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Robert E. Miller

Sound design professor

Education

  • M.F.A., music, California Institute of the Arts
  • B.F.A., fine art, Davidson College

Credentials

• Professor, sound design, 2002-present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

• Sound design supervisor/faculty, 1999-2002, Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT

• Sound design production supervisor, 1992-1999, UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, Los Angeles

• Audio consultant/sound designer and musician, 1988-1991, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company and John Cage Foundation, New York

• Production consultant/chief audio engineer, 1984-1988, The Japan America Theater and the Japanese-American Cultural Center, Los Angeles

• Institute sound facilities coordinator, 1979-1983, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

• Performance in Hong Kong with the Robert Wood International Dance Company for the 100th Anniversary Celebration of John Cage Symposium, 2012
• Performance in Santa Fe with the Robert Wood International Dance Company for the 100th Anniversary Celebration of John Cage Symposium, 2012
• Savannah College of Art and Design Presidential Fellowship, 2008
• Marty Award, Nomination
• Rising Star Award, Nomination
• Who’s Who of American Professors
• Who’s Who of American Educators
• Oberlin Music Conservatory, 1975

Organizations

• Audio Engineering Society (AES), 1975-present
• Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), 1975-present
• AFM American Federation of Musicians (AFM), 1978-present
• BMI Broadcast Music International, 1980-present
• Electronic Music Foundation, founding member
• SCAD Admission Faculty Representative, Audio Engineering Society, New York, 2015
• Saint Andrew’s School: Arts in Education, Stars committee member

Publications and presentations

• Producer, Frederick Rzewski’s opera Triumph of Death, California Institute of the Arts Spring Festival, 1991.
• Composer, original sound-score for first interactive high definition animation developed between Sony and The Disney Corporation for the 1991 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention, 1990.
• Musical Director, Los Angeles Children’s Summer Theatre Factory, performing member of the Alive Ensemble, Arts-in-Education Performances for Young Audiences, Performing Tree, and the Los Angeles Music Center’s Very Special Arts Festivals, and the California Arts Council Castaic School Project, 1984-1989.
• Production consultant to the producer of the Los Angeles International Arts and Music Festival, 1987.
• Composer of special electronic music and sound effects for feature films: Columbia Pictures, Hardcore; 20th Century Fox, Twilight’s Last Gleaming; Lorimar Pictures, Zardoz; Stik International, Action Impossible; Universal Pictures, Beyond the Time Zone; and public service announcement for The Griffith Observatory with Leonard Nimoy, 1978-1990.
• Sole Proprietor of Lightwave Productions Audio Systems Design and Engineering Acoustical Consultant; Music Production.