Roger Clark Miller (from Mission of Burma!), Business Jazz, Satyr/Elfheim

Sat, 18 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm UTC-04:00

The Government Center | Pittsburgh

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Roger Clark Miller (from Mission of Burma!), Business Jazz, Satyr\/Elfheim
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Sat Oct 18. 7:30 pm. $20/$25. all ages.
Government Center, 715 East St, North Side.
Advance tickets on sale at Brown Paper Tickets online.
http://rogermillerpgh.brownpapertickets.com
the legendary guitarist from Mission of Burma
performing "Curiosity for Solo Guitar Ensemble"
ROGER CLARK MILLER
https://rogerclarkmiller.com
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/curiosity-for-solo-electric-guitar-ensemble
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eight-dream-interpretations-for-solo-electric-guitar-ensemble
with special guests
Business Jazz (Chris Cannon & Erik Cirelli)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CZaGMj71_YBb-ncYaJ8e6m2COAQUsKH
and Satyr/Elfheim
https://satyrelfheim.bandcamp.com/
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 Matador, Fire, Ace of Hearts, SST, New Alliance, Forced Exposure, Cuneiform, Atavistic, Feeding Tube, 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 performed in too many ensembles aside these, and made too many wildly diverse records to mention here, generally pushing the boundaries of sound and composition. 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.
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 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.
To organize the compositions, he turned to his "Dream Interpretation" technique. By tightly following and translating a specific dream into music, a new type of structure was available: organic and personal, yet universal. Realizing the essentially surrealistic/ psychedelic nature of dreams, the type of guitar sounds he was interested in now had an appropriate context.
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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The Government Center, 715 East St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-4930, United States

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