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Michael Fischer
musician-composer-instant composition conductor
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.
Since 1999 connecting the electro-acoustic phenomenon feedback - developed
the feedback_saxophone.
Collaborations in literature - focus experimental poetry -, dance, performance,
installation, video.
Beneath his longstanding collaborations such as duo BAGG*FISH with
ARG/NL drummer Marcos Baggiani, Michael Fischer launched the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra
(2004), since then elaborating an individual hand-sign practice / instant
composition conducting, similar Butch Morris' 'conductions'. - As instant
composition conductor he works for international improvising orchestras,
temporarily large ensembles and choirs.
cooperations
with musicians and composers
John Edwards, Marc Sanders, Marcos Baggiani, Michael Vatcher, Gail Brand, Hilary Jeffery, Felicity
Provan, Joao Castro Pinto, Daisuke Terauchi,
Tamaho Miyake, Wilbert de Joode, Karoline Leblanc, Paolo Ferreira Lopes,
William Parker, Denis Charles (t), Irene
Schweizer, Peter Kowald (t), Peter Jacquemyn,
Lukas Ligeti, Franciszek Araszkiewicz, Rozemarie Heggen, Korhan Erel, Ken Okami, Ito Atsuhiro, Meinrad Kneer, Burton Greene,
Alan Purves,
Marcos Fernandez, Johannes Bauer, Takuji Kawai, Takumi Ito,
Mark Dresser, Phil Durrant, Thierry Ex, Andy Moor, Agnes Heginger, Annette Giesriegl, Didi Kern, Alessandro Vicard, Davide Granato, Elio Amato, Vinicius Cajado, Ivo Bol, Eric Boeren,
Noel Akchote, Gary Smith, Joe Williamson, London Improvisers Orchestra
a.m.o.
with authors
Petra Ganglbauer, Gerhard Rühm (founding
member of the 'Wiener Gruppe'), Gerhard Jaschke, Peter Waugh, Magdalena
Knapp-Menzel, Semier Insayif, Peter Pessl, Dieter Sperl, Valeri Scherstjanoi,
Ilse Kilic, Julian Schutting, Ferdinand Schmatz, Birgit Schwaner, Christine
Huber, Lisl Ujvari, Sophie Reyer, Rolf Schwendter, Margret Kreidl, Lucas
Cejpek, Fritz Widhalm, Erika Kronabitter, Susanne Toth, Konrad Prissnitz,
Thomas Antonic, Sina Klein, Lisa Spalt, Marietta Böning, Regina Hilber,
Adelheid Dahimène (t), Raoul Schrott,
Waltraud Haas, Toni Kleinlercher, Karin Spielhofer, Günter Vallaster,
Klaus Haberl, Nikolaus Scheibner, Christian Katt, Wolfgang Helmhart, Bernhard
Widder, Stefan Alfare, Karin Schöffauer (t),
with Dmitri Prigow (t doyen of russian
conceptual art, Puschkin award winner 1993) together with translater and
publisher of contemporary russian literature Erich Klein and with
Maria Nicolini
with dancers
Eileen Standley, Lily Kiara (Magpie M&D
Company NL), Makiko Ito, Valeria Primost, Diana Gadish, Marisa Grande
and Pere Gay i Faura (The Meeting Point NL), Silvia Bennett, Malgorzata
Haduch, Seiko Karasaki, Eiichi, Sanae Kuroko, Kenjiru bien and Pe (Baby-Q
dance comp. Tokyo), Liz King - D.ID Dance Identiy, Carla Behal, Urska
Vohar, Silvia Both
with fine artists
Marc Adrian ( t
op-art, early experimental poetry on the computer, pioneer of after wwII
generation austrian avantgarde/structural movie makers), Lore Heuermann
(installation), Ikko Taniuchi (painting performance), Eugenie Jansen &
Albert Ellings (film), Albert Mayr, Karin Ferrari, Stefan Nussbaumer,
Paul Gründorfer, hamu ha-al a.o.
with lightdesigner
Ellen Knops
instant composition conductings
for
improvising orchestras, temporarily united large ensembles, 'classic'
orchestra and choirs
OMEGA/Orquesta de Música Espontánea Galicia (ESP)
F.O.C.O. Madrid (ESP)
GGRIL/Grand Groupe Régional d'Improvisation Libérée (Rimouski, CAN)
Toronto Improvisers Group (CAN)
Budapest Improvisers Orchestra (HU)
Krakow Improvisers Orchestra (POL)
Sicilian Improvisers Orchestra (Palermo, IT)
Orchestra Organico & Kid's Choir (L'Aquila, IT)
Rara Festival Orchestra (Palazzolo A. 2012 and Siracusa 2013, IT)
Creative Music Festival Orchestra (Shiga, JAP)
Students' temporary orchestra at Peabody Inst./The Johns Hopkins Univ.
(US)
Students' temporary orchestra at Bruckner University Linz (AT)
Genetic Choir (Amsterdam, NL)
Brunnenchor (Vienna, AT)
Haydn Orchester Eisenstadt (AT)
StIO (Graz, AT), V:NM Full Group Festival Orchester (Graz, AT)
Gis (Wels, AT), FreiHeid Orchester (AT)
and some other:
projects with choirs (f.i. for Technisches Museum Wien (AT) a.o.), students'
orchestras, temporarely united large ensembles, ...
festivals & venues
festival Kaleidophon /A, Wien Modern /A,
High Zero Festival /Baltimore USA, Globale ZKM /Karlsruhe GER, Donaufestival
/Krems A, festival Artacts /A, POL festival neue musik /Frankfurt, festival
Internacional de Improvisación /Madrid, Sonic Circuits festival
/Washington D.C., Irtijal festival /Beirut, AudioArt festival /Krakow
POL, Mozg festival /Warzawa POL, festival TussenLand /NL, Rara festival
/Italy, Elevate festival /A, festival Izzven /Maribor, Creative Music
festival /Japan, next festival /Bratislava, cross hearing int. music meeting
festiv. /Budapest, Interpenetration festival /Graz, V:NM festival Graz,
festival Konfrontationen /A, festival Ein Kulturschutzgebiet /A, radiaXL
festival /Lisboa, festival DerivaJazz /teatro El Ferrol/Spain, Grabenfesttage
/A, Ernst Schmidt jr. festival (experimental film) /A, Haydn in der Wart
festival Rotunde Oberwart /A, Literatur in Grün festival Schloß
Deutschkreutz /A, intimacy&distance festival /A/NL, fluten festival
/A, moozak festival MediaOpera /A, Jazzfestival Wiesen /A, Traumzeitfestival
/Duisburg, Jazzfest Wien
Bimhuis /Amsterdam, STEIM Amsterdam, ReMap4 CAMP Contemp. Art /Athens,
Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Zaal 100 /NL, Amsterdamse Hogeschool v. de Kunsten,
Media Highschool /Bruxelles, The Beat Museum /San Francisco, Luggage Store
Gallery /San Francisco, Goethe Institut /Palermo, Goethe Institut /Lisboa,
Austrian Cultural Forum /NYC, Audit. del Parco - Renzo Piano Building
/L'Aquila/Italy, Salotto /Salone degli Incanti Trieste/Italy, Loop_line
/Tokyo, Uplink_factory /Tokyo, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan music library, Urbanguild
/Kyoto, Guggenheim house /Shioya, Bird /Hiroshima, Plan U /Hiroshima,
Sala Nasa /Santiago de Compostela/ES, Red Room /Baltimore, High Wire /Philadelphia,
Hungry Brain /Chicago, Toledo Bellows /Ohio, Array Music Space /Toronto,
Le Cagibi /Montreal, Caravansérail /Rimouski CAN, Special Colors
/Tokyo, Tetra Art Common Cafe /Osaka, Space /Fukuoka, Etajima Junior HighSchool
/Etajima Island JAP, Porgy&Bess/A, Literaturhaus Wien, Literaturhaus
Graz, Literaturhaus am Inn, Kunsthaus Mürz /A, Künstlerhaus
Wien, Kunsthaus Graz, MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) /Vienna, 21er Haus
(Museum of Contemporary Art) /Wien, ORF Radiokulturhaus Wien /A, University
of Applied Arts Vienna, paraflows /das weisse haus, Teatr Kana/Szczecin
/PL, Club Mozg /Gdansk/PL, Noble Saloon - Municipal Town Hall Barcelos
/PT, Festival Music a Portiers /FR, Dampfzentrale /CH, Knitting Factory
NYC, Red Rose Club /London, Bonnington Centre of Music /London, Loos Foundation
/Den Haag, Het Bethanienklooster /NL, Trytone/NL, MarciPanis /NL, Kraakgeluiden&DNK
/NL, Badcuyp /NL, Bei den Minoriten /A, Kunstraum NÖ /Vienna, Forum
Stadtpark /A, Ammanstudios /Vienna, Spielboden Dornbirn /A, SchlachthofWels
/A, Alte Schmiede /A, Fluc /A, WUK /A, OHO /A, SOHOinOttakring /A, MuseumsQuartierVienna,
Stadtinitiative /A, Echoraum /A, Palais Epstein /A, Palais Schwarzenberg
/A, H. Nitsch Museum (Art's Birthday) /A, Rabenhof Theater /A, ...
radio art pieces-productions for ORF Kunstradio and Radio orange94.0FM
appearances
since 1995, in the Netherlands, Belgium,
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia,
Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, France, Great Britain, Poland, Finland,
the Lebanon, Japan (extended tours in 2007 and 2010), Canada, and the
USA.
lectures and workshops at/for
University of California Irvine /USA, Peabody
Conservatory - Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
/USA, Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien/A, Universität für Architektur
Vaduz /Liechtenstein, Bruckner Improvisations Tage - Bruckner Universität
Linz /AT, Conservatorio Superior de Música Vigo /ES, Goethe Institut
Palermo /IT, Etajima Junior High School, Etajima island /JAP, Seiwa College/icc-lecture
(with 60 students) Nishinomya/JAP, Special Colors /Tokyo, lecture on 'history
of european improvised music' and workshop for Creative Music Festival
Shiga/JAP, Orchestra Organico - music school students and children's choir
/IT, project on 'burn out' with Brunnenchor for 'In Arbeit' - exhibition
at Technisches Museum Wien, BOeS (Berufsverband Österr. SchreibpädagogInnen)
/A, OMEGA/Orquesta de Música Espontánea Galicia /ESP, for
Brunnenchor and large ensemble, Brunnenpassage, Vienna; amateur choir
and improvising orchestra - Artacts festival /St. Johann i Tirol/A, for
the Genetic Choir Amsterdam, lecture and conducting on 'architecture and
music', Jeunesse Musical Austria, MELT - Migration in Europe & Local
Tradition (EU-project) - Festival Interetnic, Shigishoara/ROM; guestlecture
for improvisation and ensemble music for baroquerecorders, Musikschule
Eisenstadt/A, Amateurs Highschool Vienna; 2000-2006 lecturer for saxophone
at the Gustav Mahler Conservatoire, Vienna; 1992-2000 lecturer for saxophone
at the Prayner Conservatoire, Vienna
education
2002-2007 . .studies
on the violin supported by Bela Mago jr.
since 1999 . .studies on electroacoustic
and acoustic phenomena of the feedback
2001 . . . . . . . workshop with Eddie Prevost,
London
1997 . . . . . . . didactic seminar with
Barry Harrys, New York
1996 . . . . . . . masterclass at Stroudsbourg
University, Pennsylvania
1994-1995 . . studies in classical composition
at the Academy of Music & Performing Arts, Vienna
1990 . . . . . . . masters in music (Jazzsaxophone)
at the Prayner-Conservatoire, Vienna
1968-1979 . . piano lessons
member of
Grazer Autorinnen Autoren Versammlung (GAV)
Künstlerhaus Wien
European Beat Studies Network
founding member of the non-commercial community-radiostation, Orange 94.0
FM, Vienna
radia - european network for radioart