UPCOMING
??/??/21 - New work for guitarist/performer Callum Coomber (Manchester, UK).
??/??/20 - Developing an extended version of solo performance heart the size of a world.
17/10/20 - Kompass Ensemble premieres new work entitled 'imagine telling another body to do something in today's day and age' @ depot.K (Freiburg, DE).
??/10/20 - Callum Coomber premieres new work @ FACT Liverpool (Liverpool/Manchester, UK).
12/10/20 - New online work featuring Callum Coomber entitled 'Arthropod Meditation', commissioned by FACT Liverpool (Liverpool/Manchester, UK).
??/09/20 - New online work for Bastard Assignments' 'Lockdown Jams' series (London, UK).
19/09/20 - Music for dance: Grind Me by Marcelo Doño @ Lichthof Theatre (Hamburg, DE).
18/09/20 - Premiere of new music for dance: Grind Me by Marcelo Doño @ Lichthof Theatre (Hamburg, DE).
07/09/20 - Guest mix on Rinse FM for Furious Styles (London, UK).
PAST
03/07/20 - Guest mix on NTS Radio for Astral Plane Recordings (via Los Angeles, CA). Listen back here (from 1hr30' onwards).
02/06/20 - Club MICHAELBRAILEY, a radio show/club mix celebrating my EP release on ma3azef.live (via Cairo, EG). Listen back here.
29/05/20 - New EP the broken heart is more than a metaphor it is terraforming in action released via Astral Plane Recordings (Los Angeles, CA). More info here.
27/05/20 - remove protection premiered via Mixmag. Listen here.
20/05/20 - waters of love music video premieres via AQNB - MICHAELBRAILEY’s ‘waters of love’ romanticizes the post-digital through lo-fi pop psychoacoustics.
11/05/20 - I am a recipient of FACT Liverpool's 'FACT Together' online commissioning scheme. I will be developing a new audiovisual work with performer Callum Coomber (via Liverpool, UK).
13/03/20 - Electric Clouds with Iceboy Violet released via Bandcamp. Listen here.
11/03/20 - Silvia Lucas performs THE BROKEN HEART IS MORE THAN A METAPHOR IT IS TERRAFORMING IN ACTION @ IABF (Manchester, UK).
09/03/20 - Radio show w/ guest Silvia Lucas from 6-8pm on Limbo Radio (Manchester, UK).
28/02/20 - Zakia Fawcett premieres Airborne Spatial Imaging Device for solo amplified viola and audio as part of Dialogues Festival @ Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh, UK).
26/02/20 - Playback of track remove protection @ Orchesterstudio, HfMT - Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Hamburg, DE).
15/02/20 - DJ set @ HfMT - Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Hamburg, DE).
15/02/20 - Silvia Lucas premieres THE BROKEN HEART IS MORE THAN A METAPHOR IT IS TERRAFORMING IN ACTION for solo piano, Agua de Florida, audio/video and standing audience @ Multifunktionsstudio, HfMT - Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Hamburg, DE).
07/12/19 - DJ set @ Kampnagel KMH (Hamburg, DE).
17/11/19 - I perform Be More Katydid, a performance lecture/guided meditation for solo performer, two videos, audio and audience @ Multifunktionsstudio, HfMT - Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Hamburg, DE).
08/11/19 - I Appreciate Your Concern released via Bandcamp. Listen here.
02/11/19 - DJ set @ Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (Hamburg, DE).
25/10/19 - DJ set @ Kampnagel KMH (Hamburg, DE).
22/09/19 - DJ set for AYA on NTS Radio. Listen back here.
23/08/19 - Last Phone Call released via Bandcamp. Listen here.
20/06/19 - Performing as part of 'Fracture Patterns' with Eartheater and Semiconductor @ NIAMOS (Salford, UK).
14/06/19 - I perform `,-._”-,h_ ‘e_a,”r t<`_ ,-_- t“h,e _-s-_-i’-ze -_ / o,f_ ._a “_.—w,o_.-rl-,_-d`_.-_,-“ , plus music by Larry Goves @ Snape Maltings' Aldeburgh Festival (Aldeburgh, UK). More info here.
09/06/19 - Presenting VIRTUALLYREALITY on NTS Radio with guest features from Jennifer Walshe and bod [包家巷] (Manchester, UK).
08/06/19 - VIRTUALLYREALITY presents: SWAN, featuring performances of Murat Çolak's SWAN, Catherine Lamb's Point/Wave and a live set from bod [包家巷] @ Hallé St. Michael's, Ancoats (Manchester, UK).
01/06/19 - DJ set with boygirl @ Partisan (Manchester, UK).
29/05/19 - Live set including performance of `,-._”-,h_ ‘e_a,”r t<`_ ,-_- t“h,e _-s-_-i’-ze -_ / o,f_ ._a “_.—w,o_.-rl-,_-d`_.-_,-“ @ CHUNK (Leeds, UK). More info here.
13/05/19 - VIRTUALLYREALITY presents: Care, featuring Andreas Borregaard performing Jennifer Walshe's SELF-CARE, Last Yearz Interesting Negro & Rowdy SS performing Fury1 and a live set from Iceboy Violet @ Soup Kitchen (Manchester, UK).
17/04/19 - Live set supporting Tirzah @ 24 Kitchen St. (Liverpool, UK).
12/04/19 - SHOAL perform . locator) ` ª - ddel,. . 0º¢', 4|î(&3d : .jpg "'` > -___ env<3 He‡A\R §[**`* no on-e 6 .] . at VIRTUALLYREALITY presents: Bastard Assignments, SHOAL @ IABF (Manchester, UK).
09/04/19 - Live set for VIRTUALLYREALITY/Slip: Joe Snape, Laurie & Suze, MICHAELBRAILEY, including Manchester-debut performance of `,-._”-,h_ ‘e_a,”r t<`_ ,-_- t“h,e _-s-_-i’-ze -_ / o,f_ ._a “_.—w,o_.-rl-,_-d`_.-_,-“ @ Soup Kitchen (Manchester, UK).
02/04/19 - New performance in collaboration with SHOAL and Gareth Mattey at The Lowry (Salford, UK).
28/03/19 - New solo performance entitled `,-._”-,h_ ‘e_a,”r t<`_ ,-_- t“h,e _-s-_-i’-ze -_ / o,f_ ._a “_.—w,o_.-rl-,_-d`_.-_,-“ at Wigmore Hall (London, UK).
08/03/19 - New mixfile released with accompanying interview/editorial via low-arts-club (London, UK). Listen/read here.
14/02/19 - pull me in pull me closer, an edit of 'Focus' by Charli XCX released via boygirl as part of the 'focus' Valentine's day remix pack. Featured in FACT.
14/02/19 - Solo DJ set on HEADROOM / Intervention online radio with boygirl (Manchester, UK).
31/12/18 - DJ set with boygirl @ Partisan NYE (Manchester, UK).
02/12/18 - Live supporting AMMAR 808 @ Soup Kitchen (Manchester, UK).
30/11/18 - DJ set with boygirl for New Scenery @ Ormside Projects (London, UK).
08/11/18 - DJ set with boygirl @ Stage & Radio (Manchester, UK).
24/08/18 - New performance with Kanae Mizobuchi (Strasbourg, FR) for two performers (one native-speaking and one foreign-speaking), laptops, dictation software, audio and video @ Snape Maltings (Suffolk, UK).
21/08/18 - Premiere of new work entitled close distance (testone) for Juliet Fraser (voice), Kathryn Williams (alto flute) and myself @ Snape Maltings (Suffolk, UK).
18/08/18 - New performance with Andy Ingamells for two vocalising performers and two projectors @ Snape Maltings (Suffolk, UK).
13/08/18 - I will be a Britten-Pears Young Artist in residence at Snape Maltings (Suffolk, UK) for two weeks.
05/08/18 - Live @ Band On The Wall (Manchester, UK).
27/07/18 - Live for Cartier 4 Everyone @ Drop the Dumballs (Liverpool, UK).
20/07/18 - DJ set as part of TAAE Tramlines @ Audacious (Sheffield, UK).
26/06/18 - Premiere of new work entitled Searching, Revealing for violinist Stephen Bradshaw @ RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK).
23/06/18 - The Marvolo Quartet premiere ' , " .` - tin`y piec“, `. 'es thru* the_a“,- , ` . tmosp_h ‘~ ere for amplified string quartet and audio/video for Marvolo Quartet and RNCM's Gold Medal Competition (Manchester, UK).
01/06/18 - DJ set for boygirl / Prestige Pak @ BarPop (Manchester, UK).
20/05/18 - Guest DJ set with boygirl for LOFT on NTS. Listen back here.
26/04/18 - Premiere of screen_________________dive for two solo amplified voices with smartphones, at least fifty performers with smartphones, audio and video, premiered by Callum Coomber, Rosalind Ridout and RNCM's Brand New Orchestra (Manchester, UK).
19/04/18 - B2B DJ set with JG Jour (JEROME) for boygirl @ Common (Manchester, UK).
02/04/18 - Edits 2018 released via Bandcamp. Featured in FACT.
12/03/18 - Premiere of Three Colonisations for violin, tenor saxophone and percussion in collaboration with microbiologists Prof. Joanna Verran (Manchester Metropolitan University) for PRiSM, performed by Stephen Bradshaw, Simeon Evans & Aidan Marsden (Manchester, UK).
02/03/18 - VIRTUALLYREALITY presents: Submergence / Emergence at Partisan (Manchester, UK), featuring music by Kepla, Michael Pisaro, Michael Baldwin and Ryan Patrick Maguire.
17/02/18 - Live for Mutualism alongside Gribs, IceBoy_Violet, SGNL & MtMt @ Partisan (Manchester, UK).
14/02/18 - B2B DJ set with boygirl @ Common (Manchester, UK).
23/01/18 - New mixfile for JEROME entitled green screen love songs.
02/12/17 - Guest DJ set on NTS' Castles In The Sky (Club C I T S) with Hesska. Listen back here.
17/11/17 - Late-evening DJ set as part of New Music North West @ RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
13/11/17 - SHOAL (Manchester, UK) premiere . locator) ` ª - ddel,. . 0º¢', 4|î(&3d : .jpg "'` > -___ env<3 He‡A\R §[**`* no on-e 6 .] . for four performers with smartphones at VIRTUALLYREALITY @ New Music North West @ RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
13/11/17 - performers from the RNCM premiere a bespoke arrangement of Sam Kidel's Disruptive Muzak, arranged between myself and Sam, at VIRTUALLYREALITY / New Music North West @ RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
11/08/17 - New podcast for Mutualism's Datastream series.
11/06/17 - Matt Lam performs ...without my wings... for piano, laptop and portable speaker at VIRTUALLYREALITY003 @ RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
28/04/17 - New A/V performance of Intimacy Negator (Feel Me) [Live Version] with Idiotbox at VIRTUALLYREALITY002 @ Texture, Manchester.
06/04/17 - Live collage set at Poets & Players @ Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
15/03/17 - Dave Bainbridge and Callum Coomber perform Emulation Chain for two electric guitars, laptops, loudspeakers, devices and video projection at VIRTUALLYREALITY001 @ The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester.
30/12/16 - Edits 2016 released via Bandcamp.
16/11/16 - Intimacy Negator (Feel Me) released via DISPLAY (on split cassette with WWWINGS via Apothecary Compositions) Premiered by XLR8R.
14/11/16 - Live @ The Whiskey Jar, Manchester.
27/10/16 - Matt Lam premieres ...without my wings... for piano, laptop and portable speaker as part of In Focus: Tansy Davies @ RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. Commissioned by RNCM.
02/10/16 - Ocean Hope - The Boy (MICHAELBRAILEY Remix) released via Hush Hush Records as part of the remix album Chamber Dreams: Remixes, Vol 2.
30/09/16 - Kastle - The Future (feat. MICHAELBRAILEY) released via SYMBOLS, with music video directed by J. Vash. Featured on Kastle's album Reflections. Premiered by THUMP and featured by NESTHQ.
28/07/16 - Echavox - Queen Of Heaven (MICHAELBRAILEY Remix) released via STYLSS on cassette.
12/06/16 - Premiere of new work for voice, piano and sample pad as part of Day of Song @ RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
25/05/16 - Live @ Night & Day Café, Manchester.
21/05/16 - Resonata - Pariah (feat. Madi Larson) (MICHAELBRAILEY Remix) released via Bandcamp.
20/03/16 - Live @ Matt and Phreds, Manchester.
03/03/16 - Live @ RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music 'Studio Theatre', Manchester.
03/03/16 - Matt Lam and RNCM's Brand New Orchestra premiere Piano Concerto (Full body brace, completely broken body) @ RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
28/02/16 - Weekend EP released via Hush Hush Records.
22/03/15 - Premiere of Breathing Room for four-channel system as part of Larry Goves' Decontamination #3 @ RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK.