Minimal Man

It's too easily the case that so many artists who came out of the late-'70s punk uproar -- and those of the other parallel scenes already coalescing at that time -- aren't as readily remembered or appreciated because they couldn't be specifically pigeonholed. Such was the case with Californian Patrick Miller, aka Minimal Man, whose recorded work throughout the '80s spanned everything from white noise to calm, ambient reflections, scattered among a variety of labels. Born in Glendale in 1952, Miller, originally a student in art and design, moved to San Francisco in the late '70...