Dweller on the Threshold is Ben Miller’s most ambitious jazz project to date — a body of work forged in the pressure of alchemical struggle. It’s music written from inside the fight: wrestling with skepticism, confronting shadow, and pushing through the thresholds that separate collapse from renewal. The pieces don’t gesture toward those experiences — they come straight out of them.

The project unfolds across varied orchestrational landscapes and ensemble shapes, expanding and contracting depending on what the moment demands. Some works surge with dense, layered power while others strip down to reveal what’s brittle, uncertain, or newly forming. Drawing from a broad pool of musicians, drawn from Rochester’s community and across the world, freedom gives the project its shifting voice and its sense of lived intensity.

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