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Mike Edgerton
Improvisation on ursonate by Kurt Schwitters from Blood, Sugar, Breath
During the festival, Tiefschoen 2
September 9, 2019
Schloss Wartin in Wartin, Germany  
by courtesy of tiefschoen 2 (Wartin, Germany), technician Marc Malo Schelesnow
with special thanks to Gerhardt Mueller Goldboom

Improvisation on ursonate by Kurt Schwitters from Blood, Sugar, Breath on 2019-09-20

Mike Edgerton
Improvisation on Frictional by Jaap Blonk from Blood, Sugar, Breath
During the festival, Tiefschoen 2
September 9, 2019
Schloss Wartin in Wartin, Germany  
by courtesy of tiefschoen 2 (Wartin, Germany), technician Marc Malo Schelesnow
with special thanks to Gerhardt Mueller Goldboom

Improvisation on Frictional by Jaap Blonk from Blood, Sugar, Breath on 2019-09-20

Mike Edgerton
Crying Song from Blood, Sugar, Breath
During the festival, Tiefschoen 2
September 9, 2019
Schloss Wartin in Wartin, Germany  
by courtesy of tiefschoen 2 (Wartin, Germany), technician Marc Malo Schelesnow
with special thanks to Gerhardt Mueller Goldboom

Crying Song from Blood, Sugar, Breath on 2019 09 20

Mike Edgerton
Improvisation on criptomelodie by Demetrio Stratos from Blood, Sugar, Breath
During the festival, Tiefschoen 2
September 9, 2019
Schloss Wartin in Wartin, Germany  
by courtesy of tiefschoen 2 (Wartin, Germany), technician Marc Malo Schelesnow
with special thanks to Gerhardt Mueller Goldboom

Improvisation on criptomelodie by Demetrio Stratos from Blood, Sugar, Breath on 2019-09-20

Mike Edgerton
… crazy gamblin’ witch doctor…  from Blood, Sugar, Breath
During the festival, Tiefschoen 2
September 9, 2019
Schloss Wartin in Wartin, Germany  
by courtesy of tiefschoen 2 (Wartin, Germany), technician Marc Malo Schelesnow
with special thanks to Gerhardt Mueller Goldboom

...crazy gamblin' witch doctor.... from Blood, Sugar, Breath on 2019-09-20

Mike Edgerton
PulLingBils from Blood, Sugar, Breath
During the festival, Tiefschoen 2
September 9, 2019
Schloss Wartin in Wartin, Germany  
by courtesy of tiefschoen 2 (Wartin, Germany), technician Marc Malo Schelesnow
with special thanks to Gerhardt Mueller Goldboom

PulLingBils from Blood, Sugar, Breath on 2019-09-20

Mike Edgerton
Improvisation on ABC by Emmett Williams from Blood, Sugar, Breath
During the festival, Tiefschoen 2
September 9, 2019
Schloss Wartin in Wartin, Germany  
by courtesy of tiefschoen 2 (Wartin, Germany), technician Marc Malo Schelesnow
with special thanks to Gerhardt Mueller Goldboom

Improvisation on ABC by Emmett Williams on 2019-09-20

This site will host my work with experimental voice as composer, performer and teacher.

These recordings show my interest in vocal multiphonics and using the voice as a real-time synthesizer/electroacoustic instrument.

"The way Mike uses his voice sounds more like Phil Minton, Jaap Blonk, Demetrio Stratos than Mick Jagger or Madonna

Mike Edgerton's extended-vocal performance is a tour-de-force: it has the mayhem of contemporary improvisers and performance artists, the shapely beauty of polyphonic traditions from Sardinia to Tuva, and the decay of a smoker's wheeze all at once. His interpretation of the Ursonata is not to be missed."
Christopher Williams

"(Mike's) BloodSugarBreath is a rare form of composing and performing. The notions of music composing are challenged by his work. It is a special way of experimental music that will involve body and finest voice skills."
Márcio Carvalho

BIO
Currently Associate Professor at Lund University_Malmö Academy of Music, Michael is a composer whose work elides the boundaries of complexity with practical applications of physical and perceptual models. Since the mid-90’s he has been pioneering work with Multidimensionality and Nonlinear Phenomenon applied to sound production and composition.

Michael’s compositions have received prizes and/or recognition from: Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, 2007 (First Prize, Tempo Mental Rap, #72, 2005); Composition Contest of the Netherlands Radio Choir, 2007 (Semifinalist, Kalevi Matus, #58, 2000); 5th Dutilleux International Composition Compétition, 2003 (Sélection, 1 sonata, #70, 2004); 31st Festival Synthese Bourges, 2001 (Sélection, The Elements of Risk in Creation, #59, 2001); MacDowell Club, 1996 (First prize, Unspoken Crime #09, 1988); Friends and Enemies of New Music, 1993 (Selection,Net/Byrinth:Rec.Study I, #15, 1991); Midwest Composers Symposium, 1989 (Selection, A Penny for the Young Guy #3, 1986); National Federation of Music Clubs, 1987 (Third Prize, Ai #5, 1987); National Federation of Music Clubs, 1987 (Honorable Mention, Dwellers of the Southwest, #2, 1986); Michigan State Univ-Orchestral Composition Contest, 1986 (First prize, The Final Diary of a Branch, #1, 1985).

His music has been performed by AuditivVokal Dresden, Ekmeles Ensemble, Ensemble Ars Nova, Kairos String Quartet, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Quartet New Generation, Works-in-Progress Ensemble and soloists Almut Kühne, Andreas Fröhling, Angela Rademacher-Wingerath, Chatschatur Kanajan, Gary Verkade, Jan Heinke, Jeffrey Burns, Mats Möller, Matthias Bauer, Philippe Arnaudet, Rebekka Uhlig, Stefan Östersjö, Timo Kinnunen, among others.

Michael is engaged with research into voice, acoustics and perception. His work with the extra-normal voice is internationally known through performances, journal publications and a book, The 21st Century Voice published in the New Instrumentation Series (Scarecrow Press).

As a performer Mike Edgerton presents performances focused on different aspects of sound production and organization of the extra-normal voice. In this program, performances explore voiced and unvoiced multiphonics; frications beginning at the lips and moving progressively backwards; the vocal folds, the glottis, on both ingressive and egressive airflow; unusual modes of phonation; the alphabet; shamanism and grief in the vast open plains; airflow intersecting with lips, tongue spit; an improvisation based on the timbre and articulation of a song from Thailand; meditation on breathing by using the respiratory tract as a bellows; lip and tongue flutters, tongue frications with slight whistle tones, and; end of breath – going deeply into the air reserve.

Mike Edgerton

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