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Michael William Gilbert: Wheel Within the Wheel

Read "Wheel Within the Wheel" reviewed by Sue Yang

by Sue Yang
July 8, 2026

A circle is never only a circle in Michael William Gilbert's Wheel Within the Wheel. It is a ritual form, a listening mechanism, a rotating architecture of memory and pulse. Across six compact pieces, Gilbert turns repetition into inquiry: not the mechanical recurrence of an unchanged object, but the gradual revelation of difference within return. The album's title provides more than a visual metaphor. Wheel Within the Wheel is built from nested cycles: loops inside loops, pulses inside ...

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Michael William Gilbert: Radio Omnibus

Read "Radio Omnibus" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid
June 26, 2018

Computers and technology have changed our lives in so many ways that it is hard to fathom the speed in which our lives have transformed. This rapid transformation also applies to music. Home studios and digital distribution for the modern-day artist allows more musicians per capita to get their music heard on a larger scale. What has also changed is the ability for musical instruments and sound emulation of acoustic instruments to capture the warmth and natural acoustics of an ...

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Michael William Gilbert: Radio Omnibus

Read "Radio Omnibus" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 5, 2018

Much electronic music seems to fall into three distinct categories: 1) droning angst, dredged from the primordial soup, given a beat to get tribal to; 2) wash upon wave upon wash of textured android spirituality; 3) hugely unlistenable, period. But Michael William Gilbert's Radio Omnibus has a humor to it, and where humor is, lies a heart behind it. Gilbert, a retired Advisor for Technological Initiatives and Services for the University of Massachusetts, doesn't engage in electronica with ...

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Michael William Gilbert: I Can See From Here

Read "I Can See From Here" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 24, 2011

If the NPR radio show, Hearts of Space, were hipper and less ambient, it would fall over itself playing Michael William Gilbert's I Can See From Here. The recording is a 14-part suite, made up of Gilbert compositions synthetically prepared by the composer. Gilbert plays all instruments--that is, synthesizer, computer samples and loops, as well as percussion, and is joined on “Amerikan Dream" by guitarist Peter Kaukonen, the younger brother of Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna). ...