SUMMERLOVE

Michael's blog for his late-girlfriend, love and partner, Summer Serafin. The scattershot beginnings of a memoir...

BIPOLAR EXPLORER / TREMOSPHERE

Michael's bands - acclaimed NYC-based dreampop trio Bipolar Explorer and celebrated NYC shoegaze duo Tremosphere. News, audio, video and links to their nine albums on Slugg Records.

Bipolar Explorer's page on Wikipedia.

"COLLECTED PLAYS"

The first anthology of Michael's works for the theatre, Collected Plays, published by The Ginger Press, avail via Amazon.

CAMP Radio Show #28 

The latest edition of Bipolar Explorer's show, “The Other Room”, for France's great CAMP Radio aired yesterday and is now archived for on demand listening on the station's MixCloud, here

Tremosphere live on WFMU (listen) 

Bipolar Explorer's sister band, Tremosphere, recorded a live set for broadcast on WFMU's “Dark Night of the Soul” program at the station on November 19th. The show aired yesterday, November 28th, and is now archived for on demand, here. The band's segment opens the 4th and final hour with the live eight-song set and Dark Night's host Julie follows it up with 20 more minutes of Tremosphere tracks from their three albums and one of their singles. 

 

CAMP Radio Show #27 

The latest edition of Bipolar Explorer's fortnightly show for France's great CAMP Radio aired yesterday and is now archived on MixCloud for on-demand listening here

Tremosphere live on WFMU 

Bipolar Explorer's sister band, Tremosphere, recorded a live eight-song set yesterday at WFMU for broadcast next week on their “Dark Night of the Soul” program. Huge thanks to Dark Night's host, Julie, and to the great Irene Trudel for engineering the session. More news soon…

November 13th 

Happy Birthday, little sweetheart. 

CAMP Radio Show #26 

The latest edition of Bipolar Explorer's fortnightly show for France's CAMP Radio aired yesterday November 7th, and is now archived on MixCloud for on demand listening here

New Bipolar Explorer track to premiere November 11th... 

Michael and the band have been invited to compose and record a track for Italian ambient project The Chelidon Frame's monthly soundscape show on CAMP Radio. The new track - “Radio Times” - will premiere as part of the hour-long broadcast on Saturday November 11th and be archived on MixCloud shortly after broadcast here

CAMP Radio Show #25 

The latest edition of Bipolar Explorer's fortnightly show for France's CAMP Radio aired yesterday, October 24th and is now archived for on demand listening on MixCloud here

CAMP Radio Show now bi-monthly 

Bipolar Explorer's show for France's CAMP Radio is expanding and will now by fortnightly - new editions every two weeks. The latest aired yesterday and is now archived on MixCloud for on demand listening here

Bipolar Explorer featured worldwide on Framework Radio 

Michael and the band were hugely honored to have been featured this week on the legendary Framework Radio program. 

Three tracks - “Across the Water, parts 1 & 2” and “Matins” - from the band's latest album In The Hours Left Until Dawn - were folded into the show's longform soundscape. 

Hear the program in its entirety here and/or find it over the week in broadcasts live on London's Resonance FM, The Netherland's Concertzendor, KORG (Oregon), KCSB (Southern California), KFJC (Northern California), Soundart Radio (Devon , UK), Radio Nouspace (Vancouver) and more…