WWJ stresses for variety in its creations, not only within a single track, but from one track to the next. In other words, it's usually never the same thing twice. This results in an album that, while retaining a signature sound throughout, still sounds fresh all the way through without exhausting a particular method. One piece might use drum machines, another uses looped noise for percussion. Another track might use 4 tracks of skipping CDs while yet another track is a vocal free-for-all with no added "music" whatsoever. With the World's Worst Jukebox, anything goes.

Click Here for Info on WWJ's debut release "What Would World's Worst Jukebox Do?".

Strictly a studio-based creation, each track begins its life as an idea which lends itself to various sound sources to be considered. After a usually brief testing period, performances are then performed live to cassette 4-track and built up from there in layers. Only a small amount of editing (or re-takes) is ever attempted, the desired result being one of a piece that is definately complex, yet created in mostly real time without hours of infinite "tweaking."

Extreme stereo panning is often employed. For the whole picture, headphones are encouraged.

Look for Michael's other solo project to be released here soon. A hopefully more "musical" project, the Stubborn Deaf creates electronic music that gives nods to techno, ambient, humor, and I.D.M. Admittedly more linear than WWJ, the Stubborn Deaf's "Still Listen" will be Michael's second full length release.

A native of Southern California, Michael now lives in Anacortes, WA.

A life-long fan of music, Michael began creating and recording his own in early 1997.

comments: A small list of influences that WWJ is inspired by, hopefully without being too derivative of: Negativland, Nurse With Wound, Pole, Mike Patton, Evolution Control Committee, the tape-Beatles, Over the Edge (radio show),....