BASSIST  |  COMPOSER  |  IMPROVISER

“One of Los Angeles’ most fearless improvisers,” Miller Wrenn is a Los Angeles-based bassist and composer-improviser who “brings technical mastery and fresh energy to every performance.”(Vernacular New Music). He works primarily in the fields of new, creative, and improvised music, in addition to his work as a composer for film. His most recent film scores can be heard on the 2024 film Exposure (dir. Peter Cannon) and the upcoming thriller Haze (dir. Matthew Fifer). 

 

He leads a variety of groups, including the Miller Wrenn Large Ensemble, which specializes in performances of “conduction,” a tradition of conducted improvisation developed by Butch Morris, and the chamber ensemble wave’particle’wave, which performs his works inspired by/derived from energetic models in nature including gravitational/orbital systems and radioactive decay.

 

He performs and records frequently in a wide variety of contexts and has been fortunate to do so with artists/groups such as Vinny Golia, Lauren Baba, Eyvind Kang, Tina Raymond, Kris Tiner, Steph Richards, Dan Rosenboom, Alex Cline, Vicki Ray, GE Stinson, The Industry Opera, Bridge to Everywhere, and many others. 

 

Miller has been Bass Performance faculty at Bakersfield College since 2019.