"Every composer should be locked in, but in a comfortable way of course...they're allowed to entertain friends, to have women and beverages,
everything they like. But they shouldn't be let loose, so that they could corrupt music, by living in an obtuse way and by having the stupid habit of having photographs made of themselves and showing themselves with their blunt noses. Of course, not every nose is blunt. There are intelligent, shy and insistent noses as well." - Giacinto Scelsi
Influences
SOUND : Morton Feldman, Roscoe Mitchell, Tar Babies, Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough, Flipper, Albert Ayler, Fred Frith, Sonic Youth, Johannes Brahms, Nurse With Wound, The Residents, Pierre Schaeffer, John Oswald, P.I.L., Anton von Webern, John Cage, James Dillon, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Daniel Dumile, Faust, Discordance Axis, Bell Brothers, John Coltrane, Leo Smith, Gyorgy Ligeti, John Zorn, Throbbing Gristle, Otis Jackson Jr, Nocturnal Emissions, Bourbonese Qualk, AMM, Boredoms, U.S. Maple, Cabaret Voltaire, S.P.K., Luc Ferrari, Amon Duul II, Shock Headed Peters, Black Flag, Harry Partch, Devo, Don Van Vliet, Iannis Xenakis, Sebadoh, Charles Ridenhour, Frank Lowe, King Tubby, Dead Kennedys, MEV, Swinebolt45, Mauricio Kagel, Robert Nesta Marley,
Thomas Dimuzio, Cecil Taylor, Can, James Tenney, Big Star, Plastic People Of The Universe, People Like Us, People, Henry Cow, Henry Cowell, Evan Parker, William Parker, Anthony Braxton, Tyondai
Braxton, Richard Barrett, Syd Barrett, Lester Bowie, David Bowie, etc.
VISION : Roberto Matta, Oscar Dominguez, Erin Hunt, Cy Twombly, Stan Brakhage, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, Willem de Koonig, Jean-Luc Godard, Weegee, L*B, Mauricio Kagel,
Luis Bunuel, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Federico Fellini, Yves Tanguy, Francis Bacon,
Anne Dimuzio, Robert Mapplethorpe, Speight Rhue, Kurt Schwitters, Brion Gysin, Theo Lesieg, etc.
LITERATURE : Umberto Eco, RAW, Lao Tzu, Alfred Jarry, Tom Stoppard, Samuel Beckett, F.T. Marinetti, J.G. Ballard, James Joyce, Zora Neale Hurston, William S. Burroughs, Hank Chinaski, Ralph Ellison, Donald Barthelme, Aldous Huxley, JD Salinger, e.e.cummings, Howard Zinn, David Sedaris, Eugene Ionesco, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Italo Calvino, Flannery O'Connor, Benjamin Pryor, Carl Jung, Henry David Thoreau, Carl Sandburg, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Philip K. Dick, Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Noam Chomsky, Theo Lesieg, etc.
Michael Thomas Jackson has been creating and recording music since 1985. He has been involved in fully notated composition, free improvisation, avant rock, concrete and electronic music, performance art and everything in between. He has worked with tape, found objects, analogue synthesizers, prepared guitars, various percussion, all manner of sound processing, electronic feedback systems, turntables, voice and extended techniques on the clarinet.
Michael has played as, in, or with many fine projects and people including Eugene Chadbourne, Rompecabeza, Spool Ensemble, Viktimized Karcass, Alien Planetscapes, Choptsicks, Cobra Clutch, Cephalic Index, The George Steeltoe Ensemble, Brian Osborne, Chris Phinney, Martin Klapper, Rafael Flores, Isolation,
Flutter, Jerry's Finger, Truncheonette, Projexorcism, Skoweyajeed, Katsu Itakura, Carl Howard, Bruce Eisenbeil, Quien Es, Thomas Dimuzio, Dave Fox, David Prescott, Pat Lawrence, Ian Davis, Scotty Irving, New Loft, Zan Hoffman, Hal McGee, Butch Dogwood, Primal Escapement and O.N.E.
Michael is currently active performing, recording and releasing music through the Primecuts Recordings imprint, raising a daughter and being poor.
23rd November @ 13th Note, Glasgow with D Abraham Turner 24th November @ Kraak Gallery, Manchester with A Middle Sex - £4 26th November @ Tap, The Water Works, Southend with Lost Harbours - FREE 27th November @ Cafe Oto, London with Chora - £5
Hey, thanks for getting back to me! I've just recently moved to lovely Bloomington, Indiana. Drop a line if you're going to/want to come through the Midwest.
KEVIN BLECHDOM - NEW ALBUM !!! OUT NOW !!!! OMG !!!
GENTLEMANIA!! GENTLEMANIA!! GENTLEMANIA!! GENTLEMANIA!!
An acoustic album chock full of palpitating love songs.
Kevin Blechdom plays piano and sings.
Available NOW on Sonig and on iTunes.
www.itunes.com/kevinblechdom/gentlemania
........Notre nouveau clip, entièrement fait à la main... PIG MONSTER.
Déjanté, hors normes, expérimental, décalé, théâtral, déglingué.
........Our new music video, entirely handstitched .... PIG MONSTER.
Crazy, non-standard, out of norme, unusual, experimental, out of phase, theatrical, delirious.
Pig Monster
BONNE ANNÉE, GROSSES BISES et VIVE le ROCK...
