Michael Vick BiO
Michael Vick aka Michael aTonal Vick, is a multi-instrumentalist & as Guitar Player magazine dubbed him, the Ringleader behind the Fretless Guitar Festival. In Asian circles, he is also known as vVv, often with Free-Bananas & enjoys performing & composing on what he calls extended & limited guitars, basses, micro-keys, Glissentar, bansuri, polychord, ipAds, percussionz, found-objects, nature & vox to create SoundAsMusic. Vick’s style is hard to describe because it can range from the conventional to the abstract utilizing microtonal tuning systems & natural sounds to the beyond.
Michael's formal musical training began at 14 when he was invited to study classical guitar and music theory at the College of Charleston under Michael Poulos and in Master Classes with Frederic Hand. Around this time, he was also invited to study with Christopher Berg at the University of South Carolina delving deeper into advanced classical guitar and compositional techniques. Over the years that followed, Michael worked under Carroll Brown at Oceansong Records as a recording engineer, and then later moved to Atlanta, Georgia and became a freelance recording engineer and studio musician working frequently at the Ginn Music Group under various roles. Vick also appeared on the Atlanta cable-access show KTV back then as a solo artist featuring his music & spoken-word “theatre”; plus alongside his mighty-group
Wit’s End w/ James Webb & Patrick Jenkins.
As an artist, Michael has performed with the American Festival of Microtonal Music, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Wayang Modern Shadow Puppet Theater, Footlight Players, Pat Curtis Jazz Trio, C of C Guitar Quartet, Modern India w/ Debashish Bhattacharya etc, and he has performed at the Spoleto Festival, Hotlanta's Acid Jazz Festival, American Festival of Microtonal Music, NYC Fretless Guitar Festival (which he founded in 2005), Gagliarchives FM, Shawn Lane 10 Year Memorial Celebration in Memphis, Asheville Electro-Music Festival, National Slide Guitar Festival & the Mountain Skies Festival etc. vVv has also toured and recorded as Wit’s End, The Michael Vick Trip, Bass Fight (w/ Benjamin Funk Johnson), MusicaMunadana.TV (w/ G5 on Gamelan ) and VVVEAD (w/ Todd Campbell aka
Electro Acoustic Drummer).
For his work with fretless guitars & microtonal/xenharmonic tuning systems, MaV has been featured around the world in books, magazines & all over the web, as well as; on tv & radio all masquerading as a “casual” influencer for decades, and for over 15 years he has taught a course of his own creation at Furman University in SC called Tuning Systems & the Aural Experience. Through his work w/ FU & the AFMM; Michael was instrumental in bringing Johnny Reinhard’s revered microtonal/tuning systems archive to Furman’s Special Collections, & in 2021, Reinhard & Vick started the online music resource Microtonal University aka MU which has students, staff & faculty from all over the globe & has featured world premieres of musical works & has broad & open discussions with leaders in the field of microtonal music.
Vick has released over 20 CDs & numerous recordings on his label SoundAsMusic & can be heard on the compilations: World's Fretless Guitarists: Village Of The Unfretted (w/ Ron Thal/Bumblefoot, David Fiuczynski/Fuze, Ned Evett & Elliot Sharp/E#), Artists For Charity: Guitarists 4 The Kids (w/ Robert Fripp, Steve Lukather, Mattias IA Eklundh & Pierre Bensusan,) and Unplugged & Unfretted: A Collection Of The World's Acoustic Fretless Guitarists (w/ Neil Haverstick, Kevin Kastning, Cenk Erdogan & Edward Powell). MaV has also released music w/ eclectic-Memphis-bassist MonoNeon, & he has been featured on various label compilations including Spectropol Records, Unfretted Records & ClassWarKaraoke at the FreeMusicArchive etc. Michael has numerous full-length releases & singles out on all major global services for music as - Michael Vick, Michael aTonal Vick, The Michael Vick Trip, Wit’s End, MusicaMundana.TV, VEAD & VVVEAD all by way of Free-Bananas.
MV is available for all types of performances, workshops, recordings or variations, & he is sponsored by Godin Guitars (Glissentar), FreeNoteMusic (Just Intonation Guitars) &
AFMM (Board/Artist/MU)
Contact mv - soundasmusicmvick@gmail.com
"Not only has he broken free of the 12 tone Western system, he has long been an advocate of found music, using ordinary objects, and even machines, to create music that fits into his infinitely pitched worldview."
AbstractLogix
"He plays fretted and fretless guitars, and sometimes his music takes a little getting used to.”
FretNet
“This semiserious release will have you rethinking your own musical philosophy!
Weirdly, addictively mesmerizing.”
ProgressionMagazine
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www.MichaelAtonalVick.com
www.SoundAsMusic.com
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For over a decade Michael Vick has taught a microtonal tuning course he created called
"Tuning Systems & the Aural Experience" at Furman University in Greenville, SC, & it is always a highlight of the participating students journey at the university. Through this course Vick has brought in such world renowned microtonalist Kraig Grady, Stephen James Taylor, John Schneider, Tolgahan Coğulu, Terumi Narushima, Johnny Reinhard & many others for his students to learn about tuning systems dating back thousands & thousands of years…….VariousCoursePhotos
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Michael Vick aka Michael aTonal Vick, is a multi-instrumentalist & as Guitar Player magazine dubbed him, the Ringleader behind the Fretless Guitar Festival. In Asian circles, he is also known as vVv, often with Free-Bananas & enjoys performing & composing on what he calls extended & limited guitars, basses, micro-keys, Glissentar, bansuri, polychord, ipAds, percussionz, found-objects, nature & vox to create SoundAsMusic. Vick’s style is hard to describe because it can range from the conventional to the abstract utilizing microtonal tuning systems & natural sounds to the beyond.
Michael's formal musical training began at 14 when he was invited to study classical guitar and music theory at the College of Charleston under Michael Poulos and in Master Classes with Frederic Hand. Around this time, he was also invited to study with Christopher Berg at the University of South Carolina delving deeper into advanced classical guitar and compositional techniques. Over the years that followed, Michael worked under Carroll Brown at Oceansong Records as a recording engineer, and then later moved to Atlanta, Georgia and became a freelance recording engineer and studio musician working frequently at the Ginn Music Group under various roles. Vick also appeared on the Atlanta cable-access show KTV back then as a solo artist featuring his music & spoken-word “theatre”; plus alongside his mighty-group
Wit’s End w/ James Webb & Patrick Jenkins.
As an artist, Michael has performed with the American Festival of Microtonal Music, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Wayang Modern Shadow Puppet Theater, Footlight Players, Pat Curtis Jazz Trio, C of C Guitar Quartet, Modern India w/ Debashish Bhattacharya etc, and he has performed at the Spoleto Festival, Hotlanta's Acid Jazz Festival, American Festival of Microtonal Music, NYC Fretless Guitar Festival (which he founded in 2005), Gagliarchives FM, Shawn Lane 10 Year Memorial Celebration in Memphis, Asheville Electro-Music Festival, National Slide Guitar Festival & the Mountain Skies Festival etc. vVv has also toured and recorded as Wit’s End, The Michael Vick Trip, Bass Fight (w/ Benjamin Funk Johnson), MusicaMunadana.TV (w/ G5 on Gamelan ) and VVVEAD (w/ Todd Campbell aka
Electro Acoustic Drummer).
For his work with fretless guitars & microtonal/xenharmonic tuning systems, MaV has been featured around the world in books, magazines & all over the web, as well as; on tv & radio all masquerading as a “casual” influencer for decades, and for over 15 years he has taught a course of his own creation at Furman University in SC called Tuning Systems & the Aural Experience. Through his work w/ FU & the AFMM; Michael was instrumental in bringing Johnny Reinhard’s revered microtonal/tuning systems archive to Furman’s Special Collections, & in 2021, Reinhard & Vick started the online music resource Microtonal University aka MU which has students, staff & faculty from all over the globe & has featured world premieres of musical works & has broad & open discussions with leaders in the field of microtonal music.
Vick has released over 20 CDs & numerous recordings on his label SoundAsMusic & can be heard on the compilations: World's Fretless Guitarists: Village Of The Unfretted (w/ Ron Thal/Bumblefoot, David Fiuczynski/Fuze, Ned Evett & Elliot Sharp/E#), Artists For Charity: Guitarists 4 The Kids (w/ Robert Fripp, Steve Lukather, Mattias IA Eklundh & Pierre Bensusan,) and Unplugged & Unfretted: A Collection Of The World's Acoustic Fretless Guitarists (w/ Neil Haverstick, Kevin Kastning, Cenk Erdogan & Edward Powell). MaV has also released music w/ eclectic-Memphis-bassist MonoNeon, & he has been featured on various label compilations including Spectropol Records, Unfretted Records & ClassWarKaraoke at the FreeMusicArchive etc. Michael has numerous full-length releases & singles out on all major global services for music as - Michael Vick, Michael aTonal Vick, The Michael Vick Trip, Wit’s End, MusicaMundana.TV, VEAD & VVVEAD all by way of Free-Bananas.
MV is available for all types of performances, workshops, recordings or variations, & he is sponsored by Godin Guitars (Glissentar), FreeNoteMusic (Just Intonation Guitars) &
AFMM (Board/Artist/MU)
Contact mv - soundasmusicmvick@gmail.com
"Not only has he broken free of the 12 tone Western system, he has long been an advocate of found music, using ordinary objects, and even machines, to create music that fits into his infinitely pitched worldview."
AbstractLogix
"He plays fretted and fretless guitars, and sometimes his music takes a little getting used to.”
FretNet
“This semiserious release will have you rethinking your own musical philosophy!
Weirdly, addictively mesmerizing.”
ProgressionMagazine
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www.MichaelAtonalVick.com
www.SoundAsMusic.com
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For over a decade Michael Vick has taught a microtonal tuning course he created called
"Tuning Systems & the Aural Experience" at Furman University in Greenville, SC, & it is always a highlight of the participating students journey at the university. Through this course Vick has brought in such world renowned microtonalist Kraig Grady, Stephen James Taylor, John Schneider, Tolgahan Coğulu, Terumi Narushima, Johnny Reinhard & many others for his students to learn about tuning systems dating back thousands & thousands of years…….VariousCoursePhotos
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Spotifying Michael Vick : Listen, Hear
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John Cage On Soul Train album by
MonoNeon & MichaelVick, listen below for Free.....
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More Free Medias/Videos etc below but 1st a few sites that sell many of Michael Vick's full-length CDs & Digital-Downloads from his early years up too his newest ProNounced-VVV....... XenHarmoniX, heaR~$$$
ALL Michael Vick CDs & Digital Downloads
Below are a few from iTunes w/ Vick using different names.......
iTunes Michael aTonal Vick
iTunes The Michael Vick Trip
iTunes Michael Vick
iTunes VVVEAD
iTunes
MusicaMundana.TV
iTunes WIT'S END
Sniff, Sniff..... Smell La Mitten
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"Classic" The Michael Vick Trip
Floating On A Time-Scale InBetween
Order Michael Vick's newest recording ProNounced Triple-V (VVV) on
CD or as a Digital-Download from the various sites below & all over.
Listen for FREE below, thanks & enjoy.......
ProNounced Triple-V (VVV) full-on BandCamp.com
ProNounced Triple-V (VVV) on Spotify.com
ProNounced Triple-V (VVV) on iTunes.com
ProNounced Triple-V (VVV) on Amazon.com
ProNounced Triple-V (VVV) on Play.Google.com
ALL Michael Vick CDs & Digital Downloads
Below are a few from iTunes w/ Vick using different names.......
iTunes Michael aTonal Vick
iTunes The Michael Vick Trip
iTunes Michael Vick
iTunes VVVEAD
iTunes
MusicaMundana.TV
iTunes WIT'S END
Sniff, Sniff..... Smell La Mitten
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"Classic" The Michael Vick Trip
Floating On A Time-Scale InBetween
Order Michael Vick's newest recording ProNounced Triple-V (VVV) on
CD or as a Digital-Download from the various sites below & all over.
Listen for FREE below, thanks & enjoy.......
ProNounced Triple-V (VVV) full-on BandCamp.com
ProNounced Triple-V (VVV) on Spotify.com
ProNounced Triple-V (VVV) on iTunes.com
ProNounced Triple-V (VVV) on Amazon.com
ProNounced Triple-V (VVV) on Play.Google.com
"There is an amazing amount of sounds and a huge variety of performances which make this one of the most varied and interesting fretless guitar albums to date."
PronVVV at Unfretted.com
PronVVV at Unfretted.com
"Not only has he broken free of the 12 tone Western system, he has long been an advocate of found music, using ordinary objects, and even machines, to create music that fits into his infinitely pitched worldview." AL
PronVVV at AbstractLogix
PronVVV at AbstractLogix
“…..this semiserious release will have you rethinking your own musical philosophy!
Weirdly, addictively mesmerizing.” WB
Progression Magazine Winter 2017 full review of PronVVV
Weirdly, addictively mesmerizing.” WB
Progression Magazine Winter 2017 full review of PronVVV
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The above vid is a rare-treat to hear MV on a Rod Poole Just-fretted acoustic guitar designed by Ron Sword down in Florida.......
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Check out this duo EP w/ wunderkind bassist MonoNeon & Michael Vick called
John Cage on Soul Train
Also, give a listen to MV w/ MonoNeon on his Southern Visionary album.....
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Free-Bananas
The above vid is the Wayang Modern Shadow Puppets under the guidance of Geoff G5 Cormier near the beach....
SoundCloud below
Key of VVV-microtonal tuning-minute audio
+ Free-Bananas & Kindness=Love=Understanding=Truth & Honesty for ALL