"Running Spring" - Alexander Elliott Miller at the Hear Now Music Festival

Alexander Elliott Miller
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www.alexanderemiller.com
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"Running Spring" is a track for live electric guitar and recorded synthesizers created during the pandemic. It is part of a larger project of works called "Antibodypolitic," an album length collection of pieces inspired by pandemic experiences. I wrote this shortly after becoming a runner during the early days of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, as a means of escaping quarantine, and aimed to put some of the driven and determined feelings I had at the time into the music. This video is from a live performance of the piece at the Hear Now Music Festival in Los Angeles in April of 2024, at 2220 Arts and Archives.
ABOUT
Alexander Elliott Miller is a composer, guitarist and educator based in Southern California. His compositions have been described as “deceptively laid back in an LA way…inventive…unconventional (LA Times), and “wild…unearthly…lyrical…a voice worth listening to” (San Francisco Classical Voice).
As a composer, his work has been performed in Carnegie Hall, London's Mile End Art Pavilion, by Grammy nominees Aron Kallay and Tony Arnold and ensembles including HOCKET, Panic Duo, Duo Montagnard, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Boston New Music Initiative, Earplay New Chamber Music and the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet.
As an electric guitarist in the contemporary classical genre, he has played with JacobTV, Long Beach Opera, What's Next? Ensemble, Grammy nominee Vicki Ray, and released a multimedia album about historic landmarks in Los Angeles called "TO....OBLIVION," a 2019 performance of which in Pasadena was listed in the LA Times "8 Best Things to Do in LA," weekend listing. He frequently creates solo fingerpicking arrangements of favorite songs for his CZcams channel.
He teaches composition, music theory and analysis and sight reading at California State University Long Beach's Bob Cole Conservatory of Music, as well as Theory and Songwriting at Chapman University's Hall Musco Conservatory of Music.

[@nicgerpepianist4531]

Love this piece - fantastic performance. Congrats, Alex!

[@dralexandermiller]

Thanks Nic!