About

Description

"Michael Chocholak is a sound shaman. His music transforms you, carries you away to other realities, other dimensions and other states of consciousness. If you are looking for a Bardo preview, this is the soundtrack." - Misha Nogha.

Electronic and electroacoustic soundscapes. Abstract. Visceral and imagick. Structured improvisations. Surreal architectures. Alternate mythologies. Although initially a guitarist, any sound source is considered a potential instrument from skin drum to pc.

After moving across country to Oregon in the late 60's, Michael spent a year secluded in an abandoned 19th century house surrounded by cattle bones, plow discs, pieces of wood and glass and other sonic objects suspended from the ceiling, running 20 foot tape loops on multiple recorders, and circuit bending sound processors out of discarded electronics. He emerged to front a number of ensembles playing original and improvisational music and issued over 25 independent releases including collaborations with cyberpunk writer and rocker John Shirley, German electronic music pioneer Conrad Schnitzler, Canadian text/sound composer and performer Richard Truhlar, Australian sound artist Rik Rue, the Schreck electroacoustic Ensemble, poets David Memmott and Mel Buffington, the garage band Leather Smile, world fusion vocalist Pandia, surreal transformationalist Richard Dunlap, and his wife, writer and poet Misha Nogha. His work has been featured by Peripheral Music, echOmusic, Howteck Industries, Underwhich Audiographics, Insane Music, Whole Earth, Camera Obscura, Generations Unlimited, Harvestworks and Realization Recordings. His current release will is on Triple Bath entitled Alveromancy.

Michael Chocholak - Alveromancy at Triple Bath

In addition to studio and live performance, he has composed for film, video, graphics, dance, theatre, literature, poetry, installations, and the internet. Believing in the celebration and free interchange of musics and sound, he surrounds his home with kinetic sound sculptures and has released over 100 free mp3 tracks to the planet.

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Hey - thx to everyone for posting the great music.

Network

city

Cove

state/country

OR, US

Custom

quotes

"Que la musique sonne" - Edgard Varese, "Without music life would be a mistake" - Friedrich Nietzsche, "Music is the path of revelation" - Alexander Scriabin, "I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I write the music. Afterward it is the listener who must experiment." - Edgard Varese, "You don't need a mouth to communicate, you don't need rules to create. Anything is a potential instrument. Play it." - MC "I'm addicted to music... " - Miles Davis - yeah, dig that

Band Members

myself and occasionally the usual suspects

Influences

listened to Beethoven and the Russian giants while in utero. later as a child I listened to the shortwave radio for hours at a time. started playing the piano at four. my muses are the invisible and the resonant worlds of sound

Website

http://www.eoni.com/%7Emishamez/badge2.htm

Entertainment

music

Edgard Varese, Miles Davis, John Fahey, Jimi Hendrix, Ludwig von Beethoven and lots of stops in between which would certainly include all of my co-conspirators

artists

Pablo Neruda, Max Ernst, William Blake, Theodore Roethke, Salvador Dali, Basho, John Cage, Herman Melville, Wassily Kandinsky, Misha Nogha, Phil Dick, Hayao Miyazaki, Jorge Luis Borges, Giorgio de Chirico, Edgar Allen Poe, Margaret Bourke-White, Cordwainer Smith, Alexander Calder, Kobo Abe, Moebius, Ray Bradbury, Naum Gabo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, W. Eugene Smith, Robinson Jeffers, Enki Bilal, JG Ballard, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, radio waves, wind, water, wood, metal

movies

Blade Runner, Brazil, Apocalypse Now, Dead Man, Wings of Desire, Orpheus, The Seventh Seal, Ran, Metropolis, Children of Men, Videodrome, Dr Strangelove, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fantasia, Plan 9 From Outer Space, THX 1138, Fitzcarraldo, Pi, Baraka, The Last Battle, Stalker

tv shows

don't watch tv

actors

Betty Boop, Gerald McBoing Boing, Bugs Bunny