Caroline Louise Miller
composition & sound design
Current Projects
Spelunking, for trumpet and electronics, with Alexandria Smith. A piece about things found in caves: bottomless pits, giant crystal formations, bioluminescence.
Musica Ficta for live electronics and four performers. For Darmstadt Summer Course, Workshop "Discontinuity"
[New Work] commissioned by SPLICE Ensemble, for SPLICE Institute 2019.
News
I'm excited to collaborate with SPLICE Ensemble on a new piece, with a commission through Chamber Music America's classical commissioning program. The work will be premiered at SPLICE institute in summer 2019.
Grand Prize @ ISB Composition Competition
Hydra Nightingale, a work I created in collaboration with bassist and improviser Kyle Motl, recently won the ISB/David Walter Composition Competition, Grand Prize, Solo Bass Division. It will be performed at the 2019 ISB convention at the Jacobs School of Music, University of Indiana.
New electro-acoustic work
Subsong is influenced by future bass, glitch pop, and acousmatic music. I recorded many of the singing and clapping samples in an enclosed space of smooth concrete, on Laguna Mountain, Southern California. Sounds of the voice and body percussion are pulverized, distorted, and squeezed through claustrophobic and cavernous spaces, digital nightmares and underground bunkers.
I CARE IF YOU LISTEN reviewed SPOR festival and Vivarium. Check out the review here.
Vivarium premiered in May 2017, and was performed by myself and Anna Jalving. Amplified, magnified pomegranates are dissected with kitchen utensils, medical instruments, and fingers to explore tactile facets of the culinary, the surgical, and material fetishism. As the pomegranates disintegrate and insides become outsides, the performers strive for a heightened tactile familiarity with the fruit.
