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Label: Dot. Petronilla & Co.
Released: 2023
Duration: 55:11
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Semperdepot, Wohlmut

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Michael Fischer – analog, no-effect feedback-saxophone

Side A:
recorded live May 26th 2023 at Fanzineist Art Book & Zine Fair Vienna, Semperdepot/Prospekthof
duration: 28:57

Side B:
recorded live February 15th 2023 at the opening of the exhibition ‘Infinite Monetary Machine’, Wohlmut Artspace Vienna
duration: 26:14

The equipment: the analog, no-effect feedback-saxophone works without any additional processing: two basic microphones (one inside and one outside the saxophone), two small basic amps and the respective Front-of-House amplification system of the venue.

The playing techniques on/with the instrument have been developed and refined since incorporating the acoustic phenomenon feedback into my work.

The recordings sites: The sonic possibilities of the analog, no-effect feedack-saxophone are developed in a dialogic process with the sound of the performance space and hence are influenced by the architectural features and materials of the venue:

Side A was recorded at Semperdepot/Prospekthof, a 30m high space, with an appr. 400m² egg-shaped ground-floor, segmented by 4 galleries with walkways. The music was recorded on the ground floor. The Semperdepot/Prosepekthof was built in 1874-77 and served as a production site for theater decorations and scenery till 1952. Today it is administered by the Acadamy of Fine Arts Vienna and used for exhibitions, presentations and different artistic events. https://hiddenarchitecture.net/semperdepo/

Side B was recorded at Wohlmut, an experimental art space focused on visual and fine arts in Vienna’s 2nd district, curated by Dayan Ozan Özoglu and Deniz Bezer. The space is about 6m high, about 120m² with plastered brick walls and tiled floor, two columns and windows on the opposite side of the speaker. Around exhibitions, Wohlmut hosts public and closed events, concerts, readings, performances, screenings, talks and presentations.
https://wohlmut.org

Michael Fischer, musician, composer, has been working since the 90s on the language immanence of sounds and their sculptural and dramatic evidence in the areas of Free Improvised / Experimental Music on the tenor saxophone and, in collaboration with poets in experimental poetry, on ad hoc soundscapes for radio art pieces, as well as Instant Composition Conductor on ad hoc conducting. Numerous cooperations with artists/collectives in the fields of literature, dance, performance, visual media and with protagonists of Free Improvised and Experimental Music. Festival appearances in Europe, Lebanon, Canada, USA and Japan (Wien Modern, Moers Festival, High Zero Festival, Ad Libitum Festival a.m.o.). Beneath initiating numerous ensembles like Bagg*Fish (Sonic Circuits Festiv. Washington DC, Mozg Festiv. Warsaw), M. A. D. (Irtijal Festiv. Beirut, Faun Festiv. Brno) a.o., he is founder and artistic director of the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (2004) and developed, conducting also numerous international improvisation orchestras, his individual practice of Instant Composition Conducting. MF held guest lectures at the Johns Hopkins Univ. Baltimore, Univ. of California Irvine, Newcastle Univ. GB, Janáček Akademy of Music and Performing Arts Brno, Music Academy Univ. of Montenegro, Univ. of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Univ. of Applied Arts Vienna, Bruckner Univ. Linz, Architecture Dept. Univ. of Liechtenstein a.o.. He is member of the Austrian Society of Fine Artists/Künstlerhaus Wien (est. 1860), the Grazer Autorinnen Autorenversammlung, as well as founding-member of Orange 94.0FM - community radio station Vienna.
In 1999 he began to integrate the acoustic phenomenon feedback into his work and subsequently developed the feedback-saxophone, an analog electro acoustic instrument, with further development at ZKM - Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe or STEIM Amsterdam, with numerous international presentations at festivals, venues, art spaces and galeries.

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