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Tater Z the Anti-G

Old-time Shatagee Woods Drum 'n EWI

About Me


John Dodge Miles composes New Music and psychedelic techno, and produces remixes of dance music.
John works in electroacoustic and computer-assisted music composition.
His works, composed for traditional and experimental media, have been broadcast and performed internationally.
He taught music theory, composition, counterpoint, and electronic music at Miami University and the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.
In addition to his tomfoolery on his Akai Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI), John has over 30 years of saxophone performance experience, including work in blues, jazz, avante-garde, and experimental idioms.
He has performed with the US Navy Band, Crane Saxophone Quartet, and The Cajun Connection, and traveled extensively as an instrumental performer throughout the Pacific Marianas and Marshall Islands, Caribbean, and Central and South America.
Brother John is a founding member of the Rev. Suzi and Shanthi Gospel Choir.
He has studied composition with Salvatore Martirano, C. James Sheppard, Paul Steinberg, G. Roger Davis, John Melby, Paul Martin Zonn, Morgan Powell, and Elliott DelBorgo.
He has studied in master classes with Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell.
John is a level-1 Healing Touch practitioner, and was Director of Pegasus Healing Systems (2000).
He was a s6k producer for Real University News.
John lives in a cave in the Shatagee Woods, where he has become transformed into a mysterious Adirondack hermit.
Bro.'. John is Founder of The Shatagee Museum of Unnatural History, where he uses an electronic alchemikal krucible to electronically transform sound into psychedelic techno with a hard driving beat, researches esoterika, audio synthesis, algorithmic composition, develops music composition software, and enjoys the woods.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/11/2007
Band Website: hunsmire.net/
Band Members: Tater Z the Anti-G
DJ Hunsmire P
Influences: Salvatore Martirano
The Sal-Mar Construction


C. James Sheppard
G. Roger Davis
Paul Steinberg
Paul Martin Zonn
James Dowd


Anthony Braxton
Roscoe Mitchell

Willie Dixon
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wayne Shorter
Guillaume de Machaut
Johannes Brahms
Lightnin' Hopkins
Rufus Thomas
Igor Stravinsky
Eric Dolphy
Lamonte Young
Robert Schumann
Gustav Mahler
Alban Berg
Clara Schumann
Johnny Winter
Arnold Schoenberg
Robert Fripp
Josef Haydn
Peter Gabriel
John Cage
Brian Eno
Charlie Parker
Milton Babbitt
Frank Zappa
Captain Beefheart
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Josquin des Pres
Doc Scott
Ed Rush
Anton Webern
Grooverider
Fabio
Hugo Wolf
Albert King
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
Tater Tate
Charles Ives
Henry Cowell

Does Stockhausen really exist? Is he Sirius?

Sounds Like:

Record Label: Shatagee Woods Music Company
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Origin of "Tater Z the Anti-G"

Wednesday, November 30th, 20059:02 pm The Origin of Tater Z the Anti-GI’m unofficially adopting my old nickname "Tater Z the Anti-G".It all started when I was doing in Branson, MO playing with ...
Posted by Tater Z the Anti-G on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:32:00 PST

List of Works

List of Works1985 Cadenza & Shower Song for a Leaky Bathtub - Solo Saxophone. First Performance: Crane School of Music, SUNY at Potsdam, Potsdam, New York; Robert Faub. Swampmusik I - Electroni...
Posted by Tater Z the Anti-G on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:53:00 PST

Notes on compositions by John Dodge Miles

The recent string quartet works of composers Terry Riley and Steve Reich as well as the recorded works of quartets such as the Uptown String Quartet, Turtle Island Quartet and Kronos have concentrated...
Posted by Tater Z the Anti-G on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:48:00 PST

Ls G.A.

L.'s.G.A. (Lincoln's Gettsyburg Address) is a multimedia performance featuring three films, music, and the poet Michael Holloway reciting the Gettsyburg Address through an oxygen mask feeding him heli...
Posted by Tater Z the Anti-G on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:25:00 PST

The Sal-Mar Construction

In 1969, Salvatore Martirano along with a group of engineers and musicians at the University of Illinois began work on the design and construction of a musical electronic instrument. The instrument, n...
Posted by Tater Z the Anti-G on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:15:00 PST

Masonic Poetry

What playful time that we may find, When Brothers true apply the mind To something other than posts; with words better than boasts. ---- There once was a Knight from Kadosh, Who once was heard to say...
Posted by Tater Z the Anti-G on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:46:00 PST

Masonic jokes

1. Joe the bank robber was having a bad dayYa-see, Joe had a bank job go wrong on him a few months back. The job had taken too long and the cops showed up. A scuffle for a gun ensued and, regrettably,...
Posted by Tater Z the Anti-G on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:40:00 PST