Marc Fischer is such a casually prolific creative talent, there could arguably be a section of Disquiet.com set aside simply to focus on what he does, from transforming the sound of a child’s rattle (disquiet.com) to framing the aural ambiance of his native Portland (disquiet.com) to developing a homespun looper (disquiet.com) to playing post-post-rock as part of the duo Unrecognizable Now (disquiet.com).
Just take a look at this trio of Polaroid photos Fischer posted on April 11 at his unrecnow.com/dust site:
The first two show nature, the third and final a double instance of the insertion of a human element: the bird feeder, and the microphone placed within it. Writes Fischer in a brief description:
the bottom one shows our bird feeder which i recently fitted with a contact mic hooked up to my digital recorder in order to record the sounds of the birds picking up and eating the seeds
That the man-made melds so well with the non-man-made in the photo (and, by extension, that the photo in question sits so well with the two others) is a testament to Fischer’s modus operandi. It’s no surprise that someone who so elegantly mixes synthesis and field recordings in his own music can achieve a similar balance in a visual context.
Of course, the microphone is in service of sound: “really beautiful texture,” he writes of the audio recordings of birds feeding, “more on that later.” No doubt in MP3, not JPG, format.