14 live tracks for your listening pleasure
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Michael Trommer is a Toronto based producer and visual artist who has recorded for such top electronic music labels as Transmat, Interchill, Nice'N'Smooth, Dragonfly, Ultra-Vista, Instinct, Impact and Dakini, both under his own name as well as aliases such as Sans Soleil, Hydraulic and Manitou2. Always forward thinking, Michael also creates gallery-based audio installation work. One of his most recent works was a net-based audio-manipulation project which was part of the ‘from 0 to 1 and back again’ exhibition at Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt, becoming the subject of many radio specials on both Deutsche Welle and Hessischer Rundfunk. His work was recently nominated for the Prix Italia for experimental music. His field-recording based material has been featured on London’s Resonance FM, insine.net, and stasisfield.com.
As a live show, Sans Soleil was featured at the 2003 Movement Festival (a.k.a.DEMF) in support of Michael's full-length album on Detroit's legendary Transmat label. The tracks featured on Phoniq were all recorded during live shows in late 2003 and early 2004.
2005 promises to be a busy year release-wise, with 12-inches due to appear on Wave Music (NY), and DoRight (Toronto). In June, he will be creating an audio installation at the State Gallery in St. Petersburg, Russia, based on Mies van der Rohe’s Toronto Dominion Centre.