Portfolio WEEK7 Tom Fisher #Ins Element2

Tom Fisher is a sound craftsman and performer situated in the mucky edge-grounds of North East London. Working principally under the name Activity Pyramid his ventures fluctuate from site-explicit sound establishment and earphone based works for displays and galleries, to trial radio works, narrative and music.

His imaginative practice includes utilizing sound and sythesis to work with a reexamination of our environmental factors, looking at the connection among ourselves and the nonhuman, and our part in the more extensive ecologies of scenes.

With a huge number of recording methods, frequently pointed toward investigating and re-deciphering the apparently inconspicuous and unheard components of our environmental elements, he hopes to introduce compositional and spatial articulations of these acoustic peculiarities such that endeavors to propose elective viewpoints in regards to impression of scale, various leveled predisposition and the interconnectedness of living things.

https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/mardle-daily-rhythms-of-a-pond

As Greenhalgh explains, “It’s so exciting that we’ve discovered the woodland bird song dawn chorus equivalent for ponds, in the form of nocturnal aquatic insect choruses at night-time, and the whining of aquatic plants as they photosynthesise like busy factories during the midday sun.” 

Listening through Tom Fisher’s album was relaxing. The use of phases was inspiring. These micro sounds inspired me in my element2 recording through cassettes. Why? The cassette recorder has a specific directional mic inside which you have to record it really near the object/environment. Otherwise it doesn’t sound clear at all. And it has its specific texture when you record it.