Michael Northam

Michael Northam is an American sound artist who lives the mountains of southern Oregon. Michael's focus with sound and installations is to capture the inexplicable sensation of 'experience' as manifested in the medium of sound. This is realized through organic, intuitive sound works in the form of performances, site specific works, compositions and installations. He has collaborated with many artists throughout his two decade career and has produced works in several different countries. He has composed work for theater, dance and film with over 20 CDs published internationally of his own intuitive compositions. Michael is not an instrumentalist, but a careful listener and painstaking studio craftsman, whose work can range from combining hundreds of layers of material into a complex kaleidoscopic soundscape to finding sustained moments within natural field recordings of an intricate and intimate interior landscape.