mnartists.org: Scott Miller

Shape Shifting

Scott Miller — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:09:37 GMT

Shape Shifting: Shades of Transformation was commissioned by Zeitgeist, underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation and made possible with support from the Zeitgeist Commissioning Collective. It is a concert length work for the ensemble Zeitgeist, real-time electronics, spoken-word performance, and video, created in collaboration with Zeitgeist and Philippe Costaglioli. The CD is available on the Innova label. Includes the works: Apnèe, Mirror Inside, St. Victoire, Desire Also Has Its Own Geography, Dressing Up, Jardins Mécaniques, Digging Space, Les Cançóns de la Sang, New Snow.

Last Words?

Scott Miller — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:51:16 GMT

Last Words? is a setting of the poem by the same title written by Philippe Costaglioli. It has also been made part of a video created by Jesse Zwack.

audio: Last Words?

Landscape

Scott Miller — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:48:30 GMT

Landscape is for Wind Ensemble and Computer Generated CD. This is the premier recording, from the performance on 22 April 2001, St. Mary's Cathedral, St. Cloud, MN, by the St. Cloud State University Wind Ensemble, Richard K. Hansen conducting. Made possible in part through support from the SCSU Scholarly and Creative Activity Reassign Time Grant.

audio: Landscape

Low Hangs the Moon

Scott Miller — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:45:07 GMT

Low Hangs the Moon is for Soprano, Piano, and Computer Generated CD. This recording is of the premier, recorded 02 April 2001, St. Cloud, MN USA. Hillary Vermillion, soprano; Thomas Allen, piano. Low Hangs the Moon is a setting of a portion of text from Walt Whitman's Sea-drift: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. In this poem, Whitman transcribes the song of a solitary bird nesting by the sea whose mate did not return to the nest one day, apparently having met with tragedy. Pianist and SCSU professor Thomas Allen commissioned Low Hangs the Moon, with support from the St. Cloud State University Foundation. It is dedicated to the memory of Ruth Gant. The text set follows: O madly the sea pushes upon the land,?With love, with love Low hangs the moon, it rose late,?It is lagging O I think it is heavy with love, with love. Soothe! soothe! soothe!?Close on its wave soothes the wave behind,?And again another behind embracing and lapping, every one close,?But my love soothes not me, not me. O rising stars!?Perhaps the one I want so much will rise, will rise with some of you. Low-hanging moon!?What is that dusky spot in your brown yellow??O it is the shape, the shape of my mate!?O moon do not keep her from me any longer. O madly the sea pushes upon the land,?With love, with love.

audio: Low Hangs the Moon

Autumn Etude

Scott Miller — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:39:58 GMT

Autumn Etude is a study for a larger project, Eyes and Ears, an installation/interactive CD-ROM created in collaboration with visual artist William Gorcica. The focus of both Autumn Etude and Eyes and Ears is how one defines a space physically and electronically. The installation/interactive CD-ROM also examines the possibilities of audience interactivity in the creation of a sound piece (as opposed to performer interactivity). In these works, space is sonically defined by the intersection, overlapping and juxtaposition of streams of sound from different environments. These streams are generated from each environment by the computer manipulation of a sample or samples recorded from each identified environment.

audio: Autumn Etude

Three Gestures

Scott Miller — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:48:56 GMT

Three Gestures was written for Trio Montecino (David Shea, clarinet; Pablo Mahave-Veglia, cello; Paulina Zmora, piano). The first two movements were premiered by the ensemble in October 2006 during their Midwest tour. This recording is from their performance in St. Paul at Studio Z of the first two movements, I First Dance? and II Spinning the Carousel. The movements are performed without pause.

audio: Three Gestures

Fun House

Scott Miller — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:14:18 GMT

Fun House, composed for and in collaboration with Bass Clarinetist Pat O'Keefe, is for Bass Clarinet and real-time interactive electronics (Kyma/Capybara). Fun House is designed around an evolving series of live processing patches (Rooms) that produce sound objects which are structurally coupled to the sonic environment; changes in the sonic environment as measured by Kyma produce data that manipulates the timbral and spatial properties of the sound objects. The sound objects are treated as analogous to multi-dimensional objects in a sculptural mobile and are programmed to seek a balance within the sonic environment created by the performance space, their own sound, that of the Bass Clarinetist and the audience. As the performer navigates the space(s) of Fun House by contributing to the sonic environment and by physically moving within it, he constructs the structure of the work in collaboration with the environment itself. This is a recording of a performance at ACF's June 2006 Sound Check concert at the Southern Theater, Mpls., MN, featuring bass clarinetist Pat O'Keefe.

audio: Fun House

Chimera No. 2

Scott Miller — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:02:50 GMT

Chimera No. 2 was written for Iva Kramperová for premier at the Mladé Pódium Festival, Pardubice, Czech Republic 12 September 2006, the second of a series of works for solo instrument and fixed media electroacoustic sound. The first, Chimera, was written in 2000 for violist Coca Bochonko. This recording is of the premier performance by Iva Kramperová at the Mladé Pódium Festival in 2006. There are two definitions of chimera that apply to this composition. The first definition of chimera is a fantastic or illusory dream, suggesting the surreal. The second is of a hybrid organism, created by mixing genetically different tissues or animal parts.

audio: Chimera No. 2

Chimera No. 2.1

Scott Miller — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:53:49 GMT

Chimera No. 2.1 is a surround sound remix of Chimera No. 2, featuring the performance of the work by violinist Marion Judish. It was premiered at the SEAMUS 2007 National Conference in Ames, Iowa. Chimera No. 2 was written for Iva Kramperová for premier at the Mladé Pódium Festival, Pardubice, Czech Republic 12 September 2006, the second of a series of works for solo instrument and fixed media electroacoustic sound. The first, Chimera, was written in 2000 for violist Coca Bochonko. There are two definitions of chimera that apply to this composition. The first definition of chimera is a fantastic or illusory dream, suggesting the surreal. The second is of a hybrid organism, created by mixing genetically different tissues or animal parts.

audio: Chimera No. 2.1

Dies Sanctificatus

Scott Miller — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:29:42 GMT

"Dies Sanctificatus" is for choir (SSAATTBB) and fixed media electronic sound (CD). This recording is by the SCSU Concert Choir, conducted by Jeff Douma.

audio: Dies Sanctificatus

Tempest (curated by AmericanComposersForum)

Scott Miller — Thu, 05 Dec 2002 06:00:00 GMT

Tempest is a collaborative work by composer Scott L. Miller, poet/performer Philippe Costaglioli, and video artist Ron Gregg. It can be performed live as well as presented or broadcast as a video. This performance includes presentation of the text in English, French, and Catalan, reflecting the original conception of the poetry. Scott L. Miller is a Fiscal Year 2001 recipient of a Fellowship grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature. In addition, this activity is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Supported in part by the American Composers Forum through the 2001 McKnight Composer Fellowship Program. The poem, Tempest, is published by Les Editions L'arriï¿½re - Pays, France.