Ben Henderson

Ben Peter Henderson, born July 30 1971 in Wells, is an English rock musician, scriptwriter, songwriter, record producer, and film producer. A musician since his childhood, Henderson was raised in Clevedon, the youngest of four children.Henderson has now established a reputation for himself as an Music Technology expert, writer and sound engineer for environmental issues. Some of his album covers are illustrated with his own paintings and drawings.

Early life

At age 19, Henderson moved to London to work as a saxophonist for psychedelic rock/funk band Dr. Sky. After a brief period as a DJ in Tenerife, Henderson played sax and congas during the Cactus Park raves in 1991. Upon his return to the United Kingdom, Henderson played with several bands, and was reunited with the bass player Alex Caird, who had been a member of Dr. Sky. Caird invited Henderson to join the band Bôa, who, at the time were a funk band.

Bôa

Ben Henderson joined, toured and recorded with the internationally successful band Bôa. His mainstream success began after the award winning theme tune for the anime series Serial Experiments Lain. Henderson had given up saxophone, and was writing for Bôa almost exclusively on guitar. Henderson studied sound engineering and Music Technology at The Institute of Music and Technology, the centre for City and Guilds Music Technology, Sound Engineering and Multimedia, where he now occasionally gives lectures on the subject of Music Technology. Henderson is also the sound engineer at the annual Environmental Fair in Carshalton Park in the UK.

Planet of Tunes

Ben Henderson writes articles and software patches and programs for music and multimedia creators, which are available for free download on the acclaimed Planet of Tunes website.

Moth

After acquiring qualifications in music technology and sound engineering from The Institute of Music and Technology, Henderson left Bôa. Together with singer songwriter Tina Delgado, Henderson set up the "Black Valve" recording studio and formed the UK band Moth, and recorded and produced Moth's debut album, "Songs for the Lost". Ben married Tina Henderson in 1996 at Staneway Chapel, in Ewell village, UK. He has one daughter, Jasmine.

Film work

Henderson has worked on music videos that have been broadcast in Japan and the USA, and on internet video sharing websites. These include "Twilight" by Boa, broadcast by MTV.

Henderson has worked on theme tunes for Japanese anime Serial Experiments Lain and the orchestral theme music and incidental score for the superhero film, The Divider.

Henderson additionally co-scripted The Divider, collaborating with film producer and director Jim Rogers.He has since worked on film scripts of his own, and other collaborations for Channel Four.

In the summer of 2006, Ben and his family created the "Cubinoid" channel on Youtube mainly starring Frooper and Skimo, two finger puppet characters. The Henderson family film Frooper and Skimo episodes using a webcam, and have achieved the top 22nd most subscribed musician's channel on Youtube.

Matt Hawes, creator of The Happy Show featured the first episode of Frooper and Skimo on public access tv. MTV Flux expressed an interest in the Frooper and Skimo videos shortly after the site was launched.

In January 2007, the music video for Moth's "Close the Door" won the Derrick Seagrave Trophy for Best Animation at the Surrey Film Festival.

Following this, Close the door won a further award at The IAC British International Amateur Film Competition 2007. [1]

Discography

Artist: Boa (Polystar Releases)
*"Duvet" Japan, South East Asia
*"Tall Snake E.P." Japan, South East Asia
*"The Race of a Thousand Camels" Japan, South East Asia

Artist: Boa (Pioneer LDC Release)
*"Twilight" United States of America

Artist: Moth (Bump and Thumper Releases)
*"Songs for the Lost" United Kingdom
*"All Weathers" United Kingdom
*"Castaway" United Kingdom
*"Online" United Kingdom
*"Invitation" United Kingdom
*"Prison" United Kingdom
*"Orphan" United Kingdom
*"Driftwood" United Kingdom
*"Crown" United Kingdom
*"New Money" United Kingdom
*"Circus" United Kingdom
*"Clouded" United Kingdom
*"Signatures in Stone" United Kingdom
*"Approval" United Kingdom
*"Ashes and Pearls" United Kingdom
*"Spacehopper" United Kingdom

*"Back from the Dead" United Kingdom
*"Crushing the Poppies" United Kingdom
*"Just a whisper away" United Kingdom
*"Scream" United Kingdom
*"Veil" United Kingdom
*"Black on Top" United Kingdom
*"Over Green Plains" United Kingdom
*"Too Close to the Edge" United Kingdom
*"Chasing the Breeze" United Kingdom
*"Tribute" United Kingdom
*"Kiss of Life" United Kingdom
*"In Black and White" United Kingdom
*"No, Tomorrow" United Kingdom
*"Feature" United Kingdom
*"Counting the days" United Kingdom
*"What is love?" United Kingdom

Artist: Slyders
*"Slyde it in" United Kingdom

Artist: World Nuclear Association
*"" Worldwide [2]

Filmscores:
*"Duvet" Japan, South East Asia (Lain - Serial Experiments Theme tune)
*"The Divider" United Kingdom

References

[1] IAC The Film and Video Institute BIAFF 2007 Awards Results page Film title: Close The Door Category: Animation http://www.fvi.org.uk/central/biaff2007/BIAFF2007_bronze_blue.html

[2] Nuclear English: Language Skills for a Globalizing Industry Author:Serge Gorlin ISBN 0-9550784-0-7http://online-shop.world-nuclear.org/nuclear-english-language-skills-for-a-globalizing-industry-6-p.asp

External links

* [http://www.boaweb.co.uk/ Boa]
* [http://www.bumpandthumper.com/ Bump and Thumper]
* [http://www.thedivider.com/ The Divider]
* [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/connected.html/ Lain Fansite (requires Internet Explorer)]
* [http://www.bumpandthumper.com/moth/ Moth]
* [http://www.myspace.com/cubinoid Ben Henderson's myspace]
* [http://www.planetoftunes.com/ Planet of Tunes]
* [http://www.world-nuclear.org/ The World Nuclear Association]
* [http://www.veoh.com/search.html?numResults=20&action=search&type=&fromSearchForm=fromSearchForm&search=Frooper+Skimo/ Frooper and Skimo on Veoh]
* [http://tvlinksdb.com/tvshows/frooper-and-skimo.php/ Frooper and Skimo on tvlinks]