Michael Chocholak   -  Profile

Artist/Band Profile: Any sound source is considered a potential instrument. What you'll find here are electronic and electroacoustic soundscapes. Abstract. Visceral and imagick. Structured improvisations. Surreal architectures. Alternate mythologies.

I have 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, surreal transformationalist Richard Dunlap, poets David Memmott and Mel Buffington, the garage band Leather Smile, and my wife, Misha Nogha. Internet collaborations include Brillman, David Farewell, Christopher Orczy, and Men From San Diego.

My music has been released in all recorded and broadcast format, and I have composed for film, video, graphics, dance, theatre, literature, poetry, as well as studio and live performance.

Music Style: Abstract electronic & electroacoustic

Reviews: It conjures visions of superstrings twined around a quantum fork in ten-dimensional space-time." - Keyboard Magazine "Dark, cold, eerie, and beautiful" - EAR "Conception and execution are grasped onto with sweaty hands... there's no turning back" - Gajoob "Some of the most evocative soundscapes you could imagine" - Eurock "Dark and moody music that wraps you in tightly like a wet sheet" - Factsheet Five "This evocative mix conjures up pictures that range from somber beauty to sobering brutality. Here is ambient music of an involving, organic nature, thick with activity... a wholly human approach" - Sound Choice Magazine "Positively stunning" - Option Magazine “A Salvador Dali of music.” - Gypsy “Heaven sent.” - Glenn Branca “Crazy” - Thurston Moore “It conjures up visions.” - Brian Aldiss “Pure heat, atavistic futurity.” - Ferret “It casts a long shadow over my inner ear.” - Rik Rue “Audio-cinematic cortical opera.” - Richard Truhlar “Takes the cutting edge of electronic music and slislices through your cornea.” - Joey Zone “When the last song was finished, all the birds fell dead from the sky.” - Richard Schindler

Influences: Edgard Varese, Miles Davis, Pablo Neruda, Max Ernst, radio waves, wind, water, wood, metal, the sonic world at large.

Studio / Music Equipment: Skin drum to pc.