∞ About – Big Ship Audio

Big Ship is the home base for Brooklyn-based producer, audio engineer, composer, and sound artist Michael Hammond. Growing up in West Tennessee in the ’80s and ’90s, Michael began recording albums of his own music at the age of 13 on a clunky desktop computer. After a high school career spent fostering a love of math and music theory, Michael went to Princeton University, where he studied composition and computer science and played in jazz bands. At Princeton, Michael focused on creating music software and was a founding member of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (the first in the world).

Michael currently works as a house engineer at Figure 8 Recording, a beautiful and versatile studio complex in Brooklyn, and he also works closely with New Amsterdam Records, having contributed production, sound design, and mixing for many albums released on the GRAMMY-winning label. In live situations, Michael has run electronics for artists including So Percussion, yMusic, Shara Nova, the Kitchener‐Waterloo Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, Residentie Orkest, and Signal Ensemble in venues including The Kitchen, Le Poisson Rouge, Zankel Hall, and the Kaufman Center.

Michael’s own music is released under the name No Lands. The debut No Lands album (released on New Amsterdam Records) was called “one of the most thrilling headphone experiences of this year” [Tome to the Weather Machine] and named the best electronic album of the year by the Brooklyn Rail.

EMAIL MICHAEL: mwhammond (at) gmail (dot) com