Michael Yr. Jeannouxa Day is a Los Angeles based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist. His work explores intersections between electroacoustic improvisation, destructive alteration of media, primitivism, ritual, and the occult.
"My interest in live performance lies within its ability to mediate between visible and invisible worlds - what is imagined, unreal, and unimaginable."
Day earned his degree in composition at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), under the instruction of professors Ulrich Krieger, Michael Jon Fink, Marcus Schmickler (Pluramon), and Barry Schrader. Previously, Day studied composition and orchestration with Mexican born composers Dr. Daniel Catán and Dr. Bernardo Feldman and North Indian classical music at the Ali Akbar College of Music under Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (Sarod) and Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri (Tabla).
He has premiered new works by FAUST, Blixa Bargeld, Joan La Barbara, Mike Patton, Ulrich Krieger, John Colpitts, Brian Chase, Luciano Chessa, John Wiese, Annie Lewandowski, and Theresa Wong, as well as performed in Luciano Chessa's Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners and Ulrich Krieger's Sonic Boom Ensemble.
Day has performed internationally, including the KYMA 2013 International Sound Symposium in Belgium, ICMC 2014 in Greece, and by invitation in residency at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York City.
