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Scott L. Miller (composer)

Scott L. Miller (b. 1966) is an American composer best known for his electroacoustic chamber music and ecosystemic performance pieces. His music is characterized by collaborative approaches to composition and the use of electronics, exploring performer/computer improvisation and re-imagining ancient compositional processes through the lens of 21st century technology. Inspired by the inner-workings of sound and the microscopic in the natural and mechanical worlds, his music is the product of hands-on experimentation and collaboration with musicians and performers from across the spectrum of styles. His recent work experiments with VR applications in live concerts, first realized in his composition Raba, created for Tallinn-based Ensemble U:.

Miller’s ecosystemic works model the behavior of objects from the natural world in electronic sound, creating interactive sonic ecosystems. Ecosystemic pieces are the result of autonomous sounds competing with each other for sonic space. Individual sounds tend to find a balance, which can be upset by changes to the sonic landscape, such as the introduction of new sounds. Because of this, sonic ecosystems are intimately tied to the space they are presented in. With or without humans, repeat performances produce unique results each time—sometimes subtle, sometimes drastic—while maintaining a recognizable identity. Recordings of his music are available on New Focus Recordings, Innova, and other labels, many featuring his long-time collaborators, the new music ensemble Zeitgeist (and whose albums he produces). His music is published by the American Composers Alliance, Tetractys, and Jeanné. Raba (NFR198) is his most recent album, a collection of audio-visual music drawn from collaborations with six film and video artists.

Miller is a Professor of Music at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, where he teaches composition, electroacoustic music and theory. He is Past-President (2014—18) of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS) and presently Director of SEAMUS Records. He holds degrees from The University of Minnesota, The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and the State University of New York at Oneonta, and studied composition at the Czech-American Summer Music Institute and the Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis.

Miller has been named a McKnight Composer Fellow three times (2001, 2013, 2018), a Fulbright Scholar (2014—15), and his work has been recognized by numerous state, national, and international arts organizations. He has been the featured artist at several festivals, including the Chicago Electro-Acoustic Music Festival (April 2019), the Lipa Festival (2017), and the Estonian Academy of Music’s Autumn Festival, Sügisfest 2016.

COMPOSITIONS

Katabasis (2018) Sonic Augmented Reality (SonAR) Study I: St. Cloud State University (2018) This Strange Fine-Tuning of Our Universe II (2018) Raba (VR version for U:) (2017) Hilltop at Montalvo (2017) Admiration (2017) Solstice Orrery (2016) Islands (2016) Meditation (2016) Balancing Act (2015) Accretion (2015) Returning to Unknown Worlds (2015) Rubber Band, Man (2015) Raba (2015) Avec Scott (a.k.a. Whispering Beast X Émilie) (2014) A Lovely Gesture (2014) Electro-organic Ecosystem for Lübeck (2014) Every Problem is a Nail (2014) This Strange Fine-Tuning of Our Universe (2013) Consortia (2013) Contents May Differ (2013) No. 6 (2013) ORCH a (2013) Two Steps Forward (2013) The Frost Performs its Secret Ministry (2013) Proof of Concept (2012) Détente (2012) Anterior/Interior  (2011) Forth and Back  (2011) Orrery for Casa da Música  (2011) Whispering Beast  (2010) Tipping Point (2010) Chimeric Night  (2009) haiku, interrupted (2009) Lovely Little Monster (2009) Nebe Na Zemi (Heaven on Earth) (2008) And 30 More (2008) Pure Pleasure (2008) The Cosmic Engine (2008) Three Gestures (2006) Some Fabric and a Few Pieces of Bone (2006) Chimera No. 2 (2006) Fun House (2006) Engines of... (2005)	 Shape Shifting: Shades of Transformation (2004) Ecce Dominus Reniet (2001) Landscape (2001) Chimera (2000) Autumn Etude (a.k.a. In Memorium Lloyd Ultan) (2000) Dies Sanctificatus (2000) Time is Vicious (if you take it for granted)  (1992)

DISCOGRAPHY (AS COMPOSER/PERFORMER)

Raba, featuring Laura Cocks, Dan Lippel, and Ensemble U:. New Focus Recordings FCR198. Travelogue, featuring Three Free Radicals (Scott Miller and Mart Soo). Improtest IMPR11. bc+1[track_number++] = (laptop) scott_miller + bc; featuring Binary Canary (Kyle Hutchins and Ted Moore). Avid Records 20171. Every Problem is a Nail, recorded on The Electro-Acoustic Piano, Vol. 2, featuring Keith Kirchoff. Thinking Outloud. Pure Pleasure, recorded on EOS, featuring Patti Cudd. Innova 967. Avec Scott, recorded on Avec, featuring Émilie Girard-Charest. Kohlenstoff. Diary of a Left-Handed Sleepwalker, featuring Three Free Radicals (Scott Miller and Mart Soo). Panoramic PAN04. Tipping Point, featuring Zeitgeist and Carrie Henneman Shaw. New Focus Recordings FCR161. Contents May Differ, recorded on Music from SEAMUS vol. 24, featuring Pat O’Keefe. EAAM-2014. Contents May Differ, recorded on Contents May Differ, featuring Pat O’Keefe. Innova 888. Devices & Desires, Carla Rees and Scott Miller. rarescale rr004. Tipping Point, recorded on Music from SEAMUS vol. 20, featuring Zeitgeist. EAAM-2011. And Thirty More, recorded on Here and Now, featuring Zeitgeist. Innova 799. Willful Devices, featuring Pat O’Keefe and Scott Miller. Shape Shifting: Shades of Transformation, recorded on Shape Shifting, Innova 638, featuring Zeitgeist and Felip Costaglioli. Elegy, recorded on Trio Montecino, Eroica JDT3196, featuring David Shea, clarinet; Pablo Mahave-Veglia, violoncello; Paulina Zamora, piano. Time is Vicious (if you take it for granted), recorded on WIZARDS!, CRS 9460, by The Double Reed Ensemble of Iowa.