Michael Pisaro: Fogs, Mists

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Michael Pisaro: Fogs, Mists

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“Like many a great piece of music, this work is about coaxing the listener to hear and see the world a bit differently when one next steps outside.” – Just Outside

"On this dazzling new recording, his sparsely charted notes resonate like the mist of the title...Despite its sparseness, this album has proved as absorbing as anything I've heard this year." – Chicago Reader

World Premiere

A central figure in the John Cage-inspired Wandelweiser collective of experimental composers, Michael Pisaro is acclaimed for his meticulous embrace of sound as a material density, across a continuum of composed, incidental and “silent” forms. Pisaro, performing on guitar, is joined by Joe Panzner (electronics) and Greg Stuart (percussion) for the world premiere of Grounded Cloud, a 20-minute work inspired by a poem by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. Following intermission is the Los Angeles debut of the hourlong a mist is a collection of points, with pianist Phillip Bush playing alongside Panzner and Stuart. Pisaro’s extensive oeuvre has appeared on Edition Wandelweiser Records, erstwhile records, another timbre, HEM Berlin, and his own imprint, Gravity Wave.

READ: INTERVIEW with Michael Pisaro in Brainwashed.

PRESS RELEASE