Thawing ice releasing itself and falling from a large oak tree onto the snow-covered street below. February 15th, 2021.
recorded with a rode ntsf-1 / mixpre-2II.

thawing (210215 / NE18th + Skidmore)

(((best listened to with headphones)))
A sound haiku for this week's Disquiet Junto based around binaural field recordings taken in Suquamish and Bainbridge Island, Washington - Cascadia.
The "Sound Haiku" and the instructions for making them were shared as part of the Sound Environments (Sound II) class that I am currently Teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Kinetic Imaging.

More on this 482nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Exactly That Gap (The Assignment: Make a musical haiku following instructions from Marcus Fischer) — at:

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210327 Puget Sound Haiku - disquiet0482

a processed/reworked recording of my daughter gemma playing a piano at a building salvage warehouse in portland.i had used recordings of this piano in the past on portions of my 12k album "monocoastal".
(sorry for the confusion on that last upload)


110327 (actual version)

110410 (waiting)

230101 (dodecalogue 001)

mpc 1000 played by hand gradually over 12 minutes

230102 (dodecalogue 002)

230106 (dodecalogue 005)

sinewaves + LFOs played on an akai MPC 1000

230108 (dodecalogue 007)

simple tape loop of brass metallophone + bells
for more info, visit: http://dustbreeding.com/441-loop-loom

dust breeding 441. (loop loom)

sounds of barnacles on a log in an estuary on the oregon coast during low tide.
more info on dustbreeding.com

Estuary sounds (log + barnacles)

music for a foggy night. excerpt from a long-form improvisation with wurlitzer electric piano bring processed by modular synthesizer.  see more at: http://dustbreeding.com/446-fog-keys-cables

446 / fog, keys + cables

more info: http://www.dustbreeding.com/448-sounds-on-sounds/

here is an excerpt of a guitar, tape loop + modular synth recording from tonight.  i am using the tape loop like an endless-repeat echo. the modular synth is processing both the live guitar and the tape playback through a series of things like granular samplers, reverb and lowpass + bandpass filters.

on the left side of this photo you can see the skiff i built yesterday, all finished + populated with modules. i think it turned out nicely.

448 / sounds on sounds

excerpt from a long-form guitar + tape loop improvisation.
more information at: http://dustbreeding.com/466-fog

466 / driving over bridges through fog

five excerpts of pieces made on the buchla music easel, summer 2024

Summer Easel (five excerpts)

testing a newly built music thing modular "radio music" kit using a microSD card full of gamelan samples.
more at dustbreeding.com


489 / radio music test

this piece of music was created from discarded parts of another song.  it consists mostly of guitar + wurlitzer piano tape loops.
more at http://www.dustbreeding.com/504-surplus/

504 / surplus

guitar + bells being recorded and processed using boarderlands granular 2.0

dustbreeding.com/519-bells-strings

519 / bells + strings

guitar > modular / audio damage -odio- > boarderlands > odio / modular

www.dustbreeding.com/520-april-first

520 / april first

an excerpt from a live performance at reed college, eliot hall chapel. 04.18.15
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video can be see at: https://vimeo.com/125768327
more info: http://www.dustbreeding.com/531-excerpt
photo by brian young.

Excerpt 150418m Reed College Chapel

field recording of a steam valve inside the lincoln park conservatory.

534 / lincoln park conservatory steam valve

layered sameness in two parts
pt.1 harmonics (10 layers)
pt.2 plucks (13 layers)

More on this 223rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Record multiple, slightly varying takes on the same looped composition in this project by Monome’s Brian Crabtree”) at:

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Layerd Sameness - disquiet0223-layeredsameness

This is a portion of a score that i did for "Once Upon a Time in Ladds", a short film by Ivy Lin. The film documents the search by a chinese woman for information about her father. She is guided by a chinese elder through Ladds Addition, a labyrinth-like neighborhood of Portland where her father grew up.
This track is what closed out the film and ran through the credits.I have included some of the natural sounds of the film in the background (faint bits of dialogue, rain, bicycles passing + birds). i hope to someday release the rest of the score.
thanks.
m.f.


Ladds (film score)

one loop of piano being played by two tape decks. 
the piano was recorded while visual artist + fellow rauschenberg resident wardell milan can be heard arranging papers in the background. 
audio captured via the built in speakers of the tape decks.

170211 - Dual Deck Piano Loop (RRR)

040512 - box music

An excerpt from "Lighting The Shadows" a piece for piano + magnetic tape.  the full 9min version can be heard and downloaded at: https://marcus-fischer.bandcamp.com/track/lighting-the-shadows

Lighting The Shadows (edit)

excerpt from a live tape loop, percussion, guitar + modular synth performance at S1, Portland.

180812

The first track off of the 2018 tour cassette "On Falling". 
Edition of 50 w/ hand letterpressed covers.

Out of print (but repressing *could* be possible)

(on falling) debris

My first ever all-modular live set for the June edition of Modular on the Spot - PDX. 
I wanted to try doing something more rhythmic with more upfront melodies for a change.  The main melodies are primarily Make Noise 0-coast being sequenced by Monome Ansible and being resampled in the ER-301.  The drones are all from the 4MS SWN. Textures + wurlitzer samples are coming from a 2hp Play + ER-301.  All the reverb comes from via Audio Damage EOS + Æverb modules. Pamela's New Workout from ALM/Busy Circuits is providing all of the clocks + LFOs.
This live set was recorded directly to a 4MS WAV Recorder module.

190629 (Live Set - Modular on the Spot PDX)

this is a recording created from a tape loop of a tape loop from a live recording. the original source recording was either from a performance this last october in japan or los angeles... i am no sure where.

lost at sea

Disquiet0426 - Cellular Chorus

interdisciplinary artist + musician from portland, cascadia // mapmap.ch

marcus fischer

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