Red Sprite Lightning is a collaboration between Caroline Louise Miller and George Colligan, featuring improvisation and electronic soundscapes. It is inspired by elusive electrical discharges called “sprites” that appear in the earth’s mesosphere. While creating the electronics I imagined an interdimensional storm in which strange things might suddenly appear and disappear through rips in spacetime.
- Caroline Miller
Caroline Louise Miller is a US com poser based in Portland, Oregon. Their work broadly explores affect, ecology, labor politics, tactility, and digital mate- riality, often addressing contemporary issues within dreamlike musical spaces that thread field recordings, shimmering textures, and romantic melodic lines through harsh noise and clattering dissonances. They have most recently received grants, fellowships, and commissions through Alarm Will Sound, SPLICE Ensemble with funding from Chamber Music America, Guerilla Opera, Transient Canvas, and Ensemble Adapter. In 2018 they won the ISB/David Walter Composition Competition for Hydra Nightingale, created with improvisor and bassist Kyle Motl. Other projects include whistle-session hijacker, a collection of acousmatic/instrumental hip-hop crossover tracks. C.L.M.’s music appears across the U.S. and internationally.
Caroline is Assistant Professor of Music in Sonic Arts at Portland State University, and holds a Ph.D in Music from UC San Diego.
George Colligan is not only one of the great jazz pianists of his generation, but he has earned an international reputa tion as a multi-instrumentalist (drums, trumpet, organ, keyboards), composer, accompanist, teacher, and bandleader, as well as blogger (jazztruth.blogspot. com) and youtuber. Winner of the 2015 DownBeat magazine Critics Poll (Key board), he has had a long association with living jazz legend Jack De-Johnette; recent touring took Colligan around the U.S. with “An Evening with Jack DeJohnette and Savion Glover.” With over 130 albums to date as an accompanist, Colligan has worked with a long list of jazz greats, including Buster Williams, Cassandra Wilson, Don Byron, Ravi Col trane, and many others. His latest album, Humanity (Ultimatum) 2020 is his 33rd as a bandleader. His forthcoming CD, Theoretical Planets: Long Term Goals is on the Portland Jazz Composer Ensemble Label and features PSU faculty and former students.
Colligan, a New York resident for 15 years, now resides in Portland, Oregon where he is an Associate Professor at Portland State University. He recently won a RACC Grant as well as the PSU College of The Arts Dean’s Council Award for Research, Scholarship and Creativity (2020).
www.carolinelouisemiller.com
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