Micah Gaugh

Micah Gaugh of Burnt Sugar

Micah Gaugh has collaborated with Lady Miss Kier from Dee-lite, Arto Lindsay, Marc Ribot, James ‘Blood’ Ulmer, Melvin Gibbs, Vernon Reid and others in the studio and live performance.  He  has written two  operas ‘Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights’ and a piece for the artist Rirkrit Taravanija, music for the Matthew Barney movie ‘Di Lama Lamina’ and a choral work commissioned by the Chiesa Rosa in Milan.  James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins) collaborates with Micah on remixes for the Sounds, Ladytron, and The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs.

Micah has also acted in the season five premier of  ‘Sex in the City’ and is in a play entitled ‘American Book of the Dead.’  He paints and writes novels.

Micah Gaugh is the progenitor of Puppet.  Puppet is an opera that follows the relationship of a man living in New York then going to Denmark to find love.  The love is lost and he returns home.  The music for Puppet was released as “Everything” on Matthew Herbert’s music label Accidental records.

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