About Me
HISTORY:
...one-man, DIY experimental / improvisation platform, based in Athens, Greece, since 2001. Modern sonic nihilism, minimal and industrial evolution of the power electronics generation. The model of all this is a "real-time Post-Music" texture, in which I operate. Esoteric function.
IMPROVISATION:
I am not musician and I will never be one! Respect to the "music" but I am rather a constructor. All material was, is and will be always improvised! This is not music, it has sonic elements thus it is a form of sound but not music. The "psychovisual telekinisis" which moves things further is emerging out of a "Post-Music" structure. This reformation of the traditional music synthesis is the actual pattern on which my sonic manipulations are expressed and created. All tracks are played for the first and last time during their birth, and recorded realtime. That's it. Their one and only documented form is on those recordings. I can't recall them, I can't play them but only once, and this is something that I find extremely interesting! I'm not sure about how and if Migra could sound in the future.
EVOLUTION:
Project started creating computer-generated music only, but now I've started to experiment with both ways; computers and instruments, digital and analog. I feel that the Machines can co-exist.
REGARDS:
At this point I wish to thank D (from D_M) for the thousant days in Sodom plus other atrocities, hallucinations, inner-self wars, experimentism, mind explorations, destructions, reconstructions
and and and...
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[MiGRA 2001 - 2007]
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TECHNICAL:
Tools: Marshall amp (thanks to D.), Behringer T1953 Tube Ultragain vacuum mic/line preamp, Behringer Tube Ultra-Q vacuum 4-band stereo parametric equalizer, Theremaniacs Theremin, Monotonic Labs Type U73 Synthesizer Mk I, Monotonic Labs Type U73 Synthesizer Mk II, Roland TD20 V-Drums, Boss RC50 Loop Station, Electro Harmonix Frequency Analyzer, Moog MF-102 Ring Modulator, Moog MF-105 MuRF, Moog MF-104Z Analog Delay, Moog MF-103 12-Stage Phaser, Moog MF-101 Low Pass Filter, Death By Audio Harmonic Transformer, Death By Audio Soundwave Breakdown, Death By Audio Super Sonic Fuzz Gun, LAL Effects Cyber Psychic, Yamaha DX-7II-FD synth, Moog Rogue vintage monophonic analog synth, Electric Kazoo, M-Audio Radium 61 midi controller, Audio Technica condeser mic, Shure PG58 dynamic mic, Alesis Multimix 16 FXD mixer, Mackie 24-4 console, Mackie HDR 26/96 hard disk recorder, two borrowed guitars (Jackson DX-2 customized & Gibson SG Voodoo - thanks to D.) plus a bunch of other misc sound generating things. Besides these I'm using a pc equiped with Reason 3, Wavelab 6, Audition 2, many Native Instruments, Steinberg and other VSTi instruments.
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"Midraliopteron"
mini CD-R - 2002 - [style: Experimental]
(MiGRAFORSELF Releases - MFSR001)
Now available as net release only, from Smell The Stench
"Kuhn-Ul"
CD-R - 2003 - [style: Harsh Noise]
(MiGRAFORSELF Releases - MFSR002)
Now available as net release only, from Umbrella Noize Collective
"At Last... Silence"
mini CD-R - 2004 - [style: Minimal]
(MiGRAFORSELF Releases - MFSR003)
Now available as net release only, from Smell The Stench
"Arathinol"
double CD-R - 2005 - [Style: Dark Ambient]
(MiGRAFORSELF Releases - MFSR005)
Now available as net release only, from Smell The Stench
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Two new Migra releases will be out very soon via MigraForSelf.
TRUE COLOUR OF BLOOD / RE:DUXTION / MIGRA 3-way split CD
MIGRA / DEFEKTRO split CD
Both releases are in the process of cover printing and finalization. They will be available in about 20 to 30 days.
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GALATIC VILLAGE EXPERIMENTAL SESSION BAND (2002 - 2003)
[A free for all gathering of friends. Improvisation rituals that took place at Galatic Village. Line Up: Pantazis: - guitar / Jim: bass, keyboards, computer / Migras: drums - keyboards - computer / George: saxophone. Currently resides in it's grave. Status: R.I.P. A 'complete works' tripple CD-R will be out soon via MigraForSelf Releases after February of 2007]
DREHNIM - MIGRA (2004 - 2006)
[Collaboration with Drehnim for a noise / improvisation platform making computer generated music. Currently resides in the deep freezer. Status: Hibernating. A special edition 10'' vinyl record is to be released via MiGRAFORSELF Releases, sometime during summer of 2007]
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Since July of 2006 MiGRA expanted with the addition of a CD/CD-R/vinyl label & distro named MigraForSelf Releases and M Distro respectively. I'm always looking for artists/bands/labels etc to release split cd's or vinyl's, to collaborate and other day-dreamings, or just plain communication.
After some shit I went through I re-opened the M-Distro eBay store. I hope that things won't go like the other time. Anyway here's the link:
You can get all M-Distro stuff either from within eBay or outside. Just check what you want, e-mail me and we'll arrange something. Paypal payments only (even outside eBay). Trades are more than welcome!!! Soon the shop along with all Migra related activities will be hosted on their own server.
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Migra is against traditional copyright. Instead I'm using this:
This work is licensed under:
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License .
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