EducationBM University of Iowa
MM DePaul University
About
Thomas Miller was the director of DePaul's Sound Recording
Technology program, until his retirement in June of 2025
. He is a twenty-year veteran of the Chicago recording
industry with credits that range from The Blues Brothers to Placido
Domingo. His interest in recording and sound transformation found a
compatible technology in 1985 with the development of the NED
Synclavier, and he began programming sound design for albums and
commercials. An avid creator and collector of sounds, Miller created the
Universal Sound Library, a timbre library for the Synclavier that was
marketed worldwide. His fascination with timbral evolution, surround
sound, and multimedia has led him to compose electroacoustic works for
electronics, percussion, processed voices and projected images. Miller
is a graduate of the University of Iowa and DePaul University with
degrees in composition.
Watch Professor Miller’s third silent film score, Suite from Pandora’s Box,
for wind ensemble, percussion, and electronics. This score, first
premiered at Dartmouth College in 2010, was recorded live in concert by
the DePaul Wind Symphony under the direction of Dr. Erica Neidlinger
with engineering by Dan Steinman and Sound Recording Technology
students.