Edgard 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.
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
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"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
"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
Thank you for the comment; a very apt visual analogy! I don't think I want to reach the black shape in the distance, it may lead to madness or even death . . .
Hey there!!! I hope this message finds you both in good health, and good times. This whole myspace thing is pretty damn amazing. Thanks for the scoots' comment, that little bastard is so much damn fun! I was accepted into the Divers Institute Of Seattle. Im going to be a deep sea diver/ underwater welder. Im nervous as hell, but really excited at the same time. Oh yeah, I think my building climbing days are over unfortunatly, think ill explore the depths of the briney blue for adventure! Did Adrian tell you that we got to hang out in Hawaii together?? She was sea sick as hell but we still had a good time. Walk the red road!!
Howdy Badger! Glad to see your latest web presence here. Got a little jazz on my latest podcast: TONES for the HEAD I also reposted the Field Trip playlist there. It includes your Underworld Transit as you may remember. Glad you're keeping me posted.
Michael- over the last 20 years I've been a huge fan of your work and it sounds to me like you're getting better all the time. Brilliant work, my friend. My best thoughts are with you...
Thanks Michael yea I had a pretty long sojourn from making my own music in order to produce other bands' and artists' material. However I've got quite a bit of commissioned soundscape and soundtracks for video which i am hoping to release in the not too distant future. I haven't done any music with Rik for years and he's laying low these days now that he's been diagnosed with MS. The mystery of his poor health over the last 5 - 7 years at last has an identity that he can come to terms with. I'll check out your music when i get a good opportunity and give you my feedback.
Thanks for your nice words. If you wish you can use the links at my space (works released)to get complete works, the most of them are free. Greetings from Vigo______
