Fischer Edwards

JOHN EDWARDS - double bass
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/john-edwards/
MICHAEL FISCHER tenor und feedback-saxophones
https://m.fischer.wuk.at/about.htm

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FISCHER EDWARDS
Michael Fischer, tenor and feedback saxophone
John Edwards, double bass

Sounding extremes on the double bass and the tenor and feedback saxophones. John Edwards active around the globe and beyond borders, is visiting Vienna from London and joining forces with Michael Fischer, inventor of the feedback-saxophone and initiator of the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra, for a duo concert. John and Michael, two poetic forces are working together on and off for more than 20 years, f.i. with Mark Sanders (GB) on drums (Univ. of Newcastle or JazzWerkstatt Wien Festiv.) or Ken Okami (J) at Donaufestival Krems.
Free improvisation and instant composition, musical textures and narrations, ensuing from theory, techniques, praxis and prepared mind and body; sharing the polylogical moment within the creational process, dedication, reception, negotiation.

JOHN EDWARDS took up bass around 1987 and cofounded The Pointy Birds, a group that provided award-winning music for The Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs dance troupes. During the early 1990s Edwards started to perform solo and to play with other improvising musicians, including Lol Coxhill and Phil Minton, while also touring as a member of B-Shops For The Poor or GOD. Since 1995 he has been one of the key figures on the British improvising scene, playing with The London Improvisers Orchestra and collaborating with – among many others – Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Eddie Prévost, Veryan Weston, John Butcher, Alex Ward and Louis Moholo.
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/john-edwards

MICHAEL FISCHER works on the speech immanence of sounds and their sculptural and dramatic evidence, in the field of free improvised, experimental music and sound-art. In 1999, he began to integrate the acoustic phenomenon feedback into his work and developed an exclusively analog, no-effect-based instrument, the feedback-saxophone, which was further developed at ZKM - Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe or STEIM Amsterdam. Founder and co-founder of many ensembles, a.o. long-standing projects BAGG*FISH (High Zero Festival, Baltimore) and M.A.D. (Itrtijal Festival, Beirut).; he composes fixed-media pieces for his live- and radio-collaborations with poets in experimental poetry; in 2004 he launched the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra with performances at (Moers-Festival 2022; Wien Modern Festival, 2020 a.o.). As an instant composition conductor he works with international improvisation orchestras and temporary large ensembles. Since the end of the 90ies he has worked in free improvised music with key-figures such as Irene Schweizer, William Parker, Denis Charles, Peter Kowald, Burton Greene, John Edwards or Mark Sanders and with significant artists in experimental poetry. Performances and sound-installation collaborations with reknown austrian artists. His work has been presented within tours and festivals in Europe, Lebanon, Canada, USA and Japan such as High Zero/USA, Irtijal/Lebanon, Globale/ZKM Karlsruhe/GER, Mozg/PL, Ad Libitum/PL, ArtActsFestival/AT, Donaufestival/AT, Wien Modern/AT a.m.o.. Guest-lecturer at University of California Irvine, Newcastle University/UK, Peabody Institute - The Johns Hopkins University/USA, Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts Brno, University of Montenegro - music academy, a.m.o..
https://m.fischer.wuk.at/about.htm