For the past 6 years, Michael has been on staff at la Scene Musicale, acting as new editor, and news contributor. Michael has collaborated choreographer Jennifer Mascall and videographer Jacqueline Levitin on a feature work for the Off Centre Dance Company entitled "Just Barely", which premiered at SFU Burnaby Theatre on April 8 and 9, 2005. Michael has also worked with plunderphnics composer, John Oswald on a concert inspired by Glenn Gould for the Vancouver New Forms festival, which saw the premiere of his work "Gouldberg Variations" on September 15, 2005. He has joined forces with the Vancouver spoken word artists Barbara Adler on two unique pieces entitled "Baby 81" and "Little Museum". "Little Museum" has since been recorded on the spoken word CD Flusterblush released in July 2006. Over the years 2005 and 2006, Michael wrote and adapted a feature-length spoken-word opera entitled "Generation X- the Opera", which was based on a novel by Canadian author Douglas Coupland. "Generation X- the Opera", premiered on March 17, 2006, at the SFU Burnaby Theatre, in Burnaby BC. In February, 2007, Michael premiered three speech melody compositions titled "Warnings from Punk Rock 101", "West-Coast Cats", and "Dying Ain't Bad Y'all" at the Western Front in Vancouver BC, for the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Michael also contributed as one of four composers in a multi-interdisciplinary work entitled "Triaspora", performed at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on September 21–22, 2007 by Juno Award nominated performers Orchid Ensemble and Moving Dragon Dance, with multimedia by Aleksa Dulic and Kenneth Newby. Most recently, the production was shown at the National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa Canada as part of BC Scene   In the spring of 2010, Michael premiered a newly commissioned work ("Tombeau for an Ancient Chinese General") for dance at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) as part of the International CanAsian Dance Festival, which was performed by Moving Dragon Dance and the TorQ Percussion Quartet.