Miller music

Hi.  I’m Russell Miller.  This is one of the few places on the ‘net where I will use my real name.  Maybe someday I will post a pic.  Now is not that time.

Music has always been a passion of mine.  From a child, music has always been a very important part of my life.  I was raised on religious chorale music and classical pieces, though as I grew up my tastes expanded, and now I like most anything but hip-hop and rap.

Because music has always been so important to me, sometimes it’s the best – or even only – way to express some things that need to be expressed.  So, I write music.  And when I’ve finished writing music, I’ll put it here for you to perform and enjoy, hopefully.  I don’t claim to be the world’s best composer.  But I am a composer, which is more than people that don’t compose can say.  To paraphrase Florence Foster Jenkins, people may say I couldn’t compose, but they can never say I didn’t compose.

I use finale.  It’s what I used in college thirty years ago (I feel old) and what I use now.  It’s got pretty much everything I need except for the community aspects of musescore.  So I’ll use musescore for that purpose, but I prefer finale.

In my time when I’m not composing, I’m a computer engineer by trade, but I also study Japanese (J-pop and anison are very interesting genres musically – some of the time), play piano (sometimes professionally), watch anime (don’t judge), and have many other interests as well.