MUSIC

Halloween Trio With Gorilla

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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/ / bonn, halloween, improvisation, klangspielraum, Music, sue schlotte, uwe schumacher, Video

Solingen Viertelklang

On the last day of September 2017, shortly after my trusty old Mercedes had died an unexpected death while on ...
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/ / 2017, ambient, experimental, florian zeitler, Music, rick walker, solingen, soundscape, Video, video, viertelklang

Berlin Cymatics Loops

The livelooping tour that some of my friends did this spring (concerts and workshops in Paris, Florence, Brescia, Prague, Dresden, ...
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/ / 2017, berlin, livelooping, Music

Paris Spring Loops

"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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Sentimentals & Instrumentals

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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Cardboard Winter

Binaryminds is a software company that I sometimes work for. For the 2016 winter holiday season, they sent greeting cards ...
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/ / ambient, Music, soundscape, virtual reality / No Comments on Cardboard Winter

Gwneud Sŵn in Wales

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” revisited

"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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Bohemian Polyphony 2016

My loop guitar colleague Gerd Weyhing had invited a few musicians to spend five days in a castle in the ...
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/ / august 2016, bohemian polyphony, czech republic, kalich, Music / No Comments on Bohemian Polyphony 2016

Berlin Livelooping August 2016

I am in Berlin now for a week, on my way to the "Bohemian Polyphony" event - more of this ...
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/ / berlin, frippertronics, leander reininghaus, livelooping, markus reuter, Music, trio gitarristik / No Comments on Berlin Livelooping August 2016

A new website

Finally, a new Michael Peters website, this time made in Wordpress - with the help of the wonderful Kathryn Hardtke, ...
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/ / kathryn hardtke, Music, webdesign, website, wordpress / No Comments on A new website

The Letchworth 7-and-8 (for Georgina Brett)

Here is a piece I improvised in Letchworth (north of London) on Nov 1st, 2014. Maybe you like it My ...
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/ / bidule, georgina brett, letchworth, livelooping, minimalism, Music, Places, Uncategorized / No Comments on The Letchworth 7-and-8 (for Georgina Brett)

Drone

Maybe it was the last warm summer day of 2012. I took a longer walk up and around my favorite ...
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/ / drone, fieldrecording, insect, Music, Nature, summer / No Comments on Drone

Turquoise Coast 2: Underwater Concert

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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Contemplating the Planet Venus

Emotional Sense by Georgina Brett stopping the car on top of the hill midnight, black velvet sky, and just over ...
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/ / ambient, georgina brett, livelooping, Music, venus, vocals / No Comments on Contemplating the Planet Venus

Ecstasy Trilogy

Here are three ambient movies that I put online recently, each of them about 30 minutes long: "Mouse Pointer Feedback ...
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/ / ambient, ecstasy, georgina brett, jelly fish, lava lamp, mouse pointer, Music, sequoia, slow motion, Video, video / No Comments on Ecstasy Trilogy

When in Rome

In the afternoon of the second day of the Florence Livelooping Festival, Fabio Anile (who had to work on Monday ...
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/ / anile, fabio, livelooping, Music, roma, rome, villa adriana / No Comments on When in Rome

A Suitcase Full of Stars

Another Livelooping festival, this time in beautiful Florence ... Some of you might remember the sentence "my god, it's full ...
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/ / florence, livelooping, Music, Places / 7 Comments on A Suitcase Full of Stars

2011: A Livelooping Weekend

This was the weekend of the 2nd international Livelooping Festival in Cologne - I had organized the first one almost ...
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Soft Drugs in Antwerp

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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Scrap Cities, Rubber Boats, Sepia Songs

Last saturday was very full. I worked until noon (no pictures of the ColdFusion code that I wrote, that would ...
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/ / Art, Greenpeace, Michael Kramer, Music, Peyman Nasehpour, Sepiasonic, WDR / 1 Comment on Scrap Cities, Rubber Boats, Sepia Songs

Surrounded by Fog

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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/ / Adobe, Frankfurt, Music, U2 / No Comments on Surrounded by Fog

An Absurd Weekend

25 years ago, a guitarist from Cologne called Michael Frank started a band called The Absurd. Their mixture of rock ...
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/ / andere baustelle, berlin, michael frank, Music, the absurd, zukkaattakk / 1 Comment on An Absurd Weekend

Sahara Of Snow & Other Places

Fragments today as there is a slightly fragmented, slightly surreal feeling - I just read something surreal, and something slightly ...
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/ / beteigeuze, idaho, Music, Nature, skype, snow, tippett / No Comments on Sahara Of Snow & Other Places

Church Vibrator

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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/ / improvisation, klang spiel raum, Music, uwe schumacher / 1 Comment on Church Vibrator

Diamond Body Friday

I live in the countryside 30km east of Cologne - it takes 45 minutes to drive into the city. This ...
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/ / advaita, coldfusion, Cologne, cümbüs, Music, progressive rock / 1 Comment on Diamond Body Friday

Wise Old Men

Who remembers Catweazle? When Daevid Allen entered stage yesterday where his band Gong was already playing, he was clad in ...
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/ / daevid allen, gong, Music, steve hillage / 1 Comment on Wise Old Men

Y2K9

Y2K9 was why we had come to the west coast in the first place: Rick Walker (who keeps pointing out ...
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Towards Y2K9 (3): The Guitar Sculpture

A tourist visit to Seattle, especially for a retro-futurist enthusiast like me, is usually (literally) topped by a visit to ...
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/ / emp, Music, Places, seattle, sfm, space needle / No Comments on Towards Y2K9 (3): The Guitar Sculpture

What My Feet Hear Barefoot On The Beach

After many attempts to find a sunny weekend where both of us had time for a few days of vacation, ...
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/ / beach, camperduin, cheese market, holland, Music, Places, sand, underwater, windmill / 2 Comments on What My Feet Hear Barefoot On The Beach