Miles Brown


Miles Brown is an Australian theremin player, composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist. Best known for his work with Australian instrumental electronic act The Night Terrors, Brown has also performed with Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Goblin, Black Mountain, Mick Harvey, Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto, Bardo Pond, Heirs and The Narcoleptor.

Biography

Brown was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and developed his practice in the experimental art rock scene of Melbourne. He is a student of Russian theremin virtuosa Lydia Kavina, the first cousin twice removed of Léon Theremin.
With his band The Night Terrors, Brown has explored the theremin as a lead instrument in an electronic progressive rock scenario. The Night Terrors have released three albums: Back To Zero, Spiral Vortex and Pavor Nocturnus: Composition for Grand Organ, Theremin, Electronics and Percussion, three EPs: The Night Terrors, Lightless and Monster / Lasers For Eyes, and have toured Europe and Australia with Hawkwind, Goblin, Melt-Banana, Serena-Maneesh and Black Mountain. The Night Terrors are often described as horror film soundtrack music.
Brown has also worked extensively with Australian experimental industrial band Heirs, touring Europe and Australia supporting Alcest, Primordial and Årabrot, and contributing to the records Fowl and Hunter.
In May 2014 Brown was commissioned by the City of Melbourne to compose an album of music for the Melbourne Town Hall's Grand pipe organ, the largest grand romantic organ in the Southern Hemisphere. Pavor Nocturnus: Composition for Grand Organ, Theremin, Electronics and Percussion was performed by The Night Terrors, recorded on Friday the 13th of July and launched on Halloween 31 October 2014. The album was released by the label Twisted Nerve Australia, a joint imprint between Dual Planet and UK producer / music archivist Andy Votel. A special edition was also produced for UK cult movie soundtrack label The Death Waltz Recording Company, home to film composers such as John Carpenter, Goblin, Alan Howarth, Fabio Frizzi, Ennio Morricone and Clint Mansell.
Miles Brown’s debut solo album Séance Fiction was released in December 2015 as a co-release between Death Waltz, American film culture specialists Mondo and It Records in Australia. His solo material explores the theremin and analogue synthesiser in the realms of dark wave, gothic disco and cosmic electronics.
In 2019 Brown debuted The Narcoleptor - his new experimental collaboration with classical harpist and vocalist Mary Doumany. The Narcoleptor 12" EP was released on Brown's own label Nosferatunes which was launched simultaneously.. Brown also released a new solo single Shudder Speed, the first selection from his upcoming solo album The Gateway which will be released on Death Waltz Originals in 2020..

Discography

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