Marcos Fernandes

percussionist/sound artist

Born in Yokohama, Japan, Marcos Fernandes has long been active in San Diego as performer, producer and curator. He has performed in Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico and the US as a solo improviser, phonographer and as percussionist/sound artist with various ensembles, including Wormhole, a decade-long collaboration with percussionist/sound artist Robert Montoya. Fernandes runs the artist-based independent label Accretions, started two decades ago and which now features some of today's more innovative experimentalists. He is a founding member of the Trummerflora collective, dedicated to creative music in Southern California. Fernandes' recordings have appeared on Accretions, Bake/Staalplaat, Circumvention, Pan Handler, Pax, Pfmentum, Phonography.org, Public Eyesore, Ribosome and Solitary B. Fernandes has performed and/or recorded with Aaron Ximm, Bernhard Gal, Bill Horist, Chris DeLaurenti, Damon Holzborn, Ellen Weller, Emily Hay, Eric Glick Rieman, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, George Lewis, Haco, Hans Fjellestad, Jakob Riis, Jason Robinson, Joscha Oetz, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, K.K.Null, Lê Quan Ninh, Lesli Dalaba, Lisle Ellis, Mike Keneally, Mike Pride, Miya Masaoka, Nate Wooley, Nathan hubbard, Philip Gelb, Rent Romus, Scott Walton, Tatsuya Yoshida, Thomas Dimuzio, Vinny Golia as well as with Donkey, Lower Left, mrlectronic, Nortec Collective, Seattle Phonographers Union, Skeleton Key Orchestra and Trio Maghreb. Fernandes has participated in various festivals including Festival Beyond Innocence (Osaka), Yokohama Jazz Promenade, so.cal.sonic (Long Beach), San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, San Francisco Alternative Music Festival, Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, Oakland Sound/Shift, Olympia Festival of Experimental Music and the Northwest Electroacoustic Music Festival. He has appeared at Spruce Street Forum, Museum of Contemporary Art, CRCA/UCSD, Sushi Performance Gallery (San Diego), CECUT, Don Loope (Tijuana), Open Gate, Beyond Baroque, Line Space Line, KXLU (Los Angeles), Fringe Gallery (Hong Kong), Luggage Store, 21 Grand, KFJC (Bay Area), Polestar, COCA, Sonarchy Radio/Jack Straw (Seattle), Red Room (Baltimore), Big Apple, Bridge, Tokuzo, Pit Inn, Super Deluxe, Airegin (Japan) among others. Fernandes was co-director of Spring Reverb 2003, 2004 and 2005 held at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and has curated events at numerous venues including Spruce Street Forum, Casbah, Galoka, the Space and Voz Alta. From 1993 to 1996, Fernandes curated weekly performances and presented concerts at the Wikiup Cafe and Intersection Gallery, an alternative visual and performing arts space in San Diego.

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