Philip Miller

Philip Miller is a South African composer and sound artist who works traverses different boundaries and genres:  from his internationally acclaimed and ground breaking work: Rewind a Cantata for voice, tape and testimony, to his numerous multimedia collaborations with the artist William Kentridge exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world.

Much of his work explores aural histories and testimonies found in both public and his own personal archives.  Recent commissions have been a soundscape in the garden of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (2019) a sound installation in the streets of the Kovno Ghetto for the Kaunas Bienale: “There and not There” 2018 and The African Choir- Reimagined 1891, a sound work which accompanies archival photographs of the first  South African choir to tour London at the Apartheid Museum, IZIKO National Gallery, Cape Town and Autograph ABP Gallery (London)(2017).

Recent sound works include “Bikohausen: a sound and video installation at The International Music Institute Darmstadt Festival, “There and not There at the  Kaunas Biennale 2013 and  “ Something this way comes” a film made with Jo Ractliffe and  Catherine Meyburg.  He is currently working on a new opera “GLOW- The life and times of Simon Nkoli” and a new cantata for the Kaunas Cultural Capital of Europe 2022 in Lithuania.

He has been the recipient of honorary fellowships and residencies including The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Centre, Civitella Rainieri, Yaddo and is a Associate Research fellow at  the Centre of Archive and Public Culture(APC) University of Cape Town.