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Roger Clark Miller (Mission of Burma/Alloy-Anvil Orchestra, etc.) will perform a "Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble" concert. Onstage he is at his cockpit where he accesses four different electric guitars: a modified Fender Strat and three lap-steels on legs, two prepared with alligator clips and bolts, and the third tuned to a complete Glenn Branca unison E. This third lap-steel is prepared with various slides, coasters, etc. By use of extensive stereo foot-pedals and elaborate looping he creates, by himself, an ensemble. The music is usually structured by dreams from his dream journal, utilizing his "Dream Interpretation" technique, but his new album also features a composition structured by photographs taken by NASA's "Curiosity" Mars Rover. The music is surreal and psychedelic, but is also highly organized and improvised. It could occur no other way.

Miller is a guitarist, pianist, bassist, composer, singer, percussionist and occasional cornet player. He has been a band leader since 1967. His recordings have appeared on Matador, Fire, Ace of Hearts, SST, New Alliance, Forced Exposure, Cuneiform, Atavistic, Feeding Tube, Fun World, World in Sound, and others. He has toured nationally since 1979 and internationally since 1998. His career officially began in 1979 when he co-founded the influential post-punk band Mission of Burma on guitar and vocals. The band is in Michael Azzerad's book on indie rock "Our Band could Be Your Life". He is also the keyboardist for the Anvil Orchestra silent film composing ensemble with recent shows at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Roger Ebert Film Festival. He has performed in too many ensembles aside these, and made too many wildly diverse records to mention here, generally pushing the boundaries of sound and composition. He has scored soundtracks that appeared at the Sundance and the Telluride Film Festivals, and his art installation "Transmuting the Prosaic", has been at two different art museums.