Jairus Miller

Jairus Miller made music from the age of six. After (involuntarily) taking piano lessons throughout his childhood, he picked up a guitar at age 13 and began to make noise of a different sort. The desire to expand his spectrum of musical expression eventually materialized in the recording of sounds on 4-track cassette tapes, and that turn led to the acquisition and use of music software on a desktop computer.

Growing up on an island off the coast of Maine in the United States, Jairus was exposed to a multiplicity of natural and synthetic waveforms, a discourse which profoundly shaped the direction and nuances of his electronic music. For Jairus, the pursuit of new digitally generated and manipulated sounds was circular, and inexorably linked with the analog realities such sounds represent.

In 1998, Jairus first began releasing music online under the moniker "Isotope 99", and later under the guise of "5i". In 2004 the Australian label Infamous Light Recordings released his four-track "Feng Shui" EP, which drew support from many internationally-known DJs.

His releases appeared on labels including Toes in the Sand, Source of Gravity, Pure Substance, Adjust Recordings, Hunya Munya, and Pacific Front. His music was featured in production music libraries, national television broadcasts, live online webcasts, and regional music reviews.

Jairus worked to transcend geographical and genre boundaries and to forge a connection with the global electronic music community. His compositions reached a wide variety of listeners while retaining a thematic commonality of purpose and execution. In Jairus's music, machines facilitated sounds springing forth from the heart and the mind.

Released Ever After (HMDIGITAL001) on Hunya Munya Digital in 2005.