 film Something You Said Last Night, and composed an original song for one scene. He also mixed the score for the theatrical release of 32 Sounds, an immersive sound documentary by director Sam Green and scored by JD Samson of Le Tigre.

Greenberg mixed Brian McOmber’s score to Chloe Domont’s Fair Play, an erotic thriller film and her feature directorial debut, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix for $20 million in 2023.

Filmography

• Krisha (A24, 2015) - e
• It Comes At Night (A24, 2017) - p/e/additional music
• Mandy, 2018 (Spectrevision, 2018) - mix assistant
• Little Woods (Neon, 2018) - e
• Mickey and The Bear (Utopia, 2019) - e
• 16 Shots, (Showtime, 2019) - e/bass guitar
• Blow The Man Down (Amazon, 2019) - e
• Kingdom Of Silence (Showtime, 2020) - e
• Mãos de Prat (Hands of Silver) (2020) - e
• Problemista (A24, 2022) - e
• Something You Said Last Night (Elevation Pictures, 2022) - e/composer
• 32 Sounds (2022) - e
• Fair Play (Netflix, 2023) - e

Production Credits

• Boris & Uniform - Bright New Disease (2023 Sacred Bones Records) p/e/m
• Ron Morelli - Heart Stopper (2023 L.I.E.S.) p/e/m
• Portrayal of Guilt - Devil Music (2023 Run For Cover) p/e/m
• Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Wicca Phase Springs Eternal (2023 Run For Cover) p/e/m
• Amber Arcades - Barefoot on Diamond Road (2023 Fire Records) p/e/m
• Christeene - Midnite Fukk Train (Spaceflight Records 2022) e/m
• L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation - W.A.R. in the Digital Realm (2022 Toxic State Records) e/m
• Bad Breeding - Human Capital (One Little Independent 2022) p/e/m
• Junglepussy - JP5000 (2022) e/m
• VR Sex - Rough Dimension (Dais 2022) p/e/m
• Portrayal of Guilt - Christfucker (2021) p/e/m
• Show Me the Body - Survive (Loma Vista 2021) e
• Danny Elfman - Big Mess (Anti- 2021) m
• Danny Elfman - 'Happy' (Anti- 2020) m
• Metz - Atlas Vending (Sub Pop 2020) p
• Drew McDowall - Agalma (Dais 2020) p/e/m
• Uniform - Shame (Sacred Bones 2020) p/e
• Bing & Ruth - Species (4AD 2020) p/e
• Algiers - There Is No Year (Matador 2020) p/e
• Black Marble - Bigger than Life (Sacred Bones 2019) m
• Ceremony - In the Spirit World Now (Relapse 2019) m
• Pharmakon - Devour (Sacred Bones 2019) p/e/m
• Institute - Readjusting the Locks (Sacred Bones 2019) p/e/m
• Uniform & The Body - Everything that Dies Someday Comes Back (Sacred Bones 2019) p/e/m
• Algiers - Can The Sub Bass Speak? (Matador Records 2019) p/e/m
• Haram - Where Were You On 9/11? (Toxic State 2019) p/e/m
• Uniform - The Long Walk (Sacred Bones Records 2018) p/e/m
• Uniform & The Body - Mental Wounds Not Healing (Sacred Bones Records 2018) p/e/m
• Hank Wood And The Hammerheads - Hank Wood And The Hammerheads (Toxic State 2018) p/e/m
• Bing & Ruth - No Home Of The Mind (4AD 2017) e
• Brian McOmber - It Comes At Night OST (Milan Entertainment Inc 2017) m
• Depeche Mode - Where’s The Revolution? (Algiers Remix) (Columbia, Mute 2017) e/m
• Deradoorian - Eternal Recurrence EP (Anticon 2017) p/e/m
• Algiers - The Underside Of Power (Matador Records 2017) e
• Algiers - Walk Like A Panther (Uniform Remix) (Matador Records 2017) p/e/m
• Pharmakon - Contact (Sacred Bones Records 2017) p/e/m
• Uniform - Wake In Fright (Sacred Bones Records 2017) p/e/m
• Institute - Subordination (Sacred Bones Records 2017) p/e/m
• Uniform - Ghosthouse (Sacred Bones Records 2016) p/e/m
• Destruction Unit - Negative Feedback Resistor (Sacred Bones Records 2015) m
• The Holydrug Couple - Moonlust (Sacred Bones Records 2015) m
• Institute - Catharsis (Sacred Bones Records 2015) p/e/m
• Uniform - Perfect World (12XU/Alter 2015) p/e/m
• The Men - Tomorrow’s Hits (Sacred Bones Records 2014) p/e/m
• Beach Fossils - Clash The Truth (Captured Tracks 2013) p/e/m
• The Men - New Moon (Sacred Bones Records 2013) p/e/m
• The Men - Campfire Songs (Sacred Bones Reords 2013) p/e/m
• The Men - Electric (Sacred Bones Records 2013) p/e/m
• Destruction Unit - Deep Trip (Sacred Bones Records 2013) p/e/m
• Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang - En Yay Sah (Luaka Bop 2012) p/e/m
• The Men - Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones Records 2012) p/e/m
• Pop. 1280 - The Horror (Sacred Bones Records 2012) p/e/m
• The Men - Singles Going Home Alone #3 (Matador 2012) m
• The Men - Leave Home (Sacred Bones Records 2011) p/e/m
• Pop. 1280 - The Grid (Sacred Bones Records 2010) p/e/m
• Laurel Halo - King Felix (Hippos In Tanks 2010) e/m
• Zs - New Slaves (The Social Registry 2010) p/e/m
• Zs - The Hard EP (Three One G 2008) p/e/m

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