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Michael Phillip Wojewoda

Faceless Forces of Bigness/Rheostatics

About Me

Michael Phillip Wojewoda is a well-known Canadian producer/engineer who recorded the Barenaked Ladies Gordon and Born on a Pirate Ship, the Rheostatics Whale Music and Melville, Spirit of the Wests Faithlift, Ashley MacIsaacs Hi, How Are You Today?, and Jane Siberrys When I Was a Boy. He has recorded over 70 albums and won a Juno award in 1994 for best engineer, and again in 1995, for best producer. He continues to produce music into the new century.

Michael is also a composer/musician/performer. For the last 5 years he has been a member of the Rheostatics. Both drumming and producing recordings with the band. He is also the musical director of the electronic music-visual ensemble, The Faceless Forces of Bigness.

Michael has also drank from the cup of television. Creating music for OLN and National Geographic Channel.

VIDEO:Faceless Forces of Bigness


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VIDEO:Late Night Piano Noir


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VIDEO: Rheostatics 2067 Out Take


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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/7/2006
Band Website: mpw.ca
Band Members:

Rheostatics
Martin Tielli (guitar)
Tim Vesley (bass)
Dave Bidini (guitar)
Michael Wojewoda (drums)


Faceless Forces of Bigness
John D.S. Adams
(custom modular analog boxes)
Chris Stringer
(modular analog synths)
Steve Clarkson a.k.a. bias ply
(digital recombinant wiring)
Michael Wojewoda
(modular analog synths, laptop nonsense)
Justin Stephenson
(film maker, animator, video synthesizers)
Influences: Steve Reich, Autechre, Squarepusher, Kraftwerk, Glenn Branca, Wendy Carlos, Morton Subotnick, Robert Moog (RIP), Arvo Pärt, Morton Feldman, Pierre Schaeffer, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Karlheinz Stockhausen, David Tudor, John Cage, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Sonic Youth, Jim O'Rourke, Lee Scratch Perry, Raymond Scott, Carl Stalling, MC5, Frank Zappa, Glen Gould, Neil Young, Deep Purple (II), Gentle Giant,  Early Yes, John Coltrane.
Sounds Like: electro acoustic-core
glitchy laptop click-core
arctic ice-core
eh rhythmic eh tonal
deeply personal

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Here is my curriculum vitae 1883 to the Present.

Michael Phillip Wojewoda Music Production from 1983 to the present. KEVIN HEARN (Human Genome) Producer/Engineer Independent 2006 LUKE DOUCET (Broken) Mixer Six Shooter Records 2005 BL...
Posted by Michael Phillip Wojewoda on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:46:00 PST