Oliver Miller 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 worked closely over a 10 year period with the composer Georges Lentz and architect Glenn Murcutt recording and developing the Cobar Sound Chapel, a permanent sound installation recently constructed in the Australian outback.

Early 2019 Oliver directed Electric, a 23-minute short film focused on the world’s first experiments with shock therapy in Italy 1938. Starring Socratis Otto and Nicholas Hope, it screened in festivals in London as well as in Italy and Australia.

Over 2019 and 2020 Oliver worked extensively directing and creating filmed performances of music and dance including work with Synergy, Taikoz, The Australian String Quartet, Pinchgut Opera, Bandaluzia and The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.

Oliver has been commissioned by a number of Australian contemporary music and arts organisation to create experimental films including Read/Write Error (2018) for Ensemble Offspring and Video Tunnels (2019) for Backstage music. He recently was commissioned by Fiona Hill and Alicia Crossley to create an experimental film titled Into the Darkness completed in 2022. 

In addition to composing music for his own ensembles, Oliver also composes music for film, and has recently created scores for a range of AFTRS graduate films, including What do you see (2019) which premiered at Frameline Film Festival (San Francisco) and Queer Screen Sydney Gay Mardi Gras Film Festival.

Oliver was principal cello with the Australian Youth Orchestra and has since performed extensively as a cello player with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Sydney Philharmonia. He has worked with a diverse range of artists including Delta Goodrem, Veronique Serret, Christian Winther and Kim Moyes of the Presets. He is currently completing work on the first studio album for his quartet Bungarribee, and will be touring the album nationally with fellow band members Gary Daley, Paul Cutlan and Chloe Kim, through a grant received through the Sydney Improvising Music Association.

In 2018 Oliver completed a Masters in Arts of the Screen at the Australian Film Television and Radio School and he continues to develop a cycle of films based around the life of the Australian poet Francis Webb.