Nathan Michel is an American experimental

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

ian. He primarily composes and performs his music on a laptop. He has released albums on labels such as Tigerbeat6, SKI-PP and Sonig and has collaborated with well-known laptop group DAT politics. Michel has received numerous awards for his work including a Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP and a

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Scholarship from the

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. He received his PhD in music composition from

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in 2007. Michel and his wife, Amber Papini, constitute two-thirds of the pop band

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Releases

* ''ABC DEF'' 2002 * ''Dear Bicycle'' 2003 * ''Trebly'' 2003 * ''Alphabet Series C'' 2004 * ''The Beast'' 2005

External links

Official Web site
American electronic musicians Living people Pupils of Louis Andriessen Yale School of Music alumni Princeton University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-electronic-musician-stub