Caroline Louise Miller (they/them) is a US composer based in Portland, Oregon. Their work broadly explores affect, ecology, labor politics, tactility, and digital materiality, often addressing contemporary issues within dreamlike musical spaces that thread field recordings, shimmering textures, and romantic melodic lines through harsh noise and clattering dissonances. They have most recently received grants, fellowships, and commissions through Alarm Will Sound, SPLICE Ensemble with funding from Chamber Music America, Guerilla Opera, Transient Canvas, and Ensemble Adapter. In 2018 they won the ISB/David Walter Composition Competition for Hydra Nightingale, created with improvisor and bassist Kyle Motl. Recent projects include Superlunary, a collection of acousmatic soundscapes for improvisation, with George Colligan; and Here-There, a multimedia installation with Alarm Will Sound and digital media artist Stefani Byrd that explores layered histories of labor at abandoned and active California railroad sites. C.L.M.'s music appears across the U.S. and internationally. Caroline is Assistant Professor of Music in Sonic Arts at Portland State University, and holds a Ph.D in Music from UC San Diego.
CURRENT
Here-There, multimedia installation, with Alarm Will Sound and collaborator Stefani Byrd.
Antiphony, piano and electronics, with Keith Kirchoff, piano
Superlunary, electronics and improvisor, with George Colligan, jazz pianist and multi-instrumentalist
NEWS
Kyle Motl's official recording of our collab Hydra Nightingale is released March 18th 2022 on Infrequent Seams, alongside pieces by Anqi Liu, Jessie Cox, Kyle Motl, and Asher Tobin Chodos. Pre-order the album HERE and Read about it at HERE @ Republic of Jazz.
EVENTS
May 26-June 1, 2024
Antiphony
Keith Kirchoff, piano
Alba Music Festival
Alba, Italy
Feb. 15, 2024, 7:30pm
Antiphony
Keith Kirchoff, piano
Miami University
Oxford, OH
Feb. 2, 2024, 7:30pm
Antiphony
Keith Kirchoff, piano
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
Jan. 19, 2024, 7:30pm
Antiphony
Keith Kirchoff, piano
First Parish in Brookline
Brookline, MA
Nov. 4, 2023, 11am
Divum Ficta
Liveset at SPLICE Festival V
Berklee College of Music
Boston, MA
Nov. 3, 2023, 2pm
"Designing 'Songwriting' as an inclusive, student-led course"
Talk @ SPLICE Festival V
Berklee College of Music
Boston, MA
Oct. 26, 2023, 3pm
Antiphony
Keith Kirchoff, piano
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT
Oct. 13-15, 2023
Red Sprite Lightning
live electronics with George Colligan, piano
EDME New Music Festival
Eugene, Oregon
Oct. 3, 2023
Red Sprite Lightning (fixed media)
MUSLAB International Electroacoustic Music Festival
Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Sept. 19, 2023
Vessel
T.J. Borden, cello
Wheaton College Conservatory of Music
Wheaton, Illinois
June 23rd, 2023, 11:15am
"Designing 'Songwriting' as an inclusive, student-led course"
Talk @ New Music Gathering
Portland State University
Portland, OR,
April 23rd, 2023, 4:00
[new piece]
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble
Composers Cookoff | A Fundraiser for PJCE
The 1905
Portland, OR
April 11th, 2023, 7:30pm
territories, refrains
for flutes, clarinet, harp, percussion, and light
Ossia New Music, Hatch Hall
Eastman School of Music
Rochester, NY
April 1st, 2023, 4:00pm
Subsong
UNK New Music Festival
Kearney, Nebraska
March 6, 2023, 8:00pm
Impressions of the sky from underwater
Transient Canvas
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
February 21, 2023, 7:00pm
Ansible
SPLICE Ensemble
Outpost Concert Series
UC Riverside
Riverside, California
January 12, 2023, 12:00pm
Superlunary
With George Colligan, Piano and Melodica
Portland State University
Portland, OR
November 12, 2022, 7:30pm
Impressions of the sky from underwater
Transient Canvas
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
October 14, 2022, 6pm
Impressions of the sky from underwater
Transient Canvas
The Dancz center for New Music @ University of Georgia
Athens, GA
September 25th, 2022
Impressions of the sky from underwater
Transient Canvas
Boston Conservatory@Berklee
Boston, MA
June 19th, 2022
Hydra Nightingale with Kyle Motl
Infrequent Seams Streamfest
May 27th, 2022
Lucky Skies premiere
by Jesse Orth, Tuba
Denton, TX
May 14th, 2022
Impressions of the Sky from Underwater
Transient Canvas@Boston Conservatory
April 23, 2022
Jungles:Remix
College Music Society NW conference
Portland, OR
December 4th, 2021
The Witness and Roseville
With collaborators Lee Dunn and Stefani Byrd
part of _OpenLab
Sonic Matter Festival
Zurich Switzerland
December 1st, 2021
The Witness
with filmmaker Lee Dunn
SAMP Laptop Ensemble Concert
Portland State University
November 20th, 2021
Witnessing the West Coast
Sonic Matter Radio Feature
with Fabiano Kueva
October 16th, 2021
Ansible
SPLICE Ensemble @ Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah
October 14th, 2021
Divum Ficta
Live-set @ Portland State University
Portland, Oregon
October 1st, 2021
Jungles: Remix
EEMS: Blackout Series @ UT Austin
Austin, Texas
