ROGER CLARK MILLER
Founding Member and Guitarist from Mission of Burma
Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble
"Curiosity" and "Eight Dream Interpretations"
Thursday October 9th, 2025
The Lounge at Revolution Gallery
With special guest Pete Benzin
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Roger Clark Miller is a guitarist, pianist, bassist, composer, 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, Atavistic, Fun World, World in Sound, and others. 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. The band is in Michael Azzerad's book on indie rock "Our Band could Be Your Life". He is also the keyboardist for the Anvil Orchestra
silent film composing ensemble with recent shows at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Roger Ebert Film Festival. He has scored soundtracks that appeared at the Sundance and the Telluride Film Festivals, and his art installation "Transmuting the Prosaic", has been at two different art museums. He has performed
in too many different ensembles, and made too many wildly diverse records, to list them all.
For this concert, Miller will be performing compositions from his newest album on Cuneiform Records "Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble."
He currently uses a customized stratocaster 6-string electric guitar and three lap-steel guitars on stands, two of them loaded with alligator clips or bolts, the other tuned to a post-Glenn Branca unison E. Using bass and tenor guitar strings, this melts his previous prepared piano ideas (Maximum Electric Piano) into more portable guitars, resulting in percussive grooves and bass-lines. Combining advanced looping technology with new stomp- boxes, many in stereo, he truly creates a "solo ensemble"
sound.
On "Curiosity" he also revisited his "Natural Phenomena" composing technique, in this case using five photographs taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover to structure the music of a longer composition. Space Music indeed.
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