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Michael William Gilbert

Born: August 17, 1954

Michael William Gilbert's musical journey has transcended boundaries from an early age. Growing up between Connecticut and Brussels, his ears were opened to the avant-garde experimentalism of Varese, Stockhausen, and Pierre Henry, as well as the rich tapestries of Indian, African, and Japanese traditions. But it was his immersion in Miles Davis' pioneering electric period that truly sparked his passion for melding jazz and electronic frontiers.

After studying electrical engineering at MIT and electronic music at the Boston School of Electronic Music, Gilbert's talents as a synthesizer composer, designer, and teacher took root. He served as technical director of electronic music studios at Amherst College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and UMass/Amherst. Over his career he has experience teaching electronic music at UMass Amherst, Holyoke Community College, and Hampshire College. In parallel, he had a nearly 30-year career as the Adviser for Technology Initiatives and Services at UMass Amherst before retiring to focus full-time on music.

They Are Us / They Fly Away

By Michael William Gilbert

Label: Gibex Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: They Are Us / They Fly Away

Wheel Within the Wheel

By Michael William Gilbert

Label: Gibex Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Wheel Within the Wheel; Fractal Loup; The Prayer is the Road; The Road is the Prayer; The Float; Kush Clock.

Electronic Music

By Michael William Gilbert

Label: Gibex Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Cascades; Higgs’ Other Bosons; Winter Steppes; Needle Vox; Zeitgeist; Burble Heart; Claymation; Encoded Transmissions

Radiant Departures

By Michael William Gilbert

Label: Gibex Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Radiant Departures

Michael William Gilbert: Wheel Within the Wheel

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.

Tangled Roots Project (binaural)

By Michael William Gilbert

Label: Gibex Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Moving On (binaural); Django in June (binaural); Peter’s Lament (binaural); Canon of Flowers (binaural); Sunset Road (binaural); Remembering (binaural); She Looked Back (binaural)

Endangered Species

By Michael William Gilbert

Label: Gibex Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Endangered Species

Signals

By Michael William Gilbert

Label: Gibex Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Signals

Enhanced Surround(ings) for headphones

By Michael William Gilbert

Label: Gibex Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Densities of Light / Shimmering Lake (binaural) (featuring Adam Holzman); Electric Twilight (binaural); Ratcheting (binaural); Samsara (binaural) (featuring Adam Holzman); Requiem for John (binaural); Signals (binaural); The Light That Wraps Me And All Things (binaural) (featuring Adam Holzman); Times Like These (binaural) (featuring Adam Holzman)