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MICHAEL FISCHER Feed Back Saxo Fone
Michael Fischer is a musician, composer andinstant composition conductor.He works on the immanence of language within sounds, their sculptural and dramatic evidence, on the tenor saxophone, the violin, on cd-player setting and conducted instant compositions, in improvised and experimental music / noise / soundscapes. Collaborations in literature - focus experimental poetry, dance, performance, installation, video. Next to his long standing collaborations such as duo Bagg*Fish with drummer Marcos Baggiani, Michael Fischer launched the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra in 2004. Since then he has elaborated an individual hand-sign practice / instant composition conducting, similar to Butch Morris conductions. As instant composition conductor he works for international improvising orchestras, temporarily large ensembles and choirs. Since 1999 he has been connecting the electro-acoustic phenomenon feedback with his sax playing thus developping the feedback saxophone. Crowd reactions at his solo shows are enthusiastic so we are proud to finally present you a solo album by this unique composer and performer. Full tracklist: 1. In Substance And Principle 2. Luminous Spectra 3. The Foundation Began 4. As The Ends Of Heaven Meet 5. Within The Starry Skies 6. Splendor Arrives 7. Sevenfold Vision Reveals 8. Broad Path 9. To Eternity 10. Out Of Silken Veils. Price: € 19,-/copy incl. worldwide shipping.
Mit Feed Back Saxo Fone lüftet er den seidenen Schleier der Maya, so dass in spektralen Licht da wo die Enden des Himmels sich treffen der breite Pad in die Ewigkeit sichtbar wird. Durch den Klang des vor 25 jähren entwickelten Feedbacksaxophons, der weit weg von Adolphe Sax und John Coltrane als elektroakustische Percussion dongt und klappert, in rhythmisierten Loops und Stufen. Wie das wippt oder surrend braust, flattert, zerrt, heult, wie geht das mit bloßem Mundwerk?
(Bad Alchemy, July 2024)
Die Stücke auf Feed Back Saxo Phone sind vielfältig, erdig, exzessiv, griffig, überirdisch, teilweise durchaus diabolisch. (...) Elektrisch, laut und mit heftigen Rückkoppelungen, die in schrillen Schreien ausarten. Die schrillen Töne mögen manche an Folter erinnern. Für mich ist es ein befreiendes Geheul, ein äußerst puristischer Ausdruck später Lebensfreude.
(Skug, July 2024)
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)
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