Michael John Wiley is an award winning multi-cultural Composer, Musician and Educator from Mexico City & Tucson, AZ.
His most recent monumental work is up for grabs.
He grew up with engineering and the fine arts as central pillars to his family, and would you guess it?
He became an“engineer of sounds”
a composer.
Michael composes large orchestral works based around his world experiences and is highly perceptive and visionary in his approach to making music. With unforgettable and sometimes haunting melodic lines, nestled within rich and meaningful flowing harmonies, he paints moving sonic pictures from his heart to our very own.
“Music has the power to cut through all of our human faults and thread them together with renewed talent and dignified purpose.”
Proposed Events
New Commissioned Work Out Now
After Seven Years Of Laborious Work
Lamento De La Frontera is a traditional liturgical Requiem consisting of eleven movements for full orchestra, grand choir, mariachi, and solo tenor and solo soprano vocalists. Michael’s composition seeks to increase public awareness and human compassion, providing incorporeal rest to the countless innocent souls who have and are still passing from this world while trying to cross some geographically imposed border. The only public statement that this work of art seeks to express is strictly humanitarian in nature, and all socio-economic, immigration and political issues aside, the themes invoked in the work are universal for any unprepared soul who has met their end while trying to cross some threshold in search of a better life for themselves and their family.
Michael is currently seeking brave directors, conductors & able patrons to help make this enormous effort and performance a reality, by incorporating it into their performance schedules and or securing funding to do the same.
Painting by Jim Covarrubias
Discography
From mathematical compositions based on whole systems like Mayan calendrical cycles, the Overtone Series, and the I-Ching, to visual evocations from sonic onslaughts and gentle cradling sounds, Michael’s discography shows a broad and pioneering approach to music, as well as his propensity and talent for large scale musical productions.
OXLAHUN 13 Compositions
Michael’s debut album, which chronicles his musical journey in and out of higher education, from bombastic and shrilling spiritual pieces, to programatic electro-acoustic music, to classical forms and deeply moving love ballads, this album is a diverse landscape of musical archetypes, which includes the original MIDI track, Tzolkin in C Major, as well as its popular choreographed Tzolkin Dance version.
TZOLKIN in C Major (Tokyo Live)
Hear the live premier performance of the Mayan mathematical masterpiece, Tzolkin in C Major, performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, which took 3rd prize in the prestigious Toru Takemitsu Orchestral Competition at the Tokyo Opera City Tower & Concert Hall Memorial in 2002, and join the ongoing cultural meditation via this audio visual presentation of the 260 day Mayan calendar.
Lamento De La Frontera (Border Requiem)
Lamento De La Frontera is a traditional liturgical Requiem consisting of eleven movements for full orchestra, grand choir, mariachi, and solo tenor and solo soprano vocalists. It was commissioned in 2007 by the Art Renaissance Initiative, who previously commissioned James DeMars, at that time professor of music composition at Arizona State University, for his renowned An American Requiem.