A collaborative installation
with surround-sound environment by Steven M. Miller
and large-format black and white photographs by Jennifer Schlesinger
Artists' Bios
Steven M. Miller is a composer, performer, improvisor, educator, audio engineer, and producer. His primary musical interests are in electroacoustic and computer music, improvisation, world music, and acoustic ecology/acoustic communication. His work has appeared on numerous CD and DVD releases internationally. He has performed in a variety of solo and ensemble contexts throughout the US, and performances and radio broadcasts of his electroacoustic music have occurred in North & South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia.
Miller is Professor of Contemporary Music and the former director of the Contemporary Music Program at The College of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, where he teaches courses in electroacoustic music, composition, aesthetics, applied tuning systems, Javanese gamelan, acoustic ecology/acoustic communication, and world music, and produces the annual Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music. He coordinates and co-hosts the weekly radio show "Other Voices, Other Sounds" on KUNM 89.9 FM in Albuquerque, NM. His book and CD reviews are published in the Computer Music Journal and elsewhere. He was the founding Vice President of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, and recently co-edited the Fall/Winter 2007 issue of Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, a publication of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.
During the 2004-2005 academic year, he was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Computer Music Center; performer with Gamelan Son of Lion and Gamelan Kusuma Laras (in residence at the New York Indonesian Consulate); gave guest lectures on his music at a number of venues throughout the region; gave performances of his solo electroacoustic music; and worked on composition and writing projects.
As an undergraduate Miller studied electronic music and composition with Ingram Marshall and audio recording & production with Peter Randlette at The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA. He completed an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, where he studied with David Rosenboom, Larry Polansky, Maggi Payne, Anthony Braxton and William Winant. In 1989-90 Miller was a Fulbright Scholar in composition, studying traditional and new music for gamelan at STSI-Surakarta (Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia, the national performing arts college) and the Pura Mangkunegaran in Surakarta, Central Java Indonesia.
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Jennifer Schlesinger is a Connecticut native, who graduated from the College of Santa Fe in 1998 with a B.A. in Photography and Journalism. Jennifer has taught photography for various organizations and schools and is currently an adjunct faculty member in the Marion Center for Photographic Arts, College of Santa Fe. She has been investigating the world through photography for over ten years and has exhibited at numerous colleges, art organizations and galleries including Southwest regional venues such as Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe), Eastern New Mexico University, and Santa Fe Art Institute as well as nationally, such as the Portland Northwest College of Art. Her work has been published in numerous catalogues and magazines, and is represented in many private as well as public collections including the Huntington Botanical Art Collections in California. In 2005 she received three honors of recognition; a grant from the New Mexico Arts Division; a Golden Light Award in Landscape Photography by the Maine Photographic Workshops and she was a finalist in the Willard Van Dyke Grant given by the New Mexico Center for Photography.Schlesinger has worked in non-profit arts administration for various organizations including the Center for Contemporary Arts, (Santa Fe, 1999-2001); SITE Santa Fe (1999-2002), and was the Assistant Director for Santa Fe Art Institute (2002-2005). She served as Co-Curator with Woody Vasulka on the Vasulka Archive for purchase by the Daniel Langlois Foundation in 2000 while in residency at the Art & Science Laboratory. Her work is represented by Verve Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM.
EDUCATION: 1998, BA, Photography, College of Santa Fe
REPRESENTATION: Verve Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM