Michael J. Schumacher: discography

New Release

Room Pieces

"Much has been written to guide listeners through the course of a preconceived form. Although Michael J. Schumacher's music is distinctly his own it has been inspired by David Tudor and Morton Feldman as well as La Monte Young. Like their music it is about hearing sounds in themselves, about allowing the ear to register sonorities and then the hearing imagination may go to work, navigating amongst temporal realities and imaginary spaces, negotiating between a sense of control and perceived randomness, stasis and movement, finitude and limitlessness, Schumacher thrives on those creative tensions. At its most personal and expansive his singular music has the capacity to convey 'intimate immensity.' Room Piece provides a unique solution and musical experience in reference to 'the room.' Generated by a specific method and possessing a decidedly emotional character, Room Piece is not merely 'ambient music' but creates a bridge between the 'eventfulness' heard in Cage-ian and serial music, and the new American drone music that has arisen intuitively to create the sound of a vibrant universe with rich interior activity."

Double CD

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Four Stills

"...Each piece is a study in stillness, at once stationary and ceaselessly busy in the fine detail. Each has the placidity of classic drift work, but also the buzz and twitter of animated micro-events currently favoured in so much of today's quiet music...The ear does come to discern patterns that unfold and processes that crystallise,...,so abstract design seems incidental to the experience of hearing this unique and very beautiful music." Julian Cowley, The Wire

contact: doss5@aol.com

Double CD

Guitar Electrica

contains four tracks of prepared electric guitar recorded in Berlin in 1992. Fans of Fidicin Drones
will enjoy these additional pieces from that time.

01- 01- 18

an improvisation

is a new electronic work, performed by the composer. To be played at the threshold of perception, it's an example of the Performance Engine, an improvising program for laptop computer.

Included with the two CD's, which are elegantly packaged in a wooden box, is a collection of photographs by
Ursula Scherrer.

limited edition of 100

contact: tim@lostplanet.com

'Fidicin Drones'

"Working with relatively modest resources, Michael J. Schumacher elicits dense clouds of overtones from an electric guitar... Schumacher...enables sounds rather than their source to hold the attention, and his results are outstanding." The Wire

contact: cloudytalk@aol.com

Here Below

The Donald Miller Trio

Charles Curtis: Fender Jazzmaster, sine wave generator
Michael J. Schumacher: prepared G3T Hohner, with custom bow
Donald Miller: prepared Fender Telecaster, with magnetic bows

recorded in performance at See Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts, 9 May 1998

out of print

Flood

Donald Miller & Michael J. Schumacher

"A profound and beautiful demonstration of the outer limits of white-noise (de)composition...The 30-minute drone-athon "Lamentation on the Death of Thrash Metal" stands as one of this centuryÕs most moving pieces of music." Alternative Press

"...an amazing, skillful, flabbergastingly well-executed pairing." Opprobrium Magazine

"My favourite album of 1997 was the Donald Miller/Michael Schumacher "Flood" CD on Warm-O'-Brisk; the world would definitely be a better place if everyone owned a copy of it." Nick Cain

"...a non-compromised artistic statement..." The Wire

"an emotional and intellectual torrent of raw, unrestrained creativity." The Sound Projector

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