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michaelthomasjackson

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes et tu Bluto

About Me

Michael Thomas Jackson has been creating and recording music since 1985. He has been involved in fully notated composition, free improvisation, avant rock, concrete and electronic music, performance art and everything in between. He has worked with tape, found objects, analogue synthesizers, prepared guitars, various percussion, all manner of sound processing, electronic feedback systems, turntables, voice and extended techniques on the clarinet. Michael has played as, in, or with many fine projects and people including Eugene Chadbourne, Rompecabeza, Spool Ensemble, Viktimized Karcass, Alien Planetscapes, Choptsicks, Cobra Clutch, Cephalic Index, The George Steeltoe Ensemble, Brian Osborne, Chris Phinney, Martin Klapper, Rafael Flores, Isolation, Flutter, Jerry's Finger, Truncheonette, Projexorcism, Skoweyajeed, Katsu Itakura, Carl Howard, Bruce Eisenbeil, Quien Es, Thomas Dimuzio, Dave Fox, David Prescott, Pat Lawrence, Ian Davis, Scotty Irving, New Loft, Zan Hoffman, Hal McGee and O.N.E. Michael is currently active performing, recording and releasing music through the Primecuts Recordings imprint, raising a daughter and being poor.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/6/2006
Band Website: microearth.com/jackson
Band Members: "Every composer should be locked in, but in a comfortable way of course...they're allowed to entertain friends, to have women and beverages, everything they like. But they shouldn't be let loose, so that they could corrupt music, by living in an obtuse way and by having the stupid habit of having photographs made of themselves and showing themselves with their blunt noses. Of course, not every nose is blunt. There are intelligent, shy and insistent noses as well." - Giacinto Scelsi
Influences: SOUND : Morton Feldman, Roscoe Mitchell, Tar Babies, Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough, Flipper, Albert Ayler, Fred Frith, Sonic Youth, Johannes Brahms, Nurse With Wound, The Residents, Pierre Schaeffer, John Oswald, P.I.L., Anton von Webern, John Cage, James Dillon, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Daniel Dumile, Faust, Discordance Axis, Bell Brothers, John Coltrane, Leo Smith, Gyorgy Ligeti, John Zorn, Throbbing Gristle, Otis Jackson Jr, Nocturnal Emissions, Bourbonese Qualk, AMM, Boredoms, U.S. Maple, Cabaret Voltaire, S.P.K., Luc Ferrari, Amon Duul II, Shock Headed Peters, Black Flag, Harry Partch, Devo, Don Van Vliet, Iannis Xenakis, Sebadoh, Charles Ridenhour, Frank Lowe, King Tubby, Dead Kennedys, MEV, Swinebolt45, Mauricio Kagel, Robert Nesta Marley, Thomas Dimuzio, Cecil Taylor, Can, James Tenney, Big Star, Plastic People Of The Universe, People Like Us, People, Henry Cow, Henry Cowell, Evan Parker, William Parker, Anthony Braxton, Tyondai Braxton, Richard Barrett, Syd Barrett, Lester Bowie, David Bowie, etc.VISION : Roberto Matta, Oscar Dominguez, Erin Hunt, Cy Twombly, Stan Brakhage, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, Willem de Koonig, Jean-Luc Godard, Weegee, L*B, Mauricio Kagel, Luis Bunuel, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Federico Fellini, Yves Tanguy, Francis Bacon, Anne Dimuzio, Robert Mapplethorpe, Speight Rhue, Kurt Schwitters, Brion Gysin, Theo Lesieg, etc.LITERATURE : Umberto Eco, RAW, Lao Tzu, Alfred Jarry, Tom Stoppard, Samuel Beckett, F.T. Marinetti, J.G. Ballard, James Joyce, Zora Neale Hurston, William S. Burroughs, Hank Chinaski, Ralph Ellison, Donald Barthelme, Aldous Huxley, JD Salinger, e.e.cummings, Howard Zinn, David Sedaris, Eugene Ionesco, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Italo Calvino, Flannery O'Connor, Benjamin Pryor, Carl Jung, Henry David Thoreau, Carl Sandburg, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Philip K. Dick, Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Noam Chomsky, Theo Lesieg, etc.
Sounds Like: Ssshhh...here comes the ice cream truck
Record Label: Primecuts/Heat Retention/Deep Fried Tapes, etc
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Free netreleases

Two fine netlabels have released some of my older material as free downloads for the people "The Disasters Of Mysticism" is a 45+ minute multi-track tape composition from 1998 out of my series of work...
Posted by michaelthomasjackson on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:31:00 PST

links

LINKAGE www.myspace.com/spoolensemble www.soundclick.com/michaelthomasjackson www.soundclick.com/primecutsrecordings www.soundclick.com/spoolensemble www.heatretentionrecords.com www.microearth.com ww...
Posted by michaelthomasjackson on Sat, 27 May 2006 12:51:00 PST

Mass Wasting

is out now : a double CDR of maximum minimalism based on geomorphic processes recorded back in May of this year. more info and consumer power : www.microearth.com/jackson  ...
Posted by michaelthomasjackson on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:29:00 PST

Heathen Harvest

www.heathenharvest.com is a webzine I write for. New issues are published on the 1st & 15th of every month. I welcome any and all criticism on my journalistic efforts and encourage you music makin...
Posted by michaelthomasjackson on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:45:00 PST

Id Control and Cheslocked

"Id Control" is a 20-minute cassette of material recorded live in Raleigh earlier this year. It's out now on Deep Fried Tapes in a limited edition of 50. www.deepfriedtapes.org a sample in this player...
Posted by michaelthomasjackson on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:40:00 PST

PAYPAL

Dearest Consumer, I now accept Paypal orders [email protected] catalog : www.microearth.com/jackson Maybe one day I'll set up those fancy buttons for greater purchasing ease and comfort. I've a...
Posted by michaelthomasjackson on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:26:00 PST

new audio tracks and info

some new tracks up here and at Soundclick www.soundclick.com/michaelthomasjackson click 'lyrics' for info on the myspace tracks peace j...
Posted by michaelthomasjackson on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:27:00 PST

home, it's OK

I would like to thank and acknowledge everyone who accompanied me and/or contibuted to a wonderful week + of concerts, travel, and recording loveliness : Aaron Bachelder, Bob Holub, Matt Smith, B...
Posted by michaelthomasjackson on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:32:00 PST

Heat Retention Goodies

www.heatretentionrecords.com New releases out of this fine Brooklyn label SPOOL ENSEMBLE-3 Electronics : interactive live electronic music on a 3" CDR housed in a DVD case; numbered edition of 39...
Posted by michaelthomasjackson on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:07:00 PST

Valentine's Day Release

February 14 will see the release of a new solo work  "Dead Orchid" on a 3" CDR in a numbered edition of 23. Go to my website for order info, etc. www.microearth.com/jackson...
Posted by michaelthomasjackson on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:34:00 PST