I’m pleased to introduce a “Sound Methods” podcast, aimed at interviewing artists about their processes and inspirations. It was an easy choice to ask Marcus Fischer to kick it off.

Read the full interview and post on Sound Methods: https://andrewtasselmyer.substack.com/

I interviewed Marcus over videoconference at his home in Portland, OR, on the night of Thursday, February 1. We covered a lot of ground here, including his thoughts on how he defines the music that he makes, how he approaches a studio recording vs. a live performance, his punk roots and background in music, and the ideas behind his profoundly moving exhibition on display as of this writing, called “Mass.”

For more information about Marcus’s work, including photography and video of the installation pieces that we discussed in this interview, please visit his website at mapmap.ch. Marcus also maintains a substack page called Dust Breeding.

Artist Bio: Marcus is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. He is a first generation American artist who creates, collects, and transforms sound into immersive, layered compositions that accompany performances and exhibitions. His site specific assemblies of exposed speakers, tape loops, and objects are characteristic of his installations, paired with melodies of restraint and tension.

He has released numerous recordings, both solo and collaborative, on 12k, and has also contributed two soundworks and two performances to the 2019 Whitney Biennial as the sole artist from the Pacific Northwest included in the edition. Marcus has been awarded residencies at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Marcus has performed and recorded as a solo artist, as a member of Wild Card, and in collaborations with artists such as Taylor Deupree, Aki Onda, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Laura Ortman, Stephen Vitiello, Calexico, Raven Chacon, and Simon Scott.