From acoustic blues to abstract electronics, skin drum to pc.
"You don't need a mouth to communicate, you don't need rules to create.
Anything is a potential instrument. Play it."
MC
“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
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 with preview track from Small Doses . leaning toward the liquid surface at Artistserver at SoundClick at MySpace at last fm "Memory belongs to the imagination." - Alain Robbe-Grillet |  |
 | Alveromancy; the act of conjuring using sound Abstract electronics, behemoth guitar drones, sonic surrealism. 56 minutes, CDR, full color artwork print in a transparent sleeve. Available with previews 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 |
Intersections "Matt Howarth's first mainstream mystery thriller novel comes as a PDF file on a CD with a 65 minute soundtrack of electronic music by Michael Chocholak. The music is highly infectious, uptempo electronics that blend agro industrial styles with dancefloor sensibilities, producing a haunting and harrowing soundtrack for the story." Available exclusively at the Bugtown Mall |  |
 | Hollow Bodies Published by echOmusic ; a septet of abstract electronic and electroacoustic incantations (including a new track written for the release) both visceral and evocative, that resonate in time, space and the imagination. Some of my best solo abstract compositions collected from over a decade of works in the spirit of Edgard Varese's Poeme Electronique, Tamas Ungvary's L'aube des flammes, and John Chowning's Turenas. Re-mastered by fellow electronic composer, sound engineer, and good friend Themis Pantelopoulos (aka Nokalypse) to bring out an even greater depth and brilliance. Even if you've gotten an mp3 download of these tracks, you're not hearing them as big as they truly are; music felt by your body as well as your mind. no longer available selections at Artistserver SoundClick lastfm |
 | my latest compositions are at ArtistServer - over 90 tracks including sonicblogs and the complete Red Spider White Web soundtrack to Misha's novel. Deeplinking and all tracks are available for AudioFeed/Podcast. Plus abstract ringtones, photos, blogs, and Black Light Station playlists.stream some selections from The Difficult Listening Hour | ------------------------------------------- |
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myspace. 9 tracks, blogs, slideshow, and check out
some of the great contemporary composers under 'friends'. |  |
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| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Various playlists of my music collected as albums at lastfm under the Peripheral Music label, plus selections from my other CDs and a variety of other playlists |  |
   | Soundclick; Brandy of the Damned (abstract and ambient electronic music including the Blood Music soundtrack), Coaxial (a growing collection of collaborations) and Michael Chocholak (all guitar - mostly rock & blues, some jazz, a few blister tracks and the complete YellowJacket soundtrack) plus a few playlists under my member profile. | -------------------------------------------- |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Ambience and smooth electronics at Soundlift. Deeplinking. |  |
 | DMusic featuring Staring into the Sky -
an hour long track
somewhere between a drone and an ambience... and a dream, and a few
electrobeat tracks. | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ----------------------------------------------- | Collaborations with Misha Nogha
at Soundclick including Conrad Schnitzler, Richard Truhlar
and myself,
and her complete live performance text pieces done with Jonathan Golove at SUNY Buffalo New York in December, 2002. |  |
 | YASHKOOKMOE Channel at YouTube - a collection of cool vids. | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ----------------------------------------- | "Silo #5 is an abandoned grain storage facility in the port of Montréal... Sounds arrive inside Silo #5 by
telephone or internet. They are then broadcast into the vast concrete grain
storage chambers inside the Silo. This sound is captured by microphones and rebroadcast back
to its sender, to other listeners and to a sound installation outside the
building."(just type in my name to hear my contributions) |  |
 | a varying selection of some of my older releases and compilations - some occasionally for sale. | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| ----------------------------------------- | Cassette Mythos (including my essay Sonic Darwinism
); before the internet and email, independent artists made and traded cassette tapes and other bizarre 'mail art'
using the postal service. It broke open
all musical genres and allowed for the creation of the independent music
scene as we know it. The K7 scene may be gone (or actually evolved), but the ideas behind it are as relevant now as they were then. |  |
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More musics well worth your savant ear; AgentA, Alphacore, Briarmon Smetrach, Richard Dunlap, drt/Phenotypo, farewell23, jopy, Lunatinker, David Lee Myers/Pulsewidth, Neon Egypt, Nokalypse/Triple Bath, Ooy, rachMiel, Redistort, Rik Rue, Conrad Schnitzler, The Schreck Ensemble, Arie van Schutterhoef, substation 7, Richard Truhlar | ---------------------------------------------------- |
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Listen to The Falling Room
8 to 9 pm on Friday and
rebroadcast 12 to 1 am on Tuesday on CFBU 103.7 FM Ontario CAN and Ultima Thule, Sunday 10:30 pm to midnight on 2MBS-FM 102.5, Sydney, AU. |
