Michael Peters
Michael Peters is a German guitarist and composer who often uses livelooping in his solo work. His popular ambient album 'Stretched Landscape #1' and his experimental sound diary album 'MY2K', containing 366 sound miniatures, both received critical acclaim from the renowned WIRE magazine.
The store sells several other solo CDs and mp3 downloads of Michael's music, as well as his first released guitar / livelooping music, on the 1984 album from the band 'Camera Obscura'. Some of his ambient synthesizer music from the same time (some of it including livelooping) is available for download.
More information, extensive samples, and videos available from www.michaelpeters.de
michael peters - my2k (cdr)
German Ambient composer/guitarist Michael Peters follows his acclaimed Burning Shed debut album Streched Landscape with MY2K, an intriguing collage of improvisations, found sound and ambient experiments recorded daily during the year 2000.
Tracksa sound diary for the year 2000 (64.58) Creditscomposed, performed, found, treated, recorded, produced,
Burning Shed CDRsBurning Shed CDRs are burnt to order and packaged in a stylish rubber stamped cardboard sleeve with card inlay. 
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Compiled from 366 ten-second pieces of music or field recordings (all of which have been arranged into 53 weekly sections), Cologne musician Michael Peters's absorbing and amusing recorded diary for the beginning of the new millennium is packed with a wild mix of sounds, some treated by Peters to produce a Zappaesque form of musique concrete. While some pieces are self-explanatory (giveaway titles include "Sabine Writes With A Big Felt Pen On A Large Sheet Of Paper"), others such as "Granulated Stone On Wood Like Barking Dogs Over Linear Base Colors" only make sense once you actually hear the item in question. Shades of John McLaughlin, Can and Frank Zappa flit through the musical sections, but Peters's project has to be heard in its entirety - if only to wait for track 53, which somehow manages to regurgitate his entire recorded year in ten seconds flat.
WIRE January 2005 issue
Thanks so very much for making this collection available, Burning Shed! I have always been fascinated by the 'record ten seconds a day' project - that Michael and some other musicians, individually, managed to keep going throughout the year 2k - so much so that I spent quite some time 'researching' it, and then wrote an exhaustive article about it, partly history, partly review (for those interested, here's the link: http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00517.php ). This release is one of the few completed sounding 'My2k' results. It is - without doubt - a unique document, as well as a very fine record to listen to ... A must have!
Harold Schellinx