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  • JULY 2010
  • Bandcamp !
    All my albums (the official and the not so official albums) can be listened to (for free) or downloaded for a small fee, in a variety of formats, on my Bandcamp site
  • The Absurd Webcast
    Michael Frank's The Absurd performed live on Sunday, 18th of July at 6pm (Berlin time) in a Berlin recording studio. The Absurd is a band founded in the autumn of 1984 in Cologne. It has a constantly rotating line-up led by Michael Frank. Now they continued their celebration of their silver jubilee with 16 musicians in the Andere Baustelle studio with songs about the flying Robert and riding elevators in a mixture of hard rock, free jazz and psychedelia.
    Here's the blog entry with photos and videos
  • JUNE 2010
  • Rainy Loop for Kim Flint
    Kim was the co-inventor of the Echoplex Digital Pro and the founder of the Loopers Delight web community that means so much to many liveloopers around the world. He was tragically killed in a bicycle accident. Here's a rainy loop video that I made for him
  • FEBRUARY 2010
  • Experimental Guitar Evening II
    Craig Green, Michael Frank, and me did another evening with guitar experiments on February 27, 2010, at the LOFT in Cologne. Here's my blog entry about last February's evening
  • Sound is Art
    Thanks to sound artist Margaret Noble for publishing some of my field recordings (from nature and technology) on her wonderful Sound is Art website. Sounds published so far: Slide Show Jam - Wind Turbines - Massage Chair Groove (by Matthias Ebbinghaus) - Not an animal - Arborea Sardinia under water
  • NOVEMBER 2009
  • Klang-Spiel-Raum loop improvisation in a church
    Another livelooping duo improvisation evening with livelooping multiinstrumentalist Uwe Schumacher on November 25 at St. Franziskus Kirche, Adolfstr. 77, Bonn.
  • OCTOBER 2009
  • Y2K9 Livelooping the West Coast
    This year's Y2K9 International Live Looping Festival in Santa Cruz, California, finally contained some Michael Peters performances - I felt very honored to be listed as a headliner on top of the list of ca. 60 livelooping acts that played on the world's largest annual livelooping event which saw its 8th installment this year. "October 14-20, 2009 - 56 artists from 9 countries in 6 days in 3 cities"
    I played on stages in San Jose, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz. More here
  • SEPTEMBER 2009
  • Golden Parachute CD presentation
    Markus Apitius presented his new solo CD Golden Parachute at Dinnerclub, Cologne, on Friday Sept 11. I played along on some of the pieces.
    As the previous CDs, the new CD contains a mix of various styles of songwriting. I play a solo (that I am proud of) during the climax of the 13 minute progressive/Canterbury influenced opus maximus called "Epiphany 74", a piece about an unusual day in the life of SF writer Philip K. Dick.
  • JUNE 2009
  • Livelooping Festival in Rome
    The second European Livelooping Festival this year was on May 6 in Rome.
    Blog entry, recordings and video will follow.
    photos | my "behind the scenes" video (no concert footage)
  • MAY 2009
  • Livelooping Festivals European Livelooping Festivals
    I played on the June 30 European Livelooping Festivals in Antwerp. The recording is available, videos will soon be available.
    Blog entry | photos | recordings
  • Totally Wired Totally Wired
    I played on this electronic music festival in Cologne.
  • APRIL 2009
  • Impossible Party
    A CD release party took place at LOFT in Cologne, celebrating hyperfunction, the new label for algorithmic music that I set up together with Markus Reuter, and Impossible Music, the first CD release on this label. Read the blog entry about this evening
  • FEBRUARY 2009
  • Barbados Experimental Guitar Evening
    Michael Frank, Craig Green and me played solo and ensemble improvisations in Cologne's LOFT where I staged the Livelooping Festival last May. Read more about this event and listen to my set on my blog
  • Singing Frogs, Squeaking Trees
    A beautiful CD with my field recordings from Barbados is now available from Grünrekorder.
  • DECEMBER 2008
  • Menekjola Modern
    Cut-Ups and Collages were the topic of the 2008 advent calendar by the wonderful band The Absurd. Of course, I contributed something ... a snippet from a very strange live concert that took place ... in the future!
  • NOVEMBER 2008
  • Klang-Spiel-Raum
    This ongoing live improvisation music project is run by multi-instrumentalist Uwe Schumacher. On 26. November, we did an evening with improvised music together. The concert took place in a church. My first chance to play churchscapes! We had big fun and the audience did too
    Photos and recordings here
  • OCTOBER 2008
  • Mellotron Playlist
    While ordering the new M-Tron Pro virtual mellotron from GForce Software, I thought I could put together a playlist with tron based tunes that I've created over the years. It contains some jingles from the MY2K diary and some tunes for CT-Collective projects, plus a chord study from 1993 that I played on samples that I recorded myself from a real mellotron. Have fun!
  • Les Vampires
    Cologne's AZUD project showed this 1915 silent film series with live music accompaniment from many different musicians and bands. On 26. October, Michael Frank's band The Absurd played improvised music for the 8th episode
  • AUGUST 2008
  • Das Hertz on Myspace
    In addition to the regular Das Hertz website, this psychedelic/krautrock/nujazz improvisation quartet goes networking on myspace now. If you're on myspace too, please add them to your friends list and send friendly comments! There will always be fresh outtakes from the latest sessions and concerts
  • Propeller Shred Guitar
    Here's a noisy track from the May gig with The Absurd
  • JULY 2008
  • Session with Re Re Re
    Re Re Re & friends are several musicians from Cologne and Berlin who invited me for a free improvisation session. I think the results are enjoyable enough to present them here.
  • MAY / JUNE 2008
  • 7-11 Afloat and Indistinguishable
    Here are two short lo-fi slo-mo minimalist videos that I made on the fly and that you might like:
    7-11 afloat, featuring a floating plastic bag that I filmed in the Stockholm harbour, and Indistinguishable, several minutes of slowly moving light reflections, with a soundtrack that is more than 20 years old ...
    Please leave a feedback on the youtube pages if you like these movies
  • Berlin Livelooping Festival
    Livelooping Cologne A week after the festival in Cologne, on the 6th of June, Rick and Chris Walker, Fabio, and myself were in Berlin to play at the 2nd livelooping festival there (the 1st one was in 2003).
  • Cologne Livelooping Festival
    The first international livelooping festival in Cologne was a success. I was joined on stage by this stellar line-up:
    Rick Walker, Markus Reuter, Craig Green, Michael Frank, Dirk Serries (Fear Falls Burning), Fabio Anile, Harald Sack-Ziegler, Stefan Tiedje, Luis Angelo. These 10 very different loop musicians created 5 hours of ambient, electronic, and experimental music. All information (in German) on www.livelooping.de.

    A video of a soundscape that I played on that evening is on Youtube
  • FEBRUARY 2008
  • Lark Machine
    CT-Birds-and-Men A new Chain Tape Project called "Birds and Men" contains a new little Michael Peters track called "Lark Machine" that combines modified lark recordings with modified string quartet samples
  • New Digital Distribution
    Thanks to the effort of my friends Markus Reuter and Bernhard Wöstheinrich, all of my albums are now available as mp3 and lossless flac downloads on Musiczeit
  • JANUARY 2008
  • Very Short Films
    Time Stands Still Very Fast Michael Peters goes video? Is this a new development? More of these videos will certainly come by and by. Keep checking my youtube page, or simply subscribe.
    This one is very short - less than a minute. It is called "Time Stands Still Very Fast" and shows how the world looks like from a highspeed train. I played the soundtrack in 1988, on a Casio SK-1, Terry Riley style
  • DECEMBER 2007
  • The Absurd Person Singular
    This year's edition of The Absurd advent calendar presents to you various members of The Absurd as soloists - performances recorded within the framework of The Absurd or as part of individual solo projects. Apart from featuring the considerable talents of the singers and players this calendar serves as a reminder of how much fun it is to play and interact with with friends in a band.
  • NOVEMBER 2007
  • Norwich Festival of Live Looping
    Norwich Loop Festival November 17, Norwich Arts Centre:
    "Various performers. Michael Peters comes all the way from Germany with his intriguing brew of guitar melody and experimentalism. Ambient Duo Darkroom are joined by electro-percussion genius Andy Booker. Matt Stevens plays it jazzy. Stephen Scott is chilled out and melodic, and of course Andy Butler will be conjuring beats and mayhem from just his guitar."
    Details and mp3 downloads here
  • Improvizone London
    The first date of my November mini tour of the UK was a live session in London with Improvizone - Andrew Booker (electric drums), Os (keyboards and loops), Michael Bearpark (guitar) - listen to my 2006 internet session with Michael Bearpark. The gig took place at Improvizone's new venue, Ember, on November 14.
    Here are mp3 downloads of the gig (search for "2007-11" and "Michael Peters") and photos

  • Could Bes and Never Beens
    New songs and solos by Michael Frank and other members of The Absurd were performed in the Wundertüte in Cologne on November 9th.
  • AUGUST 2007
  • at das kleine fieldrecording festival, August 2007 Das kleine Field Recording Festival
    I performed on this field recording festival in Berlin on August 18, mixing midified guitar and guitar controlled samples of field recordings in a way I haven't done it before.
    "Michael Peters came with his underwater recordings and street voices from Sardegna, that were treated every now and then by his guitar playing. Treated means that a lot of technical and electronic things happen between the touch of the strings and the output by the loudspeakers. (...) (His) set seemed to be reigned by the principles of Aeolus; some of his sounds moved as if they were picked up by the wind and thrown around, then moved back to silence again, but never could they escape this chaotic play that made your attention slide from one to another place." (Rinus van Alebeek)
  • JULY 2007
  • More Minutes Per Hour
    Open improvisation group Das Hertz had quite an energetic session on July 19.
    Here are some impressions from this evening, starring Guido Erfen and Wolli Diekmann as the relentless rhythm group, the amazing Martin Ziegler on Fender Rhodes, and myself on guitar playing with my new Jon Hassell type harmonizer setting that I love so much
  • Website relaunch
    For how many years did I live with a preliminary webpage? The new website is now no longer preliminary ... finally, it lists all of my projects (currently, 25) in a coherent way ...
    And there are hours of music to listen to!
  • JUNE 2007
  • at a gig with Markus Apitius, June 2007 In God's Machine
    I played guitar and guitar-mellotron on some pieces (as special guest) at the presentation of "Los Angeles", the new CD of Markus Apitius, on June 7 in Cologne. A very nice gig with a great audience. Markus is a great singer and composer - check out his music!
  • Vox Novus 60x60 project
    Several 1-minute compositions I did for the Vox Novus 60x60 project were part of a 3-hour Afternoon New Music special on WKCR, New York
  • More Soaring in Circles
    Three more ambient keyboard works (32 minutes total) I did back in the mid-eighties can now downloaded from Burning Shed. They are actually not part of the "Soaring in Circles" cycle but independent and quite different pieces from roughly the same time. I cannot deny the Eno/Bowie influence, but they stand for themselves and I still like them a lot.
  • APRIL 2007
  • Paper Music
    A CT-Collective project with paper music is now online - ten pieces composed using only sounds generated by the folding, squashing, tearing, flapping (etc) of paper. Contributors were "allowed" to process the sounds in any way they wished.
    All tracks can be listened via a webstream, or downloaded.
    The project contains a paper-plus-granular-synthesis track by me.


  • MARCH 2007
  • Time Steps: Music for Paintings
    Berlin based collage painter Manfred Gipper exhibits some of his recent work in the Sensenhammer in Leverkusen.
    I contributed a sound installation, actually a new custom made 38-minute piece, based on the MY2K and Cut-Up Radio recordings that inspired some of the paintings. Most of the piece however consists of field recordings and treated pieces of music.
    In most of the "Zeitreisen" (time travels) paintings, buildings are a central element. The sound installation can be listened to as the soundtrack for an imaginary walk around these buildings. It is played over speakers during the vernissage on MARCH 25, 11-13 am, after that you are invited to listen to it "on demand" - a CD walkman and headphones are provided. The exhibition can be visited until May 6th.
  • The Absurd live
    The Absurd played short duet improvisations and single versions of their music during the March 10 Boulevard Boudoir in Cologne
  • Kunstbahnhof
    Horst Becker used sections from Soaring in Circles for his new installations at the Bahnhof Königswinter Kunsttage
  • DECEMBER 2006
  • "Das Hertz" recordings
    Three CDs worth of free improvisations of the, er, nu-jazz inspired "Das Hertz" are now ready for download here and here.
    The first CD contains the "power trio" version - drums (Wolli Diekmann) and bass (Guido Erfen) plus my guitar playing - all keyboard sounds that can be heard are triggered from the midified guitar. Everyone's favorite is the 16 minute "Hunting the Drama Waltz" - give it a listen!
    The second CD (double CD, in fact) features Fender Rhodes / Minimoog maestro Martin Ziegler (so many of the keyboard sounds are real keyboards this time) and occasional guest Michael Frank on guitar. The quartet continually dives into unknown territory, sometimes more, sometimes less successfully, sometimes in the rehearsal room, sometimes on stage.
  • Snow and Ice
    Sounds of my steps in snow, recorded near my home in 2002, are now online as part of an interesting Gruenrekorder audio project
  • Absurd on stage
    Highly recommended:
    Michael Frank's band The Absurd will be on stage again. We'll play avant-rock compositions and improvisations:
    Dec. 4: Blue Shell, Cologne
    Dec. 23: Wundertüte, Cologne

    Tea For Two - Tea For All:
    Check out the
    Absurd Advent Calendar 2006 !!
    You'll find some duet sounds of Michael Frank and myself behind the 6th December door ...
  • NOVEMBER 2006
  • Underwater Field Recordings
    The online part of a field recording festival in Berlin features some of my underwater recordings
  • OCTOBER 2006
  • Kyberloopfest at Y2K6
    One afternoon of this year's International Live Looping Festival in Santa Cruz, CA was a cyber jam - a series of internet sessions of local players in Santa Cruz with remote players somewhere else on the planet, using the Ninjam platform.
    I played remotely with Swedish multiinstrumentalist Per Boysen and Swiss guitarist Bernhard Wagner - our group was called the "Screaming Tone Deaf Donkeys" :-), and no, we don't play on weddings.
    Listen to the ninjam sessions here
  • Chambers
    I participated in a performance of Alvin Lucier's Chambers during the Kölner Musiknacht on October 14. The piece was performed in an old court building with a magnificent marble hall and staircase - a place with possibly the longest reverb in town. 32 musicians, walking in 4 groups of 8, carried various sound sources in various portable containers, playing with the different resonances of room and container. I played cracklebox inside an old rubber boot :-)
  • Placard Headphone Festival
    A Cut-Up Radio set was part of the Placard Headphone Festival on October 8 in Maastricht. The whole festival could also be listened to via a live stream, and commented on via an ICQ chat. The chat was beamed on a large canvas in the festival location so the audience could read live comments of remote listeners while listening. Way cool!
  • Trepanation
    Some of my field recordings have been put to very good use on Markus Reuter's wonderful new CD "Trepanation"
  • SEPTEMBER 2006
  • Travel to the Moon
    My little contribution to Fabio Anile's forthcoming CT-Speech project can already be downloaded and listened to. Fasten your seat belts, this takes Kennedy's 1961 space race announcement and morphs it directly into a moon rocket which takes you to the 1969 moon landing in less than 4 minutes!
  • AUGUST 2006
  • 10 years of Loopers's Delight
    Kim Flint's website and mailing list for all looping musicians is 10 years old on September 1st. Many of them (including myself) have contributed a 30 second looping clip for a reunion page
  • Das Hertz
    Two gigs for this "bopping little dance band" coming up on AUGUST 25 and 27 in Cologne. Contact me for details
  • JULY 2006
  • Wind Powered Works
    Two field recordings of windfarms that I did in the Mojave Desert and in northern Germany were part of this web radio show about wind:
    GIANT EAR))) Wind Powered Works
  • Das Hertz
    I'm currently playing midified sustainer guitar with Wolli (drums) and Guido (bass) and hopefully Martin (keys) in a little experimental rock band tentatively called Das Hertz. I think already in August there are gigs coming up but there are no pieces yet! Well I hope the universe will provide for some soon. I'm sure we won't disappoint our future audience
  • JUNE 2006
  • My latest toy is an underwater microphone, in combination with the wonderful Edirol R-09 solid state recorder. I had big fun recording strange noises from lakes, streams, and the ocean. Examples
  • MAY 2006
  • "Cut-Up Radio" Live (Amsterdam)
    tuesday may 9th and wednesday may 10th, 12h-14h :: raudio live :: at the Kunstvlaai, Westergasfabriekterrein, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). With Wouter van Veldhoven, man manly, Michael Peters and 0ok01 ...
    ... listen to some of it here!
    (Amsterdam link at bottom of that page)
    Harold's blog entry of this event
  • APRIL 2006
  • "Cut-Up Radio" Live (Cologne)
    I did a "cut-up radio" performance during the Freiraum festival in Cologne's Rhenania building on APRIL 28
  • Impossible Music
    Back in 1996, I connected my HOP chaotic attractors via midi to digital keyboards, and I spent an enjoyable day with Matthias Ebbinghaus, improvising with this unlikely hybrid. Matthias has recently rediscovered the recording, and we are now restoring it. The result will be a CD called 'Impossible Music for Piano and Percussion', and we are looking for labels that specialize in algorithmic music. Ideas anyone?
  • Park Raudio, background info
    Harold Schellinx writes about my contributions to his seventh Park Raudio web radio installation in the third issue of his 100+ new (r)audio philes ... series
  • MAR 2006
  • One-minute-vacation
    An unusual recording that I did in the Siena cathedral a couple of years ago is now featured in Aaron Ximm's wonderful one-minute vacation series (MARCH 20 entry).
  • Tonlabor
    The Tonlabor crew - Dr. E (Matthias Ebbinghaus), Dr. K (Ortrud Kegel) and myself (Dr. P) - turned the stage into a highly scientific sound lab again, with the help of many unusual instruments - including the polyphonic photo theremin from hell that Leander Reininghaus has built for me!
  • FEB 2006
  • Park Raudio
    Several rather experimental tracks (a song of love, cutupradio20060129, gumowski-mira, not an animal, slidescan_times16) are currently part of Park's Raudio 07, a continuous online radio stream of 'pure sound tracks' by several artists, hosted by Harold Schellinx
  • Camera Obscura
    is back! The CD that I did in the mid-eighties (yes, originally an LP) with my friends Hans Niederberger, Urs Fuchs, and Matthias Becker is now available again through the Burning Shed shop. (Listen to the streaming mp3 soundclips!)

    "During the 1980s, Burning Shed artist Michael Peters worked with experimental German band Camera Obscura. A subtle fusion of Ambient, Krautrock and Progressive influences, this CD reissue of the band’s debut album sometimes recalls vintage Fripp/Eno, early Genesis and the delicate atmospherics of Cluster. An understated and underrated curio from a very different time"
  • JAN 2006
  • Harmonium Remix
    Christopher Orczy's remix album project of his Harmonium Diaries, called Altered Days, has been released, and can be listened to (in excerpts) on his website. 13 artists have remixed Christopher's ambient harmonium music in many interesting ways. My track is called 'A Rain Of Grains'. It uses granular synthesis to warp the original harmonium sounds of Christopher's track "September 7th".
  • MySpace
    My new MySpace.com page contains the above mentioned remix for Christopher Orczy, as well as the remix that I did for Centrozoon's 'Ten Versions of America'. Both remixes use lots of granular synthesis, modifying the original sound material without introducing new sounds that weren't part of the original piece.
  • DEC 2005
  • CT-Film
    Gut Ding will Weile haben. The CT-Film compilation project that I started in March is finally finished. It contains 14 tracks for real or imaginary films by 13 musicians, including myself. The album can be streamed or downloaded, complete with artwork, from the CT site.
  • fieldmuzick
    "Biesfeld" (a field recording based composition for the CT-Collective Location Project) is part of Marcus Obst's fieldmuzick WEBCAST
  • NOV 2005
  • Sound Café
    Nov 26: "Biesfeld" (a field recording based composition for the CT-Collective Location Project) were part of this year's Sound Café in Jedburgh, Scotland, a sound art event (curated by James Wyness) which this time concentrated on works related to the concept of 'community'.
  • OCT 2005
  • Soaring in Circles
    Several sections from Soaring in Circles are now online as mp3 downloads at burningshed.com. This vintage synthesizer drone music was improvised and recorded in the early eighties - twenty years ago, my god! - and still sounds fresh and original.
    The first three tracks (listed as "part 1") were part of a 2-hour improvisation for vintage Oberheim and Banana synths, looped using a pair of Revox tape machines.
    The other three tracks ("part 2") were 4-track synth improvisations, inspired by the "Music for Films" Eno and "Low/Heroes" Bowie synth asthetics.
  • AUGUST 2005
  • I did a 30-minute cut-up radio loop improvisation (plus cracklebox solo) at the wonderful 1st International Loopfestival Zürich on AUGUST 25.
    From AUGUST 25th to 27th, 40 live looping artists from several countries performed at the 1st International Loopfestival Zürich in Switzerland. Presenting artists came from the USA, UK, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Croatia, Austria, Czech Republic, and Switzerland. Thanks to Bernhard Wagner who organized this, and to the countless other people who helped making this possible.
    Photos from the festival
  • JULY 2005
  • I created a granular synthesis based remix (called 'A Rain of Grains') of Christopher Orczy's ambient harmonium music due to be released on a forthcoming remix album. Christopher collects daily improvisations on the harmonium into monthly CDs. One wouldn't expect such a variety of beautiful sounds and haunting or soothing athmospheres from an old wooden instrument!
  • MAY 2005
  • Burning Shed offer my Ambient Veloopity album as a series of exclusive mp3s on their website.
    "Comprising pieces taken from the sessions that produced the Escape Veloopity album, ‘Ambient Veloopity’ is a collection of atmospheric explorations performed entirely on guitar and utilising delays in unexpected ways. Echoing Robert Fripp’s more melodic Soundscapes pieces, Bass Communion, and the haunting instrumental work of David Sylvian, ‘Ambient Veloopity’ is an exclusive Burning Shed mp3 that provides a unique insight into Michael Peters’ creative processes."
  • MARCH 2005
  • I have started a new Chain-Tape-Collective project for film music. Looking forward to everybody's submissions - and my own too
  • FEBRUARY 2005
  • Some "Tonlabor" snippets can be heard at Harold Schellinx's current Raudio #3, an online stream of pure sound and experimental music ... more info at his recent SoundBlog
  • DECEMBER 2004
  • December 11: "Tonlabor" (sound lab) - a performance project with Ortrud Kegel and Matthias Ebbinghaus. We did a 17 minute "scientific" performance using crackleboxes, stylophones, theremins, and other unusual instruments. The audience loved it. Thanks to Wolfgang Schmidt who videotaped the gig.

    December 14: The incredible freestyle rock band The Absurd played their 20th anniversary gig. I was there as guest musician and played guitar and mellotron.

    visit The Absurd 2004 advent calendar !!
  • NOVEMBER 2004
  • Started to revamp this site. There's a guestbook now - please post something!
  • OCTOBER 2004
  • The MY2K album is now available from Burning Shed

    Some of my music (including parts of MY2K and of my new Cut-Up Radio project) is now part of a new webradio stream by Amsterdam's P.A.R.K 4DTV media art collective ... the webstream, called Raudio, is hosted by Harold Schellinx ... read his blog about Raudio. My stuff is contained in Raudio #1 and Raudio #2.

    My new CT-Collective website is up !!!
    the new site is coldfusion/database based ... about 20 CDs with more than 370 tracks of 80 artists, all tracks can be downloaded and streamed as mp3 ... most of the music (including 4 of my own tracks) is fairly experimental.
  • SEPTEMBER 2004
  • tracks from the two CT-Location project CDs (including my Biesfeld piece) are presented at Götz Naleppa's Newcomer Werkstatt acoustic art program at Deutschlandradio Berlin
  • AUGUST 2004
  • what a nice surprise - Krispen Hartung sent me a DVD from my computer images and music - thanks bunches!
  • JUNE 2004
  • ... from June 14 to JULY 23, there was a nice exhibition of my computer graphics in my hometown Kürten ...
    ... a nice email rant by Rick Walker ...
    "your photo page website is the most interesting piece of visual artistry that I've seen on the web in a good long while"
    ... for you German science fiction enthusiasts out there, I've set up a small database of German borrowing library science fiction books from the fifties and sixties ... with colorful kitschy cover paintings ... check out SF-Leihbuch-Datenbank
  • MAY 2004
  • I recorded some nice bamboo forest rustling and creaking, and a bunch of whistling frogs on a Caribbean island ... they might well end up digitized and treated ...
    also, John Serdy sent me a very nice email, saying about Stretched Landscape, "I have heard this piece on SOMA FM's Streaming Internet Radio station Drone Zone several times now, and it never fails to brighten my workday. Thank you for creating such a wonderful and thoughtful work and contributing it to the world." Oh this goes down well. But wait until John hears the MY2K "beast of terror", as RF would say
  • JANUARY 2004
  • MY2K finally completed!
    a sound diary for the year 2000 - 10 seconds of sound or music for each day of the year
    electric guitar loops - field recordings - granular synthesis treatments - sounds of things - free improvisation ensembles - computer music - sound experiments - miniatures for sampled instruments - rock-jazz guitar tunes - algorithmic music - drum loops - indian music - atmospheres and moods - manipulated voices - vintage keyboard sounds - digital noise - cut-up radio - melodies and songs
    Listen to all 366 sounds of the MY2K sound diary at the MY2K site and if you like it, order the CDR for an uninterrupted one hour sound collage.
    Be sure not to miss Harold Schellinx's review of my MY2K version, and his detailed MY2K chronicle which describes the history, different stages, and outcome of this project - in the year 2000, Karsten Schulze, Jeff McLeod, and David Cooper Orton have also recorded a sound diary and produced a MY2K CD.
  • DECEMBER 2003
  • A while ago I did a nice experimental remix of Centrozoon's track 'Ten Versions of America'.
    The track is part of an album of remixes - and the complete album can now be downloaded from Centrozoon. (You have to sign up (for free) as a member to get access to the member area first.)
  • OCTOBER 2003
  • A year ago I bought my lovely little Konica KD-400Z digicam. Check out the nature photographs page for a best-of slideshow. Looking at the slideshow myself, I notice for the first time that I tend to photograph one and the same phenomenon over and over again - seeing it in very different forms. Interesting. What is it? And does it turn up in my music too?
  • JULY 2003
  • Michael Peters: Cut-up Radio
    performed on the July 4th Berlin Livelooping Evening

    Also starring on that evening:
    Looping jazz guitarist Andreas Willers,
    the amazing solo singer Michael Schiefel,
    guitarist and loop delay inventor Matthias Grob,
    and Californian loop multiinstrumentalist Rick Walker.

    Check out some photos and sounds
  • JUNE 2003
  • Radio appearance
    Deutschlandradio Berlin (Germany): Newcomer Werkstatt
    Friday, JUNE 27, 0:05-1:00
    Götz Naleppa presented works of audio artists, among them, yours truly with the following works:
    Balloon:
    a toy balloon and granular synthesis between Ambient and Free Jazz
    Stretched Landscape #1:
    not all of it of course but a 15 minute walk.
  • MARCH 2003
  • Webradio appearance
    Soma FM - Drone Zone
    Rusty now regularly plays the complete Stretched Landscape, also Orllyndie as well as several ambient synthesizer works that I did in the early eighties and that have never been released.