
Music and Noise in 2021
I'm about to round off my professional life as a freelance programmer in 2022. Two or three smaller regular jobs ...
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Almandine
Guitarist David Torn has popularized (among a few adventurous guitarists, that is) the use of a guitar pick made of ...
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Immediacy
I spent a cold February weekend in 2013 making music with Berlin based synth wizard Bernhard Wöstheinrich who at the ...
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Musical Inquirer
I met my friend Markus Reuter 30 years ago on a Guitar Craft course with Robert Fripp. We played in ...
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Or The Everlasting Now
In September 2020, sound artist Johannes S. Sistermanns visited me to make an interview for a radio feature about my ...
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Number 18 Seed
On July 18, 2019, my UK friends Michael Bearpark (guitar) and Andrew Booker (drums) travelled to the German Loreley "Night ...
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Not quite as ambient
In October 2018 in Rome, during our final session for "Presence", an ambient album that has lots of quiet harmony ...
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Presence
Several times between 2010 and 2018, I spent some time with Italian pianist Fabio Anile at his place in Rome ...
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Camera Obscura
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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The Echo Chamber of the Self
American minimalist composer Terry Riley is one of my big heroes. The reason for this is probably the goosebumps that ...
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Blind Date With Music
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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