A native of Yokohama, Japan, Marcos Fernandes spent over three decades in California as performer, producer and curator. He has performed in the US, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong and Japan as a solo improviser, phonographer and as percussionist/sound artist with various ensembles, dancers and visual artists. Fernandes' work can be heard on over 50 recordings on Accretions, Bake/Staalplaat, Circumvention, Pax, Pfmentum, Phonography.org, Public Eyesore, Solitary B and others.
Fernandes has performed and/or recorded with Aaron Ximm, Bernhard Gal, Bill Horist, Carl Stone, Chris DeLaurenti, Dub Marronics, Emily Hay, Eric Glick Rieman, George Lewis, Gianni Gebbia, Haco, Hans Fjellestad, Jakob Riis, K.K.Null, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Kazuo Imai, Lê Quan Ninh, Lesli Dalaba, Lisle Ellis, Mike Keneally, Mike Pride, Miya Masaoka, Raymond MacDonald, Seiichi Yamamoto, Tatsuya Yoshida, Tetuzi Akiyama, Thomas Dimuzio, Yuki Saga Yumiko Tanaka as well as with Donkey, Lower Left Performance Collective, Nortec Collective, Seattle Phonographers Union, Skeleton Key Orchestra and Wormhole.
Fernandes has participated in various festivals including Festival Beyond Innocence (Osaka), Impromusica Fes, Jazz Promenade (Yokohama), so.cal.sonic, Sound walk (Long Beach), San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, San Francisco Alternative Music Festival, Edgetone Music Summit (Bay Area), 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), Jazzorca (Mexico City), Open Gate, Il Corral/Zero Point, Dangerous Curve, Club Tropical, 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), The Stone (NYC), Bridge, Museum of Kyoto, Renaiss Hall, Pit Inn, Super Deluxe, Airegin, Tokuzo (Japan) among others.
Fernandes was co-director of Spring Reverb 2003-2008 held at sites including the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Making Music, and has curated events at numerous venues including Spruce Street Forum, Casbah, Galoka, Kava Gallery, 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. Fernandes is a recipient of grants from Meet the Composer and Arts Commission Yokohama..
Fernandes co-runs the artist-based independent label Accretions,home to some of today's more innovative experimentalists. He is a founding member of the Trummerflora collective, dedicated to creative music in Southern California.
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