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Kristin Miltner (K*M*T*V, miba) makes music primarily with computers. A great deal of it involves her incredible voice, and she is a great keyboard player as well. So one could say Miltnerâ€™s music is completely digital (the fingers are digits) and yet very rich in an organic-ness that looks outward through the 0s and 1s to the vastness of natural coincidence. She most often performs live with versions of her custom software. She has designed this to scan sound files and live input, with varying degrees of random elements and varying durations). The software then allows her to instantly restructure the sounds into sequenced arrays of units (instantly meaning now, real time) of varying lengths (again, according the chance or purpose). This scanning idea is like imagining a giant octopus in a long thin hallway, up on the third floor of a long thin building with continuous windows on each side of the hallway. One can touch both sides of the hallway with oneâ€™s fingertips (if one is an octopus). The hallway, on its other axis (the length of the hallway), is infinite. So the Octopus runs up and down the hallway opening and closing windows, letting a little bit of water in here and there, but never stops moving back and forth and some windows stay open for longer than others. But thereâ€™s a rhythm to it; itâ€™s an efficient octopus. The ocean is the sound source, the hallway and octopus are the scanners and the windows are what determine what gets in, the octopusâ€™s rhythm is the sequencing mechanism. Furthermore, these units (the sequenced, scanned bits) can then be continuously manipulated and even rescanned and processed in various ways to create the exceedingly complex textual world of Kristinâ€™s music.(thank you Jorge Boehringer, for such an awesome description of my music)Her duo with electronic musician and composer Mark Bartscher is called miba and their recently released album â€œThe Corplate Porblemâ€ features sampling and sequencing software built by the composers, as well as voice, various toys, birds, bells, and cats. www.paxrecordings.com: mibaPast performances: San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Mission Creek Music Festival. Video Work has been shown at the Rencontres International Film and Video Festival, Berlin. Coming up: Prague Quadrennial Scenofest: http://www.scenofest.org/index.html a festival for sound design in Theatre.

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Member Since: 7/21/2006
Band Website: praemedia.com/consumerproducts.html
Band Members: 2 arms and 2 legs, and my poor ol' brain

affiliations: miba, SFEMF, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, nativity sequence, pity party, brown bunny ensemble, bilge.radiolaria, whispercultureMY FIRST SOLO CD, "GRAINS," IS OUT ON PRAEMEDIA EVERYONE! UNENDING THANKS TO LANCE GRABMILLER AND ANGIE HILE FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN.http://www.praemedia.com/consumerproducts.htmla suite of pieces applying the rhythmic scanner patch on my voice - some singing and some tiny whispers - and some big thick synth textures, a few birds, a smattering of beats, singing bowls, and random things from the guts of my computer.cd release party to happen soon. ...august? SFEMF 2007 is fast approaching. maybe i will have to wait til after the festival. Anyway, here's a link to the CD: grains

Influences: the radish spirit, and myHENS

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Record Label: pax/praemedia
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

i finally beat Okami

wow, what a cool game, I will miss it. Anyone out there played something on PS2 that looks that stunning? I am going to find this game extremely hard to equal or even come close to.
Posted by kristin miltner on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:11:00 PST

psychic links

jorge and i were in each others' dreams last night. in mine, jorge and i had to catch a cross country bus. we were in a hurry to go, but had to empty out our bags and find out tickets first, which mad...
Posted by kristin miltner on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:57:00 PST

anyone out there a robyn hitchcok fan?

i've known about him for a while...but right now i am getting totally seduced.http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=fgjY7uxP3AK&aid=HiF SjlsAK0E
Posted by kristin miltner on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:37:00 PST

chickies growing every day

wow...i am amazed. they're about a week old and perching already...when i take them out into the grass they wiggle their (newly sprouted!) tail feathers to try to get down into the dirt to take dust b...
Posted by kristin miltner on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:45:00 PST

cd out, 'grains' on praemedia

oh yeah, and of course i have a solo cd out. those of you that don't know. i haven't done a formal press release or announcement even though lance has...i'm still kind of waiting until i figure out a ...
Posted by kristin miltner on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:06:00 PST

chicky babies

they came! the new additions to the miltner/caruthers farm are here! well, the only thing that really makes it a farm, unless you count 4 cats.2 happy healthy baby Ameraucauna chicks -- we hope they b...
Posted by kristin miltner on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:57:00 PST

holy home mother of domestic bliss

so i think Cliff and i just bought a house. i am FREAKING OUT freaking out freaking out. It's a few blocks from where we are now, on a quiet street (pretty quiet for oakland) that dead ends. We have a...
Posted by kristin miltner on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:01:00 PST

um, but not all of them though

not eveyone in that audience is a douchebag of course, just the ones that only appreciate the fact that you didn't go too crazy with the crazy weird sounds. conformists.
Posted by kristin miltner on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:06:00 PST

extreme namedroppers

why do people need to list every cool person they play with in their bio as if that's what makes them a good musician?
Posted by kristin miltner on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:42:00 PST

SFEMF SFEMF SFEMF! Aug 10 - 13.

SFEMF 2006!!!!check it out, you guys, the schedule is here!http://www.sfemf.org/schedule2006.htmlthis will be a great series of shows. we're working with RML this year. it's really convenient now that...
Posted by kristin miltner on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:57:00 PST