Ben Miller music  
       

 

Soundtrack & Sound Design Services

SAMPLES:     "Storm at Sea"(for "Trip" film by Sascha Just, 2010)     Once in a Field (for NYC poet Carol Novack 2008)     Where Are You, Now? (theme for Cable TV "Eco Sense" 2007)     Dream Sequence for "Nad & Stacey" (Video 2007)    demo for video game (2004)     submission for Nature video (2002)     Theme for "Revision" (student film 1997)     NYC-AM excerpt (for Laurie Eisenhowere Dance Co., 1993)     Mary's Answer excerpt (for People Dancing, 1992)

Past Projects

NYC, NY 2010

Sound Track for NYC filmmaker Sascha Just on her film TRIP. This will be premiered July 5th in NYC.

NYC, NY 2007-08

Sound Design for NYC Poet Carol Novak for her narrative CDs "Inventions 1" and "Inventions 2"

on the poem "Babies", "A very cool, for lack of a better word, sound effect background of every reverberation imagined within the context of her word tapestry only adds to this masterpiece of a woman's lament. This is almost a three-ring circus of breasts, moonshine, and babies swishing around in the wash." Cicily Janus, Eclectica Magazine Oct/Nov 2007

Ann Arbor, MI 2007

Composed for MI Videographer Laurence Miller for his experimental video NAD & STACEY.

NYC, NY 2004

Composed for NY Videographer and multimedia artist Orin Buck for his experimental video FROM BLACK.

Chicago, IL 2001-2002

Composed for Chicago Filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeed Vafa for her film FIVE DIFFICULT PIECES and collaborated on other creative projects.

Composer for Dance


Ann Arbor, MI 1992-1993

Composed scores for Whitley Setrakian & People Dancing and Laurie Eisenhower Dance Co.

Guest Instructor


Megapolis Festival: Baltimore, MD 2010

Workshops on 21st Century Composition and Graphic Score Improvisation.

Columbia College Chicago: Chicago, IL 1992/94/97

20th Century Music Seminar: Composition, Improvisation and Collaboration.

Creative Music Lessons

Providing lessons at home in Jersey City

Guitar, Bass, Saxophone, Beginning Piano, Beginning Drums, Songwriting, Composition, Improvisation @ $30/hr

includes: Scale Patterns, Riff Techniques, Chord Structure and Progressions, Transcribing, Basic Theory, 12-tone Theory, Intervallic Thoery, Improvisation from far-right to far-left, Ear Training, Notation and more.

Attended classes at Boston Contemporary School of Music and Columbia College Chicago.

Musician for Hire

Available to enhance your recording sessions

for the New York Metro area and beyond.
Guitar, Bass, Saxophone, Vocal tracks @ $30/hour

Engineer/Producer

At Home Recording Studio in Jersey City

Digital multi-track / Analog 1/2" 8-track. Recording, Mixing, Mastering @ $20 hr. Two rooms with wooden floors. No drumkits.

Engineered/Produced the following releases:

- Prehensile Monkey-Tailed Skink/Midnight Dynamite on Bulb 1993

- Couch/Couch on Bulb 1993

- M3/M3 on New Alliance 1994


Producer Fee $125 per day.

Mastered the following releases:

- Third Border/Sun of Water, Sea of Light on Radial 2006

Education

Columbia College Chicago Chicago, IL BFA 2002

Double Major in Music Composition and English

Thomas Jefferson College, MI 1974-75

concentration in Music Composition

School of Contemporary Music, Boston, MA 1973-74

cocentration in improvisation and theory

Contact Ben Miller at info@benmiller.info

 

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