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Michael Chocholak
Experimental / Electroacoustic / Acousmatic / Tape music

Anything is a potential instrument. Play it.



COVE, Oregon
United States

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Member Since6/2/2008
Band Websitehttp://www.eoni.com/%7Emishamez/badge2.htm
InfluencesEdgard Varese, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, John Fahey, Beethoven, the Russian giants, Gerald McBoing Boing, shamanism, Pablo Neruda, Max Ernst, William Blake, quantum physics, Big Science, Les Paul, Salvador Dali, Basho, John Cage, motorcycles, the Beat poets, toccata and fugue in D minor, bird songs, Wassily Kandinsky, The Rite of Spring, Misha Nogha, Alexander Scriabin, Akira Kurosawa, Jorge Luis Borges, Carl Stalling, Giorgio de Chirico, Wim Wenders, Sputnik, Margaret Bourke-White, gamelan, Alexander Calder, lenses, Andrei Tarkovsky, Kobo Abe, maps, Jean Cocteau, Buto dancers, Ingmar Bergman, Huge Le Caine, Moebius, Walt Disney, Naum Gabo, k7 kulture, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Conrad Schnitzler, Arie van Schutterhoef, Rik Rue, Nokalypse, Richard Dunlap, jopy, Phenotypo, Richard Truhlar, The Schreck Electroacoustic Ensemble, radio waves, wind, water, wood, metal, the living world.
Sounds LikeTamas Ungvary, John Chowning, Luc Ferrari, Jaap Vink, Eugene Voronovsky

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Record LabelTriple Bath, Small Doses, Howski, echomusic
Type of LabelIndie


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   About Michael Chocholak
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Lucid Dreaming by Scarcity of Moments
A collaborative project by Johann Meier and myself. Nearly an hour of guitar and bass ambience realizing a sonic version of the multiple view points, fractured geometry, and repetition found in the literary works of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Edition of 72 copies packaged in three variations of manipulated images by Johann. Available from Small Doses
"Memory belongs to the imagination." - Alain Robbe-Grillet

Michael Chocholak - Alveromancy; conjuring through the use of sound. Abstract electronics, behemoth guitar drones, sonic surrealism. Limited edition of 96 numbered copies, 56 minutes, CDR, full color artwork print in a transparent sleeve. Available from Triple Bath

Originally a guitarist, these days (Michael is) using anything he can lay his hands on: from the guitar to the computer, from drums to glass - all of this is used to the extent of no longer being able to recognize what it is. Creating large pieces of vast and dense clouds of sound. Music that sounds very electronic, yet very organic too. You don't recognize the initial sources - it's only because they are mentioned in the press text. Music like this would be called ambient industrial: it's too noisy to be fully ambient and relaxing, and too ambient to pass on as real noise. This is sort of ambient (industrial, drone whatever) music that I really like. Referring to modern electronics (especially Roland Kayn), heavily processed electro-acoustic music and Germany's cosmic music (especially Conrad Schnitzler), this is music that hardly sees innovation, but in the capable hands of Chocholak it's still a great miracle. Franz de Waard/Vital Weekly



"Michael Chocholak is a sound shaman. His music transforms you, carries you away to other realities, other dimensions and other states of consciousness. If you are looking for a Bardo preview, this is the soundtrack." - Misha Nogha. Electronic and electroacoustic soundscapes. Abstract. Visceral and imagick. Structured improvisations. Surreal architectures. Alternate mythologies. Although initially a guitarist, any sound source is considered a potential instrument from skin drum to pc. Michael has fronted a number of ensembles playing original and improvisational music and issued over 25 independent releases including collaborations with his wife, writer and poet Misha Nogha, 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, poets David Memmott and Mel Buffington, the garage band Leather Smile, world fusion vocalist Pandia, and surreal transformationalist Richard Dunlap. Michael and Misha live in Northeast Oregon where they own and operate a small farm and raise Norwegian Fjord horses.

“A Salvador Dali of music.” - Gypsy

“It conjures up visions.” - Brian Aldiss

"I always put you in with Varese and crazy bastards like Bartok... John Cage and friends would be proud. It's sort of classic in a way. The Zen of tones and sonic space. " - John Shirley

“Heaven sent.” - Glenn Branca

“Crazy” - Thurston Moore

“It casts a long shadow over my inner ear.” - Rik Rue

“Audio-cinematic cortical opera.” - Richard Truhlar

"Beautiful and disturbing." - Don Webb

"Sounds like some cybernetic insect laying her eggs in a slab of silicon... sounds like the strange rituals performed by those wooden robots late at night." - Richard Kadrey

"I was oddly moved by these idiosyncratic compositions... strange but fascinating music." - Michael Bishop

"Really evocative and sensitively done. Beautiful." - David Lee Myers

“Pure heat, atavistic futurity.” - Ferret

“Takes the cutting edge of electronic music and slices through your cornea.” - Joey Zone

“When the last song was finished, all the birds fell dead from the sky.” - Richard Schindler

"It conjures visions of superstrings twined around a quantum fork in ten-dimensional space-time." - Keyboard Magazine

"Dark, cold, eerie, and beautiful" - EAR

"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

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Michael Chocholak's Friends Comments
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d'incise

d'incise



Nov 25 2009 1:21 PM

..
d’incise - Sécheresse Plantée En Plein Ciel
Gr 071 | Gruen CD-R | electronica |
67'00" | 50 copies | Gruenrekorder
www.gruenrekorder.de

Triple Bath

Triple Bath



Nov 15 2009 11:05 AM

The 3 latest releases on Triple Bath





Mike Johnston, Mike Gilmore, Mike Khoury, Kirk Lucas - "Impermanence"




Mystified - "Frigid Radiance"




Regular Rules - "Jeez Clusters Joys"



forthcoming releases

TRB.021 Mike Khoury & Ryan Jewell (November)
TRB.022 Guenter Mueller & Federico Barabino (December)
TRB.023 Coti (January)
Blake Wilner Group

Blake Wilner Group



Nov 9 2009 9:15 PM


Nice one Michael. Thanks for getting in contact.

Lovin your music.

Hope to see you again soon.

Regards,

Blake.
M e l l o t r o n G i r l !

M e l l o t r o n G i r l !



Nov 9 2009 5:19 AM

Wow! You've been sounscaping since as long as I can remember...back to the days of all your cassette-only releases, contributions to Tellus compilations, articles in OPtion, etc.,...I see tugboats on a foggy estruary, camel caravans inverted in a mirage, celestial happenstance with a glass of vintage white wine, the Kerguelen Islands on a rare cloudless day and beyond and beyond and beyond. Would you be offended if I used the term "freight elevator music" loosely..? That's what it sectacular about ambient swirlings...everyone perceives a different vision.
yiannis iliakis

yiannis iliakis



Nov 4 2009 9:43 PM

hello Michael and thnx a lot for your kind words! i am an "alvromancy" maniac!!
Great work!Have a nice time.
NATURA

NATURA



Oct 30 2009 4:09 PM

 
 
Red Snapper

Red Snapper



Sep 29 2009 6:08 PM

http://www.redsnapperofficial.com



come and join our mailing list to receive exclusive free tracks early next year

just click on the link

thanks

redsnapper
Alalu (I).

Alalu (I).



Sep 26 2009 7:08 AM

many thanks for the kind words.

  i also enjoy what you sent me. 

 it was a pleasure trading. keep in touch. 
Triple Bath

Triple Bath



Sep 15 2009 8:01 PM





..


Nokalypse & Mecha/Orga double-bill laptop performance from Athens

to Berlin (Germany), Prague (Czech Republic) and Vienna (Austria)

between October 30 and November 6



Come, meet us, have lunch, dinner, supper, breakfast with us...

Also, suggest us any place to play live in your city.


See some of you there!

Themis (Nokalypse) & Yiorgis (Mecha/Orga)





http://nokalypse.gr
http://mecha-orga.com



..

Please, forward this message to anybody that might be interested. Thanks!
Balandino Di Donato - Live, Rec & Mix

Balandino Di Donato - Live, Rec & Mix



Jul 29 2009 8:06 AM

d4d0
restive

restive



Jul 28 2009 11:19 PM

OUT NOW on Load and Clear netlabel:
restive - Six Melancholy Songs

http://www.load-and-clear.net/page11.html
click to download

Fabrizio D’Azzena

Fabrizio D’Azzena



Jul 26 2009 8:43 AM

Thank you very much Michael, thanks for you time!
Fabrizio D’Azzena

Fabrizio D’Azzena



Jul 24 2009 5:53 PM

I Michael, I just want to invite you to listen to my new track on the space named "Lotta" that means "Fight" . It's a live concert for percussions and elettronics , there's also a video of that night.
Hope you enjoy it.
Thanks for your time.
Fabrizio D'Azzena.
THE BEE (aka "Cherry")

THE BEE (aka "Cherry")



Jul 24 2009 6:09 AM

Haha getting there!
Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder



Jul 22 2009 6:58 AM

Green Hay & Stack

Green Hay & Stack



Jul 10 2009 11:18 PM

Been enjoying your music back at artistserver, glad to hear you here.
d'incise

d'incise



Jun 25 2009 4:14 PM

Les Lendemains Etendus

cdr / screenprinted cover / 8 tracks / 47min / electronica / 55ex
stream & online order on Audioactivity.net.
NATURA

NATURA



Jun 3 2009 11:41 AM

Thanks very much for the friendship
and Connection.
Congratulations for the good work.
I appreciate your music a lot.


You and your friends are invited to listen to NATURA
It’s really different.

http://www.reverbnation.com/znatura




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Pilesar

Pilesar



May 20 2009 1:55 AM

Hey Mike! Love the sounds:)
NOECHO Records// ** twitter.com/NOECHORecords **

NOECHO Records// ** twitter.com/NOECHORecords **



May 4 2009 9:33 PM


_____NEW RELEASE______

Luminous - The House of Spades

NOECHO (NE-006) 2009


>>DOWNLOAD NOW!(free)<<


randomlee

randomlee



Apr 16 2009 6:57 AM



hi, randomlee has posted 2 new tracks in 4 parts:

March Of The Fire Beast (with amazing artwork by Jackie Catenga)

Primordial Soup:
Part 1. Bombardment (excert)
Part 2. Space (excert)
Part 3. Soup-On-Sea (excert)

hope you like them
more soon
lee
Outward bound

Outward bound



Apr 9 2009 11:32 AM

thanks a lot!Your music always inspire me!
LVDLM

LVDLM



Apr 9 2009 7:12 AM

6 heure, ce marin. Se laisser seulement porter. Clouds, rain. Je la distingue à peine. ses mains posées sur le piano. A other danse. Plus loin, une piscine vide, un gazon vert et bleu. Des tables renversées. A other silence. sound. Une ivresse encore, les coupes sont renversées sur le sol. Il ne se passe rien. Conrad ferme les yeux et s'endort près de l'aéroport,Berlin. Des nuits soudaines.
Fantastic sound
Thanks for your music
for you
Bien à vous
F.
Sascha Muhr

Sascha Muhr



Apr 6 2009 4:09 PM

Thanks for the add. 'Iron Chasm' was really cool :)
greetings,
Sascha
Zreen Toyz

Zreen Toyz



Apr 4 2009 8:25 AM

Really nice Music. Fine sounds and ambiences.
Each listening is a great enjoyment.
Cheers from France
(my cat Ozzy is like Jack)
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