Maxwell Miller is a multimedia artist and composer from the Pacific Northwest currently based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His work seeks to create immersive experiences for his audience, combining a variety of media and sonic textures into sensory soup.
Maxwell Miller's art blends elements of performance art, video art, and experimental music to create chaotic listening spaces. He is often involved with performances of his works, either taking to the stage as an electronics operator or as a performer. He has presented works at Electronic Music Midwest, Performing Media Festival, and the SPLICE Institute, and was the recipient of the 2023 Franklin G. Fisk Composition Award. He is currently the Program Coordinator for the SPLICE Institute, a weeklong summer program which takes place in Kalamazoo, MI.
He will begin study as a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Fall 2024. He recieved a Master's of Music Composition from Western Michigan Univeristy, and a Bacherlor's of Music Composition from Central Washington University. His composition instructors include Lisa Coons, Christopher Biggs, Jiyoun Chung, and Martin Kennedy.
A Letter to My Self - Guitar, Voice, and Electronics (2024)
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Internal Monologue with a Captive Audience - Guitar, Voice, and Electronics (2023)
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Apical Meristem - Flute and Electronics (2023)
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Flight Manifest - Performer, Floor Lamps, and Electronics (2023)
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Danaus Plexippus - Tenor Saxophone and Electronics (2022)
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Replaced - Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, and Interactive Video (2022)
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Ember Moths - Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, and Interactive Video (2022)
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microPlastics - Laptop (2022)
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Writer's Block - Bassoon and Electronics (2022)
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Antithesis (this is the part where I scream) - Guitar, Voice, and Electronics (2024)
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Energy into a System - Soprano and Electronics (2024)
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breaking/building - Clarinet, Oboe, Trombone, Timpani, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, and Electronics (2023)
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Gears - Bassoon and Fixed Media (2022)
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Intermission - Fixed Media (2022)
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Canyon Run - Single Channel Video (2021)
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Through Time - Fixed Media (2021)
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Sunk - Bassoon and Fixed Media (2021)
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Phase - Fixed Media (2021)
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oRing - Electric Bassoon and Fixed Media (2020)
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Entropy - Euphonium and Fixed Media (2020)
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Intersect - Saxophone Quartet (2023)
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Three Short Poems - SATB Choir (2021)
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Elegy for a Friend - Cello and Piano (2021)
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On Becoming Self Aware - Wind Quintet (2021)
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Railroad Crossing - Flute Choir (2020)
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Pumpkin Guts Original Soundtrack - (2023)
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Tales from the Black Box Theme - (2019)
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I Hate You Dad Original Soundtrack - (2019)
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