a 20 second snippet from a long improvisation with Bugbrand's Postcard Weevil mini synth for Disquiet Junto's 'Insect Menagerie' compilation

Postcard Weevil (insect Menagerie Entry disquiet0494)

Sitting outside on a cool August evening with my iPad on my lap, this is what materialized. Aum with Geoshred, Mid East Drummer, Radio Unit, Glitchcore

Friday Evening 4th World Radio Jam

20210906 Clarinet Loop

a Guitar Craft inspired piece composed and recorded in 1996 for a Chapman Stick / Guitar trio (Trio Gitarristik)

Leander Reininghaus, g
Markus Reuter, stick
Michael Peters, g

Dange Strays

"Schwingungen"-Interview von Winfrid Trenkler im WDR mit den Mitgliedern der Band Camera Obscura. Die Musik wurde hier weggelassen (https://veloopity.bandcamp.com/album/camera-obscura-1984)
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WDR2 Schwingungen 27.9.1984

This tune was originally composed for an acoustic Guitar Craft trio (Trio Gitarristik, with Leander Reininghaus and Michael Peters on guitars, and Markus Reuter on Chapman stick and Warr guitar). Here I am supported by Christian Schaal on bass and Simon Herkenrath on drums. Recorded in the rehearsal room in April 2010

Dange Strays (Hulle version)

Acoustic guitar into an Oberheim Echoplex (100% wet so the original guitar is muted), with quantization=on and "8th beat" set to 14, a 2 second loop multiplied by 3, and a 700msec delay behind it to give it a more complex rhythmic structure. (The iPad was just used for recording)

Quantized Replace Session 20180313

Bass with several fuzzes and 'Frippertronics' livelooping. Listen loud!

20190204 Bassloops

The Absurd
Session 20180326

I do some vaguely Fripp-ish shredding and Belew-ish squeaking solos somewhere in the middle

Michael Frank - g
Marcus Jovy - b
Martin Ziegler - p
Monika Hendricks - fl
Hans Salz - dr
Michael Peters - g

Mastering by Walter Brühn and myself

While my guitar gently squeaks

a collage of a few recordings of improvised algorithmic music. This is based on the engine that was used for the 1996 Impossible Music album, but with more sophisticated sound sources
www.michaelpeters.de/projects/impossible-music

HOP Montage

For more than 40 years, Michael Peters has explored the world looking for new sounds. Most of his musical output veers from the mainstream and has been difficult to categorize. The renowned WIRE magazine has reviewed two of his albums in their "Outer Limits" section, which says it all.

Michael's main instrument is the guitar - he studied with renowned guitarist, Robert Fripp and also is influenced by guitarists David Torn, Eivind Aarset, and Fred Frith. He extends the guitar using electronic effects, midi, and livelooping techniques. He has played in avant rock and open improvisational groups.

He also has experimented with sampling and cutting up random FM radio broadcasts to use as elements in live improvisation.

By the same token, he has become more and more fascinated by using more stuctured compositions, using the computer as a musical instrument.

For anyone with open ears, the world of sound outside of regular music is also full of wonder. Michael loves to record interesting environmental sounds (field recording) and then recontextualize and sculpt them using digital tools such as granular synthesis, incorporating the results into musical compositions and soundscapes.

Michael is a member of Looper's Delight, a very active international community of people who use looping technology for their music making. He also is a seminal and pivotal member of the Chain Tape Collective, a group of dozens of electronic and electro-acoustic composers whose musicians create collaborative music projects together.

From time to time, Michael Peters has also been active as a programmer and visual artist in the field of abstract computer graphics. He is an avid photographer and has designed his own websites as well as the one for the Chain Tape Collective.

In the year 2000, he started an ambitious project called MY2K where he created an all original 10 second piece of music for every single day of the year.

In 2008, he hosted the 1st International Livelooping Festival in Cologne, featuring ten livelooping soloists from Germany, Italy, Belgium, Austria, and USA. In 2009, he performed at livelooping festivals in Belgium, Italy, and California.

Michael Peters lives in a small village east of Cologne, Germany. He loves to sit on a bench outside, listening ... 

Albums: veloopity.bandcamp.com

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