Miles Friday
At EMS May 26–June 8, 2025
Miles Jefferson Friday is a sound artist and composer who aims to construct communities where sound can serve as a site for critical inquiry to be realized, not just in the abstract, but in practice. Within this guiding principle, Miles’s creative output acts as a form of project-based research, where he utilizes music technologies and engages with theoretical scholarship as a means of exploring personal subjectivities of auditory reception, re-thinking instruments and/as objects, and proposing ways in which sound-based practice can operate more dynamically and
equitably. Creating work in acoustic, electronic, digital, installation, and instrument-building based media, Miles aims to treat music composition not as a singular, codified medium, but as a methodology that has the capacity to house a wide spectrum of artistic inquiries in sound, technology, and related arts.
Miles’s works have been performed across the United States and internationally by ensembles such as the AIR Contemporary Music Collective (China), Athens State Orchestra (Greece), Ensemble Dal Niente (USA), Ensemble InterContemporain (France), Ensemble Suono Giallo (Italy), the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Russia), the Tacet(i) Ensemble (Thailand), the Tönkunstler Orchestra (Austria), the Wet Ink Ensemble (USA), and Yarn/Wire (USA). Additionally, Miles has exhibited acousmatic works and multimedia installations at festivals such as the SinusTon Festival (Germany), the International Computer Music Conference (Ireland), the Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium (Thailand), and the SEAMUS Conference (USA). Miles holds a BM in music composition from Indiana University (2016), an MA in music composition from the Eastman School of Music (2018), an MFA in music composition from Cornell University (2021), and a DMA from Cornell University (2023). Miles is currently an Assistant Professor of Digital Music at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
