stripped-down hardware-based set done in support of the 'simple machine' release on fountain music...
akai mpc1000 / dave smith mopho/ dave smith evolver/ 2 x korg mini-kaoss pads

Live in kitakyushu - october 09

Teufelsberg

Beckett

A track made shortly after the completion of the 'Berlin Anamnetic' project  (http://3leaves-label.com/3lstore/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=96) incorporating many of the same techniques...mixing field recordings and phonomnetic sounds from recently departed Berlin + newly-rediscovered Toronto.

Sonic Onion

Burning Head D

Test for an upcoming project. ‘Spectral Sound System’ is a live, semi-improvised audio-visual performance that is intended as a response to a specific location’s audio-visual topography. It employs a research-based approach with recordings made in situ and live coding to investigate a site’s nodes of affect and the embodied responses these might generate upon the individuals who occupy its distinct time-space.
A particular focus of this project is the interstitial area in which mediated tropes of emotion (generated via advertising and popular media) overlap and integrate themselves with the ephemeral mindsets of its individual inhabitants. Field recordings, spectral processing, data visualization and algorithmically-generated visuals are cross-processed and combined in a real-time, intuitive manner, redeploying the collected data in an intermedial response to the performance location’s socio-political terrain.

spectral sound system - live

A remix done for Jesse Crowe & Josh Korody's 'Beliefs' project.

DROWN - Sans Soleil Dub

a piece recorded at lake mamori, amazonia, brazil, as part of francisco lopez' ongoing series of sound/field recording workshops. 

michael trommer - mamori 1e

wx-urban 2

another test for a live set with eric filion:

greyfields:wavefields - project summary

'greyfields' is an ongoing audio-visual project investigating the psychogeography of commercial environments. 

This latest iteration focuses on capturing - via specially-constructed induction microphones -  the electro-magnetic spectra emitted by the informational, security, communication and power infrastructures which pervade the urban grid. 

The visual aspect  approaches the video image in its raw, base form -  as a standing wave pattern of electrical energy, the transduction of light into electrical impulses being more akin to the electromagnetic apparatus of the microphone than the mechanical/chemical process of traditional film or photography.

'greyfields/wavefields' seeks to render that which is invisible, inaudible, hidden yet omnipresent, into something which can be contemplated.  We are aware of these systems which infuse the physical structures of our metropolis, yet their ephemerality leads us to disregard the vastness, power (and related health implications) of their existence. 

They are, in many respects, a kind of urban ghost, clustering in and haunting our centres of financial and political dominance. As such, 'greyfields/wavefields' can be seen as a continuation/extension of the parapsychological investigations of EVP ('electronic voice phenomenon' - the search for spirit communications via radio waves and the recording of silent spaces) - an investigation of what lies concealed in the ether.

http://michaeltrommer.blogspot.ca/2013/02/greyfieldwavefield.html

TD induction 1

a piece from a project based on field-recordings made on a regular walk through toronto's downtown core , waterfront and condo developments...recording the same areas repeatedly  - @ different times of day/year + with different microphones (contact, hydrophone, induction, binaural, etc.). 

...it occurred to me that this can be seen as having somewhat of a precedent with some of the impressionists, who would also paint the same familiar landscape multiple times.

yard ping

Michael Trommer is a Toronto based producer and sound artist; his experimental work has been focussed primarily on psychogeographical explorations via the use of field recordings.

He has released material on an unusually diverse roster of labels, both under his own name as well as 'sans soleil'. These include Transmat, Wave, Ultra-red, and/OAR, Audiobulb, Audio Gourmet, Gruenrekorder, Impulsive Habitat, Stasisfield, Serein, Flaming Pines, 3leaves and con-v. 

Michael also creates gallery-based audio installation work; He has exhibited work at Australia’s ‘Liquid Architecture’, 'from 0 to 1 and back again' at Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt, Cordoba, Spain's art:tech and soundLAB in Köln. His music has also been included in Dodi Nash’s ‘Listening Shell’ installation, on permanent exhibit at London’s Victoria and Albert museum. 

He has performed extensively in North America, Europe and Asia,, including events with members of Berlin's raster-noton collective, as well as the 2008 and 2013 editions of Mutek's acclaimed a/visions series. He also regularly improvises with Toronto-based AI collective 'i/o media'.

In 2011, Michael's 'ghostwood' project was awarded a major audio arts grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

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