Dissolve by Mikronesia Rooted in a practice of Deep Listening, Mikronesia presents Dissolve, an hour-long continuous sonic meditation on the nature and ultimate dissolution of self. The album was recorded…
Whether you believe you are walking into dead geographical location, which is used to get to a destination, or whether you are emerging out into a landscape that is just…
As part of my composer residency at Village of Arts and Humanities, I taught a class on Sound Mapping for the summer session. I led a class of aspiring sound…
The Goddess Lakshmi bestows abundance and prosperity and reminds us that the flow of giving and receiving are interconnected. We offer you this special recording entitled Lakshmi’s Gifts by Binaural…
In the sounds of everyday life shines the luminous ground of infinite space. Deep in the stillness of silent becoming we can experience the interconnected web, present and waiting to…
Mixes from the Field was initiated by Sharon Stewart and Michael McDermott at the end of 2016 and integrates Deep Listening, field recording, social justice, sonic ecology, meditation and music…
Set over Longwood Gardens’ expansive grounds in Kennett Square, PA, Nightscapecombines the projection mapping technology of Klip Collective with the sounds of Sun Airway, Pink Skull and Mikronesia, and leads…
Various field recordings from the Ayatana Artist Research Residency in Canada where we recorded natural sounds working with biology and animals experts.
Temporal (Michael McDermott, 2016) is a score for an ensemble of musicians playing found sound recordings captured from Temple University in Philadelphia commissioned by BEEP (THE BOYER ELECTROACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE PROJECT). Students…

Twelve hour sleep music concert footage performed by Michael McDermott at fidget. This work was inspired and patterned after the Tibetean Book of the Dead as a symbol for death/sleep/Bardo/waking…