Releasing on all platforms January 10th, 2025:
Alexander Elliott Miller's Antibodypolitic
Conceived in the very early days of the Covid 19 pandemic, guitarist and composer Alexander Elliott Miller's new album
Antibodypolitic combines rock, electronic and modern classical influences into a collection of works dealing with the pandemic experience.
The five pieces that comprise the album feature overdriven lead guitar melodies set in a sonic landscape of lush layered synthesizers,
bringing together at once a sense of isolation, reflective sadness and eventual hope.
Alexander Elliott Miller's Antibodypolitic
Conceived in the very early days of the Covid 19 pandemic, guitarist and composer Alexander Elliott Miller's new album
Antibodypolitic combines rock, electronic and modern classical influences into a collection of works dealing with the pandemic experience.
The five pieces that comprise the album feature overdriven lead guitar melodies set in a sonic landscape of lush layered synthesizers,
bringing together at once a sense of isolation, reflective sadness and eventual hope.
Running Spring is an energetic and driven work inspired by becoming a runner in the early days of quarantine. Antibodypolitic, the title track and largest work on the album, was composed early after vaccination and expresses a mixture of hopeful relief and reflective sadness. In the Company of Thoughts is a brooding, contemporary classical work composed during the winter of 2020, where Miller evokes a cello on the electric guitar, creating a picture of contemplative isolation. Elegia Universalis is a lament not over the passing of any specific individual, but a lament of all of the loss experienced early in the pandemic era. Ever Ending is a jubilant, celebratory work created near the end of the pandemic era, with a lead guitar line over layered modular synthesizer parts. |
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Album Release Show
Brightwork New Music and Tuesdays @ Monk Space present:
Alexander Elliott Miller & Wendy Richman: Solo Duos
January 14th, 2025
8:00pm
Monk Space
4414 W. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90004
TICKETS
Alexander Elliott Miller & Wendy Richman: Solo Duos
January 14th, 2025
8:00pm
Monk Space
4414 W. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90004
TICKETS
"Running Spring"
at the Hear Now Music Festival
(public video)
at the Hear Now Music Festival
(public video)
"Running Spring" (2020) was next, composed and realized by Los Angeles - based Alexander Elliott Miller.
This was performed on electric guitar in conjunction with a formidable amount of digital processing....
There was an introspective feel to this, much like the way jogging lets the mind focus on ideas and the abstract.
A faster tempo marked a sprint to the finish. Running Spring puts many different sounds under the control of a single player,
impressively expanding the creative possibilities."
- Paul Muller, Sequenza 21
This was performed on electric guitar in conjunction with a formidable amount of digital processing....
There was an introspective feel to this, much like the way jogging lets the mind focus on ideas and the abstract.
A faster tempo marked a sprint to the finish. Running Spring puts many different sounds under the control of a single player,
impressively expanding the creative possibilities."
- Paul Muller, Sequenza 21
BIO
Described by the LA Times as “deceptively laid back in an LA way…inventive…unconventional,” Alexander Elliott Miller is a Southern California composer whose primary instrument is a Gibson Les Paul.
Miller’s compositions feature the guitar as a solo instrument with electronic accompaniment or in integrated in contemporary classical chamber ensembles. His largest projects are ANTIBODYPOLITIC, an album length project of pandemic themed works for electric guitar and synthesizers, and TO….OBLIVION: Historic Landmarks Around Los Angeles, an album released in 2018. The latter work is a collection of pieces inspired by six lost landmarks in Los Angeles, each of some social or symbolic significance, scored for solo electric guitar, foley-style sound effects, live processing and video slideshow of evolving “then and now" images. The album received profiles in the LAist and Long Beach Press Telegram, and a 2019 performance at Boston Court Pasadena was listed in the LA Times “8 Best Things to do this Weekend.” His music has also been performed by Grammy nominated artists Vicki Ray, Tony Arnold and Aron Kallay, and he has written works featuring his guitar playing for the HOCKET piano duo, Panic Duo, and for his own guitar percussion duo with Ben Phelps. His guitar and saxophone duo Chaparral, originally commissioned and recorded by the Duo Montagnard, has been frequently included on their concert tours, and further toured and recorded by the Duo Confluence in Italy. He has received honors including a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Earplay Donald Aird Composers Award and in 2017, and pianist Vincent Craig performed Miller’s piano solo Actions & Resonances at Carnegie Hall. He is a dedicated educator, having had the opportunity to serve for over a decade on the faculty of California State University Long Beach, where he teaches all levels of composition, theory and musicianship at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music, and at Chapman University. Miller holds degrees from USC, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He lives in Long Beach, CA, with his girlfriend Christen and their dachshund, Nessie. |
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