Isibaya 2013
Remember / זכור / Ibuka
Binaural mix for the garden of The Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre JHGC. (use headphones for best sound experience)
Influenza 1918
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.
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
Back of the Moon
Back of the Moon | 2019
Where is Kovno
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
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.