Benny Turner

Benny Turner’s lessons are informed by student’s interests, goals, their background in music therapy, and that people are far more creative than we are often taught to consider. Benny strives to make lessons a fun place to share knowledge, musical activities, and practice strategies. To them, creativity and musical skill aren’t about ideas like talent, rankings, or ratings. It’s about having the chance to pay attention to what you like about music, finding what works for your routine, and patience.

Benny has also taken this approach to their experimental pop & ambient music project called Confusions. They started tracking music for this project in 2015, and released their first album Grounds with independent record label Earth Libraries in 2021. In 2023, they released their second LP with E.L., exploring themes of grief called Muck of Morale. In 2024, they released Limbic Psalms, a record about feelings and experimental film-music techniques, with Columbus label Very Much Recordings. They drummed on The Fossil Record’s 2024 debut album, and produced the closing track Co-Machine. They self-released Detroit 8-track, a mostly improvised studio band project, as well as solo electro-pop singles.

Collaboration is a major theme on their album Vocoder Chorus (5/30/2025). It has been described as cohesive music for vocoder with a warmer direction in textures.

More information about their music, collaborations, and performances can be found at confusions.bandcamp.com and benturneraudio.com.