Michael Theroux

In the early years of the new millennium, I started work on a project entitled, “M. Illness.”  At the time I was infatuated with the works of James Joyce, Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, and the result culminated in three albums of music. Here is one song from that era entitled, “Drumstick Jacket Outcry.” The song incorporated 3 separate but distinct time signatures, with ostinato harmonies throughout, and as JM said, it “had a back beat narrow and hard to master.” (These albums will be posted in their entirety here shortly).

One of the first albums of music I created (1991). It was done with pianos, harmoniums, shortwave radio sounds, and earthquake sounds generated from a very low frequency recording apparatus. The title of the album, “Mundus Subterraneus” was taken from a rare manuscript by Athanasius Kircher (1665) that describes and details earth currents. This was an early exploration into the dissociation of rhythm, melody, and harmony. Listen here:

Mundus Subterraneus