Remember / זכור / Ibuka

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Binaural mix for the garden of The Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre JHGC. (use headphones for best sound experience)

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Influenza 1918

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South African composer Philip Miller has created a project to assist funding singers and musicians who are currently unable to earn money during the COVID 19 Lockdown. #musoreliefSA

This is a new arrangement of an old song, 'Influenza(1918)' which the celebrated South African choral composer Reuben T. Caluza wrote in response to the Spanish Flu epidemic in our country. Philip located the original 1920 recording online and re-arranged the song for vocals and brass. He worked with a group of talented vocalists and musicians who recorded themselves in their own homes, supplying voice notes for him to assemble the whole song together. The song is available via Spotify and Soundcloud as well as on Facebook and Instagram, donations via BUSQR.

To donate to this cause, scan the QR code displayed at the end of this video or visit: busqr.co.za/streamer/philip-miller to donate directly.

All donations are greatly appreciated.

Extracts from The Underground

Video Design by Catherine Meyburgh

“A musical journey down the mineshafts”

Dianne De Beer, Star Tonight

“THE INSTALLATION keeps a taut pace and rhythm. It sways from the orderliness of mine schedules, bells, sirens and rosters to the energy in a breath, to the sounds of hands beating against boots and emotions in words full of ominous uncertainty”

 Ufrieda Ho, The Star

Hacer Noche / Crossing Night

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November 2018, Oaxaca, Mexico

A  live performance of  South African songs of revolution for a marching brass band for the opening of the exhibition, "Hacher Noche/ Crossing Night” curated by Francisco Berzunza, performed by musicians from the Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca.

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Kaunas Bienalé – There and Not There

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July 2017

Sound works installed in letterboxes in the Jewish Ghetto of Kaunas and outside buildings once inhabited by Jewish residents. The soundscape comprises of spoken word recitations of Yiddish aphorisms, combined with an old folk song “ A Yiddish Kind”.