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Marcus Fischer is a first generation American musician + interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon. His work typically centers around memory, geography + the manipulation of physical audio recording mediums. Slowly unfolding melodies and warm tape saturated drones have become a trademark of his recordings + live performances alike. These sounds have found their way into multimedia installations, short flims, and even into the award winning public radio program Radiolab. Fischer has released a number of recordings on the widely respected 12k label including his photographic + sonic collaborations with label founder Taylor Deupree. In 2017 Marcus Fischer was an artist in residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Rauschenberg Residency where he completed "Loss", his most recent album (released September, 2017)

Fischer performs solo, in collaborations, and as a member of unrecognizable now, secret drum band and wild card.

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Marcus Fischer

Another tape manipulation simulation. Nebulæ fed into Echophon. 
Assisted by low pass gate (4046 & E340 oscillators) thru Synthrotek analog delay.

Nebulæ - Tape Warble Experiment III

really liking this piece tonight. definitely a rhythm in there that gets really hypnotic. fun to perform and zone out to. definitely loop and ambient, but churning. can you find that rhythm?

today's sound comes courtesy of 3 loops. one running off of the nebulae module, another a loop in the modcan cv record i made from a guitar and the third is the modcan being looped and pitched up by the phonogene.

there's a little metallic sine wave that comes in and out which is the make noise dpo. the envelope/volume for that is being provided by the e355 morphing lfo.

as usual lately, a bunch of it is running through a nice liquidy pittsburgh filter that i move around a bit.

this would have been a cool patch for a live gig.

Jan 19, 2014 (night loop)

"Sonic Bodies" was a performance by Scanner and Stephen Vitiello with guests David Shively (percussion) and Jennifer Choi (violin) of the Either/Or ensemble. Visualizations were provided by Madeleine Gallagher.

"Sonic Bodies" was the culmination of Scanner and Vitiello's research at MIT. With this performance of immersive, spatialized sound,  the artists explored the resonance of the body by placing the audience within a group of speakers that shifted and sculpted a sonic landscape. The program was part of a semester-long residency produced in collaboration with the Center for Art, Science & Technology and part of the project Resonating MIT.

For more information on Scanner and Stephen Vitiello: http://artsm.it/1gS4gtz
For more information on Resonating MIT: artsm.it/1liUcNd 

Sonic Bodies by Scanner and Stephen Vitiello

it's been raining all day, but the evening is clear, damp. the sky is grey and it will be dark soon.

eurorack modular sound sources:
qubit nebulae
piston honda
addac wav player

filters:
pittsburgh filter
intellijel uvcf

modulators:
flame c3
vulcan modulator
zone b.f.


June 11, 2014 (late spring evening)

Initial experiment with Make Noise ERBE VERB, DIY Buchla 291 Dual VC Bandpass Filter & Qu-Bit NEBULAE. Incorporating amplitude modulation, frequency modulation, granular & digital spaciality on a monophonic plane. 

This is not music.

Vocal Modulation Experiment II (monophonic)

based on yesterday's modular patch using the doepfer a-152 sequential switch.... this time everything's being directed by a qu-bit nano rand module.

4 inputs go into the switch. a sample from the qu-bit nebulae, a sample from the music thing radio music, and two outputs from a mutable instruments elements module.

the nano rand is being clocked from and sync'd to the delay time of a make noise echophon. the nano rand's random gate outs are switching through the sequential switch while the random LFO from the nano rand is modulating a doepfer a-102 filter that the signals are going through.

the noise output from the nano-rand is feeding back into its own sample and hold input and the sample and hold output is modulating the position of a mutable clouds module which is also processing the audio signal.

the nano rand is making a great centerpiece of random, yet related, control and modulation signals in this patch.

i had it running for about 3 hours as i worked on a graphic design project and it was forever changing and interesting. this is 7 minutes of that...

february 25, 2015 (random landscape)

I'm preferring the Nebulae module more as a Csound player than a granulator.  Lots of possibilities...need to learn Csound!  Until then, I'll lean on other talented developers.  The main sounds in this recording come from Devin Powers' "Plucked Patterns":
http://www.qubitelectronix.com/#!plucked-patterns/c1i9t

Plucked

A brief experiment with the new Nebulae instrument titled "Rhythmic Chords".  All of the sound comes from the Nebulae aside from the reverb'd drops.

http://www.qubitelectronix.com/#!rhythmicchords/c24ij

Rhythmic Chords

stephen vitiello was in the studio for a couple of days this month and we did some great, sparse work using only a banjo and a hohner pianet. making loops and performances. this is one of the pieces.

Marcus Fischer - CaptivaPiano

Qu-Bit Electronix

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