Weave
Schumacher's ear for melodic, harmonic and rhythmic hooks is as sharp as George Clinton's.
Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic
Weave
Entr'acte © 2009
contact: www.entracte.co.uk
 

Stories
Stories seeps into your consciousness like a well-designed piece of furniture. At first you realize its presence in the room, but until you sit in it, you don't realize its exquisite detail and thoughtful construction.
Matthew Wuethrich, Dusted Magazine
Stories
Quecksilber © 2004
contact: quecksilber-music.com
 

Room Piece
Schumacher stands out from the crown by humanizing this icy genre [glitchworks], unleashing its potential into sheer digital beauty.
Kenneth Goldsmith, NY Press

Room Piece

This music positively glistens - the sheer beauty of the sound events and the uniformly excellent mixing of the whole are simply breathtaking.
Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic

 

Room Pieces
XI © 2003
contact: xirecords@compuserve.com
 

Four Stills
Coursing and static, highly detailed and unsettlingly sumptuous, each track becomes the aural equivalent of a genre scene: self-contained, highly referential, at once freighted with and disassociated from levels of interpretation that give way to the pleasure of pure music in sound.
Alan Lockwood, The Brooklyn Rail
Four Stills
Sedimental © 2001
contact: doss5@aol.com
 

 
Guitar Electrica
01- 01- 18, an improvisation
Quakebasket © 2001
contact: tim@lostplanet.com
 
Fidicin Drones
Schumacher...allows sounds rather than their source to hold the attention, and his results are outstanding.
Julian Cowley, The Wire
Fidicin Drones
Colorful Clouds for Acoustics © 1998
contact: cloudytalk@aol.com
 

 
Monsters
Stephen Vitiello, Tronzo
New Albion © 2005 / out of print
 

 
Suspension  + Bonus Remixes
Oren Ambarchi
With Jim O'Rourke, Tim Barnes, Phill  Niblock (USA), Michael J Schumacher, Brendan Walls, Pimmon
Released  on Staubgold, Germany (LP 2002)
 

 
London Fix
Tom Hamilton
 

Donald Miller Trio
Just when I thought I was getting too jaded for this reviewing lark, here comes something to knock me off my perch. This LP is, quite simply, a bloody cracker.
Bruce Russell, Opprobrium Mag
Here Below
Charles Curtis: Fender Jazzmaster, sine wave generator
Michael J. Schumacher: prepared G3T Hohner, with custom bow
Donald Miller: prepared Fender Telecaster, with magnetic bowsKlang Industries © 1998
out of print
 

Flood
A profound and beautiful demonstration of the outer limits of white-noise (de)composition...
Alternative Press
Flood
Donald Miller & Michael J. Schumacher
Warpodisc © 1998
 

 
Various Artists
Tempo Technik Teamwork
Staubgold 2004
 

 

Sub Rosa
an anthology of noise & electronic music
third a-chronology

curated by Guy-Marc Hinant
Sub Rosa @ 2004
contact: www.subrosa.net

 

 
A Call for Silence
curated by Nicolas Collins
Sonic Arts Network @ 2003
contact: sonicartsnetwork.org
 

 
lowercase-sound 2002
curated by Nicolas Collins
Bremsstrahlung Recordings @ 2002
contact: lowercase-sound.com
 

 
Deploration  : a pointless compilation
Dual (Charles Curtis / Michael J. Schumacher)
(Pointless Cassettes, 1990
 

 
Cyclops nuke
Dogbowl
All songs written by Dogbowl aka Stephen Tunney
Flan released in 1992 by Shimmy-Disc Produced and engineered by Kramer at Noise New Jersey. Assistent Engineer: Ron Paul
Musicians: Dogbowl, Lee Ming Tah, Michael Schumacher, Christopher Tunney, Kramer, Race Age
Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain 1991 Shimmy-Disc
 

 
Room Piece