South African Composer

Where is Kyra

 

"The South African composer Philip Miller creates a soundscape of squeals and dissonant plinks, of horns that sound like groans of metal — or are they groans of metal transmuted into horns? There’s a bizarre industrial wail as the camera follows a bent-over old woman tapping her cane along the sidewalk towards a bank. Is that … ? Would she … ? Oh, yes, she would. “

- David Edelstein,  Vulture

" Tenaciously pronounced is Philip Miller’s score, whose jarring sounds were able to create tension galore.”

- Diane Carson, KDHX

BikoHausen, Steven Bantu Biko and Karlheinz Stockhausen, in Johannesburg, 1971

Multi-screened projection:

Video design | Catherine Meyburgh

Camera | Richard Pakleppa

commissioned by the Goethe Institute, Johannesburg

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“a truly fascinating and layered work which shouldn’t be missed”

Marry Corrigal, The Sunday Times

Dada Masilo’s Giselle

South African composer, Philip Miller collaborates with the world renowned South African choreographer, Dada Masilo to create a new score working with electronic sampling, African choral music,poly-rhythmic layers of drumming and hidden traces of the original Adolphe Adam’s original music.

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Kaboom

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A multimedia installation. KABOOM! tells the story of the nearly two million African porters and carriers used by the British, French, and Germans during World War I in Africa. Set to a rousing, orchestral score co-composed by Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi’s, the monumental, three-channel work is projected onto a scale model of the stage.

The Head and The Load

William Kentridge’s and composers, Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisis exploration of Africa’s role in the First World War combines music, dance, film projections, mechanized sculptures and shadow play to illuminate the untold story of the millions of African porters and carriers who served—and in many cases died for— British, French and German battlefield forces.