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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, Earth & 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 when he was fourteen years old when he was invited to study classical guitar and music theory at the College of Charleston under Michael Poulos and in Master Classes with Frederick 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. 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. Vick 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 & tuning systems, MaV has been featured in books, magazines & on the internet, as well as; on tv & radio, and for over 10 years he has taught a course of his own creation at Furman University 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. Vick has personally released over 15 CDs & can also be heard on the CD 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-bassist MonoNeon, & he has been featured on various label compilations including Spectropol Records & ClassWarKaraoke at the FreeMusicArchive. His newest full-length is called Sound As Music Presents Pronounced-Triple-V (vVv), & his most recent single dropped in 2021 is Observations of Love. Be on the lookout for his upcoming full-length release Undocumented Unprovoked Unprotected on Earth Day 2022 too!

"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

Michael Vick is currently endorsed by Godin Guitars & FreeNote Music.
www.MichaelVick.com
www.SoundAsMusic.com

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For the past 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.....

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

"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

"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

“…..this semiserious release will have you rethinking your own musical philosophy!
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.......

Many more videos for Free.......

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.....

Audio Sass-Aye.mp3

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