MUSIC

In October 2018 in Rome, during our final session for "Presence", an ambient album that has lots of quiet harmony ...
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Several times between 2010 and 2018, I spent some time with Italian pianist Fabio Anile at his place in Rome ...
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For a few years in the mid-1980s, I lived in a half-timbered house (just a mile from where I live ...
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American minimalist composer Terry Riley is one of my big heroes. The reason for this is probably the goosebumps that ...
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As wonderful as this band is, none of us is good at self-marketing, so we often end up with one ...
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Uwe Schumacher's last Klangspielraum concert in October 2018 (with him on bass, percussion, and vocals; Sue Schlotte on cello; and ...
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On the last day of September 2017, shortly after my trusty old Mercedes had died an unexpected death while on ...
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The livelooping tour that some of my friends did this spring (concerts and workshops in Paris, Florence, Brescia, Prague, Dresden, ...
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"Paris Spring Loops" was the title of this year's international livelooping festival, organized by Nelly Meunier and Emmanuel Reveneau. The ...
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Another wonderful new year's concert by The Absurd at Cologne's LOFT. On this saturday, the streets were so icy in ...
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Binaryminds is a software company that I sometimes work for. For the 2016 winter holiday season, they sent greeting cards ...
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When multiinstrumentalist and livelooper Rick Walker started doing the first international livelooping festivals in California 15 years ago, he probably ...
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"Das Hertz" was a free-improvisation, jazz/rock/experimental band that existed between 2006 and 2009: Martin Ziegler - keyboards Michael Peters - ...
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My loop guitar colleague Gerd Weyhing had invited a few musicians to spend five days in a castle in the ...
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I am in Berlin now for a week, on my way to the "Bohemian Polyphony" event - more of this ...
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Finally, a new Michael Peters website, this time made in Wordpress - with the help of the wonderful Kathryn Hardtke, ...
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Here is a piece I improvised in Letchworth (north of London) on Nov 1st, 2014. Maybe you like it My ...
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Maybe it was the last warm summer day of 2012. I took a longer walk up and around my favorite ...
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I've seen hundreds of concerts in my life, some of them rather unusual, but the most unusual of all definitely ...
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Emotional Sense by Georgina Brett stopping the car on top of the hill midnight, black velvet sky, and just over ...
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Here are three ambient movies that I put online recently, each of them about 30 minutes long: "Mouse Pointer Feedback ...
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In the afternoon of the second day of the Florence Livelooping Festival, Fabio Anile (who had to work on Monday ...
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Another Livelooping festival, this time in beautiful Florence ... Some of you might remember the sentence "my god, it's full ...
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This was the weekend of the 2nd international Livelooping Festival in Cologne - I had organized the first one almost ...
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I did a Saturday/Sunday trip to Antwerp to visit the Livelooping Festival, the 3rd one organized by Sjaak Overgaauw. Except ...
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Last saturday was very full. I worked until noon (no pictures of the ColdFusion code that I wrote, that would ...
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Recently, I was the only participant showing up on an official but small-scale Adobe Coldfusion Developer meeting at Starbucks, on ...
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25 years ago, a guitarist from Cologne called Michael Frank started a band called The Absurd. Their mixture of rock ...
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Fragments today as there is a slightly fragmented, slightly surreal feeling - I just read something surreal, and something slightly ...
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My second end-of-November improvisation concert (my first one was in 2008) with percussionist-singer-bassist Uwe Schumacher in a church in Bonn, ...
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