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The music of Alternate Mythologies is both visceral and imagick. Structured improvisations. Electroacoustic. Abstract.
In spite of the genres I have placed the music in, I do not consider it 'experimental'.
Edgard Varese said it best - "I do not write experimental music. My
experimenting is done before I write the music. Afterward it is the listener
who must experiment."
Some comments on my previous releases;
"Heaven sent." - Glenn Branca
"Crazy" - Thurston Moore
"It conjures up visions." - Brian Aldiss
"Pure heat, atavistic futurity." - Ferret
"It casts a long shadow over my inner ear." - Rik Rue
"Audio-cinematic cortical opera." - Richard Truhlar
"Takes the cutting edge of electronic music and slices through your cornea." - Joey Zone
"When the last song was finished, all the birds fell dead from the sky." - Richard Schindler
"A Salvador Dali of music." - Gypsy
Most of this work is previously unreleased. Performance and arrangements by Michael Chocholak except as noted. Thanks to Misha
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Check out my electric guitar tracks at gUITARTHROPOD
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| Spirit of the wolverine. "A boreal animal has stretched out in my soul causing me to prick my animal thoughts. Coyote's mirth, a wolf's pant, blazing hunger of tiger and cold salamander creeping toward yellow flame." - Misha from The Animal Who Eats Winter
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CD: Blood Musics
Label: M&M Music
Credits: Michael Chocholak - Percussion, bamboo flutes, sax, voice, guitar |
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| Trapped indoors for months in the cold and dark of the far northern winters often facing starvation, some would 'go windigo'; cannibalism berserker style, hallucinating friends and relatives as game on the hoof. A recurrent form of dementia so horrendous it became mythologized into a shape shifting ice monster that stalked the winter nights. In this version from a Swampy Cree tale of the subarctic Canadian territories, the demon is destroyed when Owl flies down its throat and devours its icy heart.
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CD: As Yet Untitled
Label: Realization Recordings
Credits: Michael Chocholak - Guitar, percussion, voice, erhu |
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| Inspired by Tamas Ungvary's L'aube des flammes, this is a composition in four parts from a reference in Francis Bacon's visionary New Atlantis ...
"We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds. Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have, together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep; likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp; we make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire. We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly. We have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and as it were tossing it: and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller, and some deeper; yea, some rendering the voice differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have also means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances."
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Label: previously unreleased
Credits: Michael Chocholak - Electronics |
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