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FEED BACK SAXO FONE

Michael Fischer

Label: klanggalerie
Released: 2024
Duration: 50:00:00
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Tracks

In Substance And Principle, Luminous Spectra, The Foundation Began, As The Ends Of Heaven Met, Within The Starry Skies, Splendor Arrives, Sevenfold Vision Reveals,, Broad Path, To Eternity, Out Of Silken Veils

Personnel

Michael Fischer

saxophone, tenor

Album Description

**Intro:**

FEED BACK SAXO FONE is a sonic odyssey that redefines the boundaries
of the saxophone and its role in contemporary music. Austrian musician Michael Fischer's innovative instrument, dubbed the "feedback-saxophone", is a customized instrument that allows for unprecedented levels of manipulation and control of feedback generated sound textures created on this electrified, and purely analog instrument. On this album, Fischer harnesses the feedback capabilities of his instrument to create a mesmerizing soundscape that defies categorization. From eerie, atmospheric textures to dissonant, avant-garde excursions, FEED BACK SAXO FONE is a testament to the artist's fearless approach to sound and his willingness to push the limits of what is possible on his instrument.

**Music Overview:**

FEED BACK SAXO FONE is a groundbreaking album that redefines the saxophone and its role in contemporary music. Austrian musician Michael Fischer's innovative instrument, the "feedback-saxophone", allows for unprecedented levels of manipulation and control, creating a unique sonic landscape that is both mesmerizing and unsettling.

**artist biography**
Michael Fischer has been working since the 90s on the speech immanence of sounds and their sculptural and dramatic evidence, in contemporary Free Improvised and Experimental Music on the tenor saxophone, the feedback-saxophone and the violin; Michael composes as well fixed media pieces for ad hoc soundscapes for collaborative performances with poets in experimental poetry. In 1999, he began to integrate the electroacoustic phenomenon feedback into his instrumental work and developed a unique technique and an exclusively analog, no-effect-based instrument the feedback-saxophone: micro- and macro-movements of the instrument / fingers / body, creating the texture within an dialog of the sonic reflections of the space; further development of this instrument in residencies at ZKM / Karlsruhe or STEIM Amsterdam. He has worked with outstanding artists and early key-figures in improvised music, as well as significant artists in experimental poetry, conceptual art, visual poetry and dance/performance. In 2004 he launched the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (a.o Moers Festival 2022, Wien Modern 2020,2025) and works as instant composition conductor with numerous international large ensembles for festivals, universities and other institutions.

Guest-lecturer at University of California Irvine, Newcastle University/UK, Peabody Institute - The Johns Hopkins University/USA, University for Architecture Vaduz/LI, University of Applied Arts/A, Bruckner University/A, Seiwa University/J, Conservatorio Superior Vigo/ES, Goethe Institut Palermo, JAMU Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, Brno/CZ, University of Montenegro Music Academy a.o.

Performances all over Europe, Libanon, Japan, Canada, the USA - f.i. Irtijal Festiv. Beirut, ReMap4 CAMP Athena/GR, Festiv. Internacional de Improvisación Madrid, Festiv. Wien Modern/A, Donaufestiv./A, MAK - Museum of Applied Arts Wien, Bunka Kaikan Tokyo, Sonic Circuits Festiv. Washington DC, High Zero Festiv. Baltimore, Coaxial Arts L.A., Festiv. Globale ZKM Karlruhe, POLFestiv. Neue Musik Frankfurt, Festiv. Kaldeidophon/A, Elevate Festiv./A, Festiv. ArtActs/A, Festiv. Konfrontationen/A, Moozak Festiv./A, FAUN Festiv. Brno, Klang30 Festiv. Wien, New Adits Festival/AT, CM-Festiv. Osaka/J, Urbanguild Kyoto, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, STEIM/NL, Knitting Factory NYC, Vortex Jazz Club London/GB, Beat Museum/San Francisco, Red Room Baltimore, Array Space Toronto, Auditorio Parco Renzo Piano Building L'Aquila/IT, FAUN Festiv. Brno, Klang30 Festiv. Wien, new addits Festiv. Klagenfurt

https://m.fischer.wuk.at/works.htm

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