Steven M. Miller is a composer, sound artist, and musician currently based in Singapore where he is Associate Professor of Sonic Arts at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore.
His creative activity and background includes electroacoustic, instrumental, and vocal music; collaborative intermedia projects with photographers, film/video artists, dancers/choreographers, and actors; live performance, gallery installations, compositions for recorded media, and music and sound design for video/film/new media; audio recording and production; traditional musics of Java, Bali, the Balkans, Middle East and North Africa. He has performed in a variety of solo and ensemble contexts throughout the US, and performances and radio broadcasts of his music have occurred in North & South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia.
He curated and produced the Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music for 12 years; organized and co-hosted the weekly radio broadcast of contemporary music and sound art Other Voices, Other Sounds on KUNM 89.9 FM in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA for 8 years; curated the Atrium Sound Space ambient sound gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico for 2 years. His writings can be found in international journals, websites, and magazines on computer music, acoustic ecology, and world music.
During the 2004-2005 academic year while on teaching sabbatical he was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Computer Music Center; performer with Gamelan Son of Lion and Gamelan Kusuma Laras (in residence at the New York Indonesian Consulate); and gave guest lectures on his music at a number of venues throughout the region.
Previous teaching includes The College of Santa Fe (New Mexico, USA) Contemporary Music Program; Alabama State University School of Music; residencies, guest lectures, and workshops at Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, New York University, Hunter College (CUNY), The University at New Paltz (SUNY), University of New Mexico, Cornish College of the Arts, and Western Illinois University, Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia (now Institut Seni Indonesia) Surakarta.
As an undergraduate Miller studied electronic music and composition with Ingram Marshall and audio recording & production with Peter Randlette at The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA. He completed an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, where he studied with David Rosenboom, Larry Polansky, Maggi Payne, Anthony Braxton and William Winant. In 1989-90 Miller was a Fulbright Scholar in composition, studying traditional and new music for gamelan at Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia and the Pura Mangkunegaran in Surakarta, Central Java Indonesia.
Miller's personal website can be found here and he can be reached via email at .
Updated on 01/06/2009
