Gabriel Fischer Makronomaly

A snare drum doesn’t need to be struck to sing.

Place a sound beside it, let the frequencies breathe against the skin and something else entirely begins to happen. The drum absorbs, shudders, transforms. Patterns emerge that no hand could write. Rhythms that belong to the room as much as the performer.

Makronomaly II is written for 4 snare drums, 4 speakers, and 1 performer. It is the second chapter of an ongoing investigation into sound as a physical, living thing, not something we simply hear, but something that moves through us, that vibrates surfaces, that makes the air itself visible.

The work sits in the space between composition and phenomenon. A pre-recorded score triggers through four speakers, each positioned beside a drum lying open on the floor. As frequencies pass through the skins, ever-shifting patterns bloom and dissolve, shaped by the acoustics of the space, the temperature, the moment. No two performances are the same.

What Makronomaly asks, above all, is a certain quality of attention. An invitation to stop interpreting sound and simply let it land.

Gabriel Fischer is an award-winning percussionist, and acclaimed foley artist and composer. He holds a Master of Percussion from the Musikhochschule Lübeck and has performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble MusikFabrik, among others.