Oliver Miller hails from Sydney Australia and has led an eclectic career as a filmmaker, cello player, pianist, composer, arranger, sound engineer, music producer, antique restorer, and photographer, and is a co-founder of the improvising ensembles The NOISE string quartet, Amphibious and Bungarribee. Oliver has worked closely with composer Georges Lentz on String Quartet(s), a 7- hour work for pre-recorded string quartet permanently played in the Australian outback in the Cobar Sound Chapel, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Glenn Murcutt.
Oliver has been commissioned by a number of Australian contemporary music and arts organisation to create experimental films including Read/Write Error for Ensemble Offspring and Video Tunnels for Backstage music. In 2017 Oliver created a 40 minute video backing -Within/Without, for a performance of The NOISE string quartet at the Brisbane Powerhouse for the Restrung Festival.
Early 2019 saw the completion of Electric, a 23-minute narrative short film focused on the world's first experiments with shock therapy in Italy 1938. It draws its unique text from a radio-play by Francis Webb, Australia's great genius of poetry.
Oliver develops music for other director's films and advertising projects, and currently is in the process of creating a feature length film based on three poetic sequences by the poet Francis Webb.