$15 / 7:40 doors / 8:10 start / seated
"Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar"- Roger Clark Miller record release show.
Act 1 ~ Roger Clark Miller Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble
Act 2 ~ P. Andrew Willis: guitars, loops, machines
Roger Clark Miller is a guitarist, pianist, composer, bassist, singer, percussionist and occasional cornet player. He has been a band leader since 1967. His recordings have appeared on Cuneiform, Matador, Fire, Ace of Hearts, SST, New Alliance, Forced Exposure, Feeding Tube, World in Sound, Atavistic, Sublingual and Fun World. He has toured nationally since 1979 and internationally since 1998. His career officially began in 1979 when he co- founded the influential post-punk band Mission of Burma on guitar and vocals. He formed Birdsongs of the Mesozoic on piano in 1981 and continued in it until 1988. The group blended minimalism, classical, and rock. From 1983-1989 he created his Maximum Electric Piano work, utilizing prepared piano and loops. From 1989 until 1998 he released numerous records as leader, all quite different from each other, on guitar or keyboards. In 1998 he joined the silent film accompanying ensemble Alloy Orchestra on keyboards which continues to the present under the new name The Anvil Orchestra. Roger Ebert said “Alloy Orchestra is the best in the world at accompanying silent film”. From 2002-2015 Mission of Burma reformed to high acclaim, and Roger split his touring time between Burma and Alloy. During this time he composed many soundtracks for documentary films, four which premiered at Sundance. In 2010 he began composing chamber music again and his compositions have been performed at the New England Conservatory, Tufts University and elsewhere, continuing to the present. His art installation, "Transmuting the Prosaic", showed at the Brattleboro Art Museum in 2020 and 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, NH, in 2022. He continues working in multiple formats, and plans to do so into the far distant future.
Reviews for his Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble album, "Eight Dream Interpretations":
POP Matters: “His skills as a guitar player and his bottomless imagination have collided in a perfect encapsulation of the two traits, bringing forth a third strand that just can’t be imitated by anyone else, no matter how hard anyone should try.”
The Arts Fuse, Boston. Dec. 2022: “As fluid and experimental as Eight Dream Interpretations is, the album’s rambunctious sonic palette is nothing if not inviting.”
MOJO, March 2023 (4 stars): “Miller finds plenty of room to operate fruitfully in the terrain between the more challenging Fripp led instrumental segments of a King Crimson live show and a lost American Primitive classic from 1971."
All About Jazz (it was also in their “Best of 2022”): “The dance between composition, performance and improvisation is unique, the end result of Miller's long journey into these lands.”
PAW is a film composer, guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, and sound artist who makes a combination of improvised soundscapes and instrumental songs with world music, music concrète, and microtonal elements all filtered through a DIY cinematic prism. Current band projects include bass/synth for Roger C Miller’s (Mission of Burma) Trinary System and Lousivlle based, The Web/Azuza Inkh.