Gary
Fisher

…is a Salford Based artist whose continuous process of experimentation and enquiry focused around instinctive or investigatory responses to objects, sounds and images is continued at startrunning. For his sitespecific performance Twelve Bars, Fisher will adopt a manual approach to conceiving sound from a material source within the existing space providing bittersweet new compositions. The documentary and actuality of the newly made 'Listening and Typing: startrunning/sandbar' work encourages under- standings of the balance of processes through recording, structure and identity.

Live Tape Loop is a continuous piece of tape that moves around the space in a triangular formation being simultaneously recorded onto, played and erased. Live sound from the room is picked up by the microphone at one tape recorder then transported around the space to another where it is documented and played back, this journey causes a short delay in playback which is further displaced by the positioning of the speaker away from the source. A loop of audio feedback is created by overspill from the speaker to the microphone and captured on the recording.

In his live sound piece the multi layered compositions are improvised and built from live sampling and looping of sounds from a selection of objects, technologies and tapes. This imprecise and ambiguous process explores themes of repetition, pattern and re-appropriation of found objects resulting in a profound, as well as wretched composition. The pace and construction of the work is dictated by choices made in the moment during the performance. These live performances are part of a larger work in progress and can be seen as live experiments or research.