He is a professor and has been for many years the Chair of the Recording Arts Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Milicevic came to the United States in 1986 to study with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he received his M.A.

After Wesleyan, he went to study at the University of Miami in Florida, where he received his PhD in computer and experimental music composition in 1991.

In the nineties, Milicevic has concentrated on live interactive electronic music composition utilizing hyperinstruments.

[4] In the former Yugoslavia, Milicevic (using the alias Igor Krik) produced the 1985 pop band, VALENTINO, that sold platinum.