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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
© 2003 Ben Miller
