Project

My audio- visual project is an expedition through areas of disturbed idyll – as a laboratory of contrasts and mergers.
In the performances of "black wooden journey" on drums and laptop, I approach the diverse possibilities of analog and digital media. I try to open fragments of romantic spaces. The procession and repetition of broken linear movement through "scenic spaces of yearning" is the essential experience that sets in while listening and watching.

Music-Video-Performance

I'm working on the development of an experimental, interdisciplinary complex of work in which painting, video and music permeate each other. The basic principle of my music and pictures is the combination of reproduction and improvisation.
In my music, the collage-like structure of the tracks is formed by arranged sequences as well as samples of grooves, patterns, sounds and melodies.
In my live performances, the playback material (such as loops and soundtracks) is accompanied by pre-recorded acoustic and electronic drums – accented or counteracted. The musical flow is thereby being constantly broken and destroyed. Organized structures are built up into an ordered and repetitive sequence, revisited and torn into fragments, collapsing into chaos. Audio-synchronized video clips and stills appear in visual correspondence as projection on a screen in the background .

Michael Picke

1984-87 Jazz- and Rockschool Freiburg (drum set)
1993-99 Hochschule der Künste Berlin (visual arts)
1999 Master Class

Music projects/Musik Projekte: (selection/Auswahl)

since 2010 "fritzgold"(Musik-Video-Performance)
1999-2009 MP (M.-V.Performance, Audio-Arrangements, Sounddesign)
1989-1995 "Annemarie Doyle" (Jazz, Fusion)
1989-92 "Cage Band" (Rock, Blues, Fusion)
1987-89 Duo MP / Johannes Nied (Experimentelle Improvisierte Musik)
1984-88 "Freiburg Trio" (Rock, Jazz, Fusion)