Mikronesia (Michael McDermott) is a producer, composer, musician and sound artist. Since 1999 he has been playing theaters, clubs, parties and galleries along the U.S. East Coast as a multi-instrumentalist, laptop based performer and DJ. Mikronesia has been doing collaborative production and performance, concentrating on lending his ambient and DSP skills to artists from all musical genres. His main group, Gemini Wolf, is a seven piece electo/acoustic rock band for which Mikronesia plays keyboards, laptop and arranges all the music including traditional rock instrumentation and a string trio. In late 2006 Mikronesia co-founded a multi-disciplinary improvisation music / dance ensemble called Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd. He has released several albums that fall in the ambient / glitch realm, his most recent was Tissue Paper Ghosts released on Gears of Sand Recordings.