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Michael Thomas Jackson is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. He has
been involved in notated composition, free improvisation, electronic studio work, avant rock and various group efforts for nearly twenty years. In 1985 he began recording as Cephalic Index and released some thirty cassettes over the following six years. It was during this time that Michael also operated the experimental cassette label Xkurzhen Sound out of Memphis, and later, Boston and North Carolina, with over fifty releases. Although predominantly an autodidact, Michael pursued composition studies in the mid 1990s at The North Carolina School of the Arts on a Vittorio Giannini scholarship. Here he enjoyed many successful premieres of chamber and solo works, as well as readings by members of new-music champions Speculum Musicae. As an instrumentalist, Michael is a practitioner of extended techniques on the clarinet, employing multiphonics and microtones as fundamental elements of music-making. The same spirit of experimentation has also been applied to the guitar and to analogue electronics. Over the years Michael has played in or collaborated with many groups and individuals including Viktimized Karcass, Rompecabeza, Sunny Cuba, Nomuzic, Hal McGee, Zan Hoffman, Choptsicks, the Truncheonette guitar ensemble series, Spool Ensemble, Quien Es, Thomas Dimuzio, Eugene Chadbourne, Bruce Eisenbeil, and Brian Osborne. From 2001-2003, he served on the board of directors for the non-profit arts collective Project Space 211 who commissioned his first two sound installations at the Sawtooth Center For Visual Art and The Wherehouse in Winston-Salem. In February, 2004, he was a featured artist in the 7th annual Activating The Medium Festival at SOMARTS in San Francisco. In the summer of the same year an installation project in collaboration with Mary Utley was executed through the Elsewhere Art Collaborative in Greensboro. Currently active in performing and recording, Michael resides with his family in North Carolina. Here he continues his solo work and collaborates with the pluderphonics collective Skoweyajeed, the improvising ensemble O.N.E., and releases new music through his Primecuts Recordings imprint.