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Michael Schumacher

Brooklyn, NY

Born 1961, Washington, DC

I am interested in context, in defining boundaries and not crossing them. A piano piece is one thing, a sound installation another. The forms are different, the audience is different. The time, the place, it all has to be taken into account. Ultimately, we're all collaborating with whomever's participating.

1988 D.M.A. in Composition, The Juilliard School

1982 B.M. in Composition, Indiana University Composition studies with Stanley Appelbaum, Giampaulo Bracali, and La Monte Young; piano studies with Seymour Bernstein.

2001-- Director, Diapason Gallery for Sound and Intermedia, New York,

2001-- Technical Director, Engine 27 Gallery for Sound, New York

1996-2000 Director, Studio Five Beekman, New York

SELECTED RECORDINGS

2002 Four Stills, electronic music, Sedimental, Boston, CD

2000 Guitar Electrica, music for prepared electric guitar, Quakebasket, New York, CD

1999 Fidicin Drones, music for prepared electric guitar, Colorful Clouds for Acoustics, Philadelphia, CD

SELECTED INSTALLATIONS

2002 Room Piece, Lyon 2002, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France.

2001 Maspet, sound for a video by Alan Michelson, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, New York.

2000 Untitled '99, part of Volume: Bed of Sound, curated by Elliott Sharp, P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, New York.

2000 Room Piece Twenty-Four, Santa Fe International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music, College of Santa Fe.

2000 MAKMix, installation with 13 iMacs, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.

Year Awarded2001
CategoryMusic-Sound
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