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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 and 12-tone Theory, Improvisation from far-right to far-left, Ear Training, Notation and more.
Attended classes at Boston Contemporary School of Music and Columbia College Chicago. I currently teach at The School of Rock.
Musician for Hire
Available to enhance your recording sessions
for the New York Metro area and beyond.
Guitar, Bass, Saxophone, Vocal tracks @ $50/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 past releases:
- M3/M3 on New Alliance
- Couch/Couch on Bulb
- Prehensile Monkey-Tailed Skink/Midnight Dynamite on Bulb
Mastered the following past releases:
- Third Border/Sun of Water, Sea of Light on Radial
- Producer fee $150 per day.
Soundtrack Services
Samples: Theme for Revision All 12 Windows Dream Sequence for Nad & Stacey Highway 99 demo for video game Natural History Where Are You? Downtown
Past Projects
Sound Design:
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
Composer for Film:
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.
Guest Instructor at Columbia College:
Chicago 1992 / 94 / 97
20th century music seminar: composition, improvisation and collaboration.
Composer for Dance:
Ann Arbor, MI 1992-1993
Composed scores for Whitley Setrakian & People Dancing and Laurie Eisenhower Dance Co.
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
