Music Style Protest

Musical Influences Hunter S. Thompson, Noam Chomsky, Neil Postman

Similar Artists Sorry. Except for using common instruments, I've never heard anything like me. The furthest out on a limb I'm willing to go is I'm a cross between Flipper and Kurt Wiell. I'm open to suggestion.

Artist History I've lived in San Francisco since 1981. I moved here to both escape from the OUSA (Occupied United States of America/Sector SoCal/Orange County) and to participate in local theater. 21 years later and I'm still at both, quite handily, and almost literally painted into a corner of the peninsula. I choose Sector NoCal/San Francisco as my place to die and build community for many reason, not the least of which is my adamant unwillingness to own an accursed automobile. Also high on the list was the increased probability that I would meet and work with talented and motivated people willing to put themselves at risk to... express themselves and other not necessarily popular ideas because often we're all better off when they do. I'm happy to report that, in large part, I have and when it wasn't an ordeal it was almost always an honor.

Group Members Michael Woody & Guests

Instruments Nothing controversial. A boy, a guitar, a few friends and a computer.

Press Reviews #1- "He uses Michael Woody's black-and-white videos and Kurt Weill-inspired music to vibrantly reflect the mutlilayered qualities of the play." Mark De La Vina Mercury News November 5, 2001 re: Schrodinger's Girlfriend #2- "Kate Boyd's Magritte-meets-Chekhov set is a beautifully airy vision that curiously helps to ground this bounding play, and Michael Woody provides the campy, beguiling soundtrack for romance. Some may find Summertime's Felliniesque mélange frustrating, but for me its wonderfully frisky embrace of love's head-over-heels madness feels much like the real thing." Brad Rosenstein SF Bay Guardian July 12, 2000 re: Schrodinger's Girlfriend #3- "Watt and the Magic give the play a good shot, with Michael Woody's clever musical quotes and slide and video projections on Kate Boyd's cyclotron-sleek black-and-white set." Robert Hurwitt SF Chronicle November 5, 2001 re: Schrodinger's Girlfriend #4- "The Serfs, who include songwriter Michael Woody and acclaimed playwright John O'Keefe among their collaborators, bring the pain with a vengeance--and laughout-loud insights for an age of chaos." KR East Bay Express November, 1999 re: The Serfs #5- "Somewhere in the wild conflation of video, movement, fragmentary narrative, and Michael Woody's textured sound and music, flashes of truth about an awful chapter in our history shine through. Not all the strands connect, but this is a rich, ambitious work, as provocatively inclusive as a nightmare." Staff SF Bay Guardian August 6, 1997 re: Bake Sale #6- "Kate Boyd's Magritte-meets-Chekhov set is a beautifully airy vision that curiously helps to ground this bounding play, and Michael Woody provides the campy, beguiling soundtrack for romance. Some may find Summertime's Felliniesque mélange frustrating, but for me its wonderfully frisky embrace of love's head-over-heels madness feels much like the real thing." Brad Rosenstein SF Bay Guardian July 12, 2000 re: Summertime #7- "Michael Woody's rich sound design keeps up a steady, ominous growl or eerie wind beneath the action, when it isn't regaling us with an uplifting Renaissance motet or pulsing, Philip Glass-like runs." Robert Hurwitt SF Examiner July 1, 1996 re: Marisol #8- "Overseen by an exceptionally credentialed Exploratorium staff of composers, instrumentalists, radio technicians, and sound engineers, including Pete Richards, Pamela Winfrey, and Michael Woody, and hosted by Charles Amirkhanian, music director of KPFA radio, Speaking of Music is a fascinating forum for conversations between musicians and Amirkhanian and the attending audience." Derk Richardson SF Bay Guardian October 16, 1991 re: Speaking of Music

Location S.F., CA - USA

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