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01. MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER - Room Piece XI (2002)
01. MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER - Piece in 3 Parts (2002)
02. MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER - Still (2002)
03. MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER - Untitled (1999)
04. MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER - Still (2002)
ARTIST
TITLE
Room Pieces
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
XI 127CD XI 127CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/14/2015

2003 release. Two CDs for the price of one. Much has been written to guide listeners through the course of a preconceived form. Although Michael J. Schumacher's music is distinctly his own it has been inspired by David Tudor and Morton Feldman as well as La Monte Young. Like their music it is about hearing sounds in themselves, about allowing the ear to register sonorities and then the hearing imagination may go to work, navigating amongst temporal realities and imaginary spaces, negotiating between a sense of control and perceived randomness, stasis and movement, finitude and limitlessness, Schumacher thrives on those creative tensions. At its most personal and expansive his singular music has the capacity to convey "intimate immensity." Room Piece provides a unique solution and musical experience in reference to "the room." Generated by a specific method and possessing a decidedly emotional character, Room Piece is not merely "ambient music" but creates a bridge between the "eventfulness" heard in Cage-ian and serial music, and the new American drone music that has arisen intuitively to create the sound of a vibrant universe with rich interior activity.