Pisaro-Liu collabore de longue date avec Greg Stuart et a joué en duo avec Christian Wolff, Keith Rowe, Taku Sugimoto, Antoine Beuger, Toshiya Tsunoda, Reinier van Houdt et la cinéaste Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu.
En plus d’une précédente sortie sur New World Records (A mist is a collection of points), des enregistrements de sa musique se trouvent sur Edition Wandelweiser, erstwhile records, else music, Potlatch, another timbre, ftarri, winds measure et d’autres labels, y compris sa propre empreinte, Gravity Wave.
Pisaro-Liu a écrit un article sur la notation pour le Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music (2011) et a écrit des chapitres de livres pour Writing the Field Recording (University of Edinburgh Press, 2017), Perspectives for Contemporary Music in the 21st Century, (Wolke Verlag , 2016), Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation (Bloomsbury, 2012), Best Music Writing 2009 (Greil Marcus, éditeur, DaCapo Press); et pour les revues Revue TACET (Paris), Revue et Corrigé (France), Positionen (Berlin) et autres. Il a écrit sur le cinéaste James Benning (dans James Benning, Österrreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienne, Autriche, 2008) et traduit un livre de poésie d’Oswald Egger (Room of Rumor: Tunings, Green Integer, 2004).
Pisaro-Liu est directeur de la composition et de la musique expérimentale au California Institute of the Arts. Il a été professeur invité de composition musicale de la Fondation Fromm au département de musique de Harvard à l’automne 2014.
https://erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-earth-and-the-sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcESmz8P1yA&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o60bUWIXdvg&t=1s
Michael Pisaro-Liu (born 1961 in Buffalo, New York) is a guitarist and composer and a long-time member of the Wandelweiser collective. While, like other members of Wandelweiser, Pisaro-Liu is known for pieces of long duration with periods of silence, over the past two decades his work has branched out in many directions, including work with field recording, electronics, improvisation and large ensembles of very different kinds of instrumental constitution.
Pisaro-Liu has a long-standing collaboration with Greg Stuart, and has played in duos with Christian Wolff, Keith Rowe, Taku Sugimoto, Antoine Beuger, Toshiya Tsunoda, Reinier van Houdt, and filmmaker Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu.
In addition to a previous release on New World Records (A mist is a collection of points), recordings of his music can be found on Edition Wandelweiser, erstwhile records, elsewhere music, Potlatch, another timbre, ftarri, winds measure and other labels, including his own imprint, Gravity Wave.
Pisaro-Liu wrote an article on notation for the Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music (2011) and has written books chapters for Writing the Field Recording (University of Edinburgh Press, 2017), Perspectives for Contemporary Music in the 21st Century, (Wolke Verlag, 2016), Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation (Bloomsbury, 2012),
Pisaro-Liu is the Director of Composition and Experimental Music the California Institute of the Arts. He was Fromm Foundation Visiting Professor of Music Composition at in the Department of Music at Harvard in the Fall of 2014.
https://erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-earth-and-the-sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcESmz8P1yA&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o60bUWIXdvg&t=1s
