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musician-compose, works on the speech immanence of sounds and their sculptural and dramatic evidence, in the field of free improvised, experimental music and sound-art.
Michael Fischer musician - composer instant composition conductor Vienna / Europe m.fischer.wuk.at/works.htm [email protected] Michael Fischer works on the speech immanence of sounds and their sculptural and dramatic evidence, in the field of free improvised, experimental music and sound-art. In 1999, he began to integrate the acoustic phenomenon feedback into his work and developed an exclusively analog, no-effect-based instrument, the feedback-saxophone, which was further developed at ZKM - Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe or STEIM Amsterdam. Founder of many ensembles, a.o. long-standing projects BAGG*FISH (High Zero Festival, Baltimore) and M.A.D. (Itrtijal Festival, Beirut).; he composes fixed-media pieces for his live- and radio-collaborations with poets in experimental poetry; in 2004 he launched the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra with performances at (Moers-Festival 2022; Wien Modern Festival, 2020). As an instant composition conductor he works with numerous international improvisation orchestras and temporary large ensembles. Since the end of the 90ies he has worked in free improvised music with key-figures such as Irene Schweizer, William Parker, Denis Charles, Peter Kowald, Burton Greene, John Edwards or Mark Sanders and with significant artists in experimental poetry. Performances and sound- installation collaborations with reknown austrian artists. His work has been presented within tours and festivals in Europe, Lebanon, Canada, USA and Japan such as High Zero/USA, Irtijal/Lebanon, Globale/ZKM Karlsruhe/GER, Mozg/PL, Ad Libitum/PL, Kaleidophon/AT, ArtActs/AT, Donaufestival/AT, Wien Modern/AT a.m.o.. Guest-lecturer at University of California Irvine, Newcastle University/UK, Peabody Institute - The Johns Hopkins University/USA, Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts Brno, University of Montenegro - music academy, a.m.o.. (website) About the feedback-saxophone (review in Salt Peanuts for the release FEED BACK SAXO FONE (Klanggalerie Wien): The feedback saxophone is strictly analog, with no processing or effects; it is a microphone capsule in the saxophone tube, connected with a rudimentary pre-amp plugged into a basic mixer, which sends the signal to the front-of-house sound system and an on-stage, on-site available feedback-trigger-speaker. It contextualizes the saxophone as/within an ephemeral sound-noise-speech sculpture, expands the sonic palette of the saxophone into otherworldly resonant and percussive spaces, and transforms its range into a twisted, noisy electric guitar, or an alien percussive orchestra speaking in a cryptic lingo. Add to that, the possessive intensity of Fischers playing, his specific techniques of feedback- textures metaphors of sound, his sonic imagination, and his great experience as a composer and improviser and you get a one-of-a-kind, unpredictable listening experience.” (Salt Peanuts, August 2024) further links: https://m.fischer.wuk.at/color_ray_saxophone.htm https://www.youtube.com/@michael_fischer_saxophone https://mastodon.art/@Michaell24 releases: https://klanggalerie.com/gg483 (Solo, 2024): https://www.interstellarrecords.at/releases/int056/ (M. A. D. Fischer Vicard Kern, 2023) https://renewable.bandcamp.com/album/el-tren (BAGG*FISH, 2024) http://klanggalerie.com/gg446 (FISCHER DUIT, 2023) https://smallforms.bandcamp.com/album/night (Solo, 2020)
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