Jesse Paul Miller

VIETNAM 2017

An experimental album featuring field recordings gathered in Vietnam, August 2017, altered using effects, and collaged with found and altered radio.

As well, 2 un-affected field recordings from hidden places accessible by boats in tunnels in Trang An.

I consider musique concrete albums in the vein of Luck Ferrari, Holger Czukay, and others an inspiration and touchstone.

https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/music

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From SE Asia 2005-2023

Field recordings gathered in Burma (Myanmar), August 2008.

(at the beginning of a 6 month journey through Southeast Asia in 2008), I found the inspiration to practice a kind of methodology for recording…

Recordings gathered in a valley in Huelo, Maui, 2010. Including the sound of the "kiva" or meditation dome as seen on cover image. Sounds assembled and layered to create both a document of place, and simultaneously an unreal poem relating to the energies and spirit of this location.

Full album download includes "The Hook of Maui", a separate piece recorded and assembled 2010 - 2014.

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Released October 4, 2014

Recorded and assembled by Jesse Paul Miller, 2010.

Seven raw slabs of stacked sound from records found, played, and layered in real time from the internet without a score.

Mixing, production, cover collage, by Jesse Paul Miller, 2015/2108

1 Moonlight Correction Fluid

4:37

2 Spitting Zoo

2:27

3 Can't Quite Get It Together

7:01

4 Persuasive Perforation

17:13

5 Mystery is a Mess

34:12

6 Borrowed Mind

10:22

7 The Bear Was A Dog

19:49

This album is a quiet collection/composition of field recordings.

Featuring rain, frogs, highway overpass, hummingbirds and children, ice breaking in a tiny bay, oysters, bamboo, and all that accompanies.

A series of simple sound combinations which transform stereo speakers into instruments for pure sounds.

Transform your home stereo into a sound art installation.

The "Archive Series", [AS] shares my sound experiments and field recordings made in the past (between 1990 and the present) andl (mostly) previously un-heard, except for a handful of copies given out on cassette tape or cdr.

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A collage of field recordings from Java, Bali, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Laos.

Recorded in 2008, assembled in 2009.

Presented for listening as a painting of sounds in time from these places.

Digital re-issue of a CD-R release (limited edition of 50).

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Released December 23, 2015

LIVE RADIO AND STREET SOUNDS OF CENTRAL JAVA

During a 4 month stay in Central Java in 2017, I was again reminded by daily exposure to a vast variety of musical sounds coming from radios and on the street, of the complex history of this island.

Needless to say, Java is an ancient crossroads, with culture rooted in Hinduism, Animism, Islam, and other beliefs; with the cross-pollination of these influences resulting in the complex current musical forms..

This is a compilation of re-combinative musics recorded in Solo (Surakarta), and Yogyakarta, Java, in 2013 & 2017. The tracks on this compilation were captured from multiple radio channels, using a small portable radio.

They fall into the descriptive categories of “Jathilan”, “Joget”, or “Karawitan”, “Wayang Orang”, “Wayang Kulit”, “Ketoprak”, “Campursari”, also..“Campur” which means “Mixed”.

Also, some traditional court music segments, radio fuzz and anomalies, spoken word in puppetry and plays, commercials, and..…

Although gamelan may be the most well known instrument from this region, there are also many instruments made from bamboo.. ancient ones made of this are purported to have existed even in the pre-history of the Hindu era in Java, 1000 years ago.

The intention of this mix is simply to share the “Rame” (lively joyful expression) and often more raw, innovative, and mysterious sounds created and utilized in the transmission of tradition and pure entertainment, in Central Java, 21st Century.

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Also included are:

Live recordings of the sounds of food carts in Solo and Yogyakarta. Although maybe considered banal by some whom live with them, there is a massive variety of these, not just in Central Java, but the whole of the Indonesian Archipelago.

A few recordings of street musicians I captured are included; and a few from the Takbiran (Idul Fitri) festival in Yogyakarta in July of 2017.

All recordings are examples of what I found fun or interesting, this is a personal catalogue.

It is compiled for 60 minute cassette, hence the A/B sides.

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A set of un-affected field recordings, a compilation of the sounds occurring in daily life in Thailand and Laos.

Temples, wats, amplified voices, monks chanting, children playing, birds, rain, insects, dogs, vehicles, and more..

Recorded in January and February, 2005.

All recordings presented as they sounded, without over-dubbing.

Thailand: Ayutthaya, Bangkok, Petchaburi, Ranong

Laos: Luang Prabang, Vientiane

Listen to while reading, cooking, creating; transport yourself to these places and these places to your space by listening!

Untitled No. 33, 2024 •

Acrylic paint, collage, ink, pencil, gel medium, gesso, UV resist varnish, on heavyweight printmaking paper/wood panel.

6” x 8” x 1"

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New available from studio, dm me to own

See more new works here

https://www.jessepaulmiller.com/copy-of-drawing-mixed-media

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Dream Boxes and Psychic Microphones • Radio and Other Sounds From Southeast Asia 2008 - 2017

jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/dream-boxes-and-psychic-microphones-radio-and-other-sounds-from-southeast-asia-2008-2017

Beach drawings…

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