Recordings
Recordings released up to 2019, were under the name Michael Pisaro. Since 2020 they are released with the name Michael Pisaro-Liu.
Labels: Gravity Wave (bandcamp), erstwhile, elsewhere, Edition Wandelweiser, New World, winds measure, another timbre, Cathnor, Potlatch, Human Ear Music (HEM), confront, Senufo, Willow St., Bánh Mì Verlag, Sedimental, Dumpf, ftarri, Intonema, INSUB, Hubro, Marginal Frequency, LCMS, Infrequent Seams, New Focus and slub.
Recent Recordings (2022)
Subtractions: Greg Stuart
Percussionist and long time collaborator, Greg Stuart recorded “side by side” (2021), a new solo percussion piece commissioned and premiered by Greg, and a new piece by Sarah Hennies (“Border Loss”) for this disc.
New Focus (released on CD and digital, October 2022)
Tombstones: Live in Brooklyn
Jason Brogan, director and electric guitar
Tucker Dulin, trombone
Julia Holter, voice
Andrew Lafkas, bass
Katie Porter, clarinets
Sam Sfirri, melodica and piano
Ron Wiltrout, keyboard, percussion, and voice
Editions Verde (an EP released on CD and digital, August 2022/recorded in 2012)
mind is moving (IV)
Michael Francis Duch, doublebass, recorded in Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway at night by Kyrre Laastad
sofa music (released as 2 LP set, July 2022)
Two Scrolls from Western Australia
Jameson Feakes (guitar, source field recordings), Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone, source field recordings, Michael Pisaro-Liu (composition and musique concrete based on the source recordings)
edition wandelweiser (released on CD, June 2022)
Discography to 2021
Revolution Shuffle (2 CDs, 106 x 1’ tracks), erstwhile records, December, 2021
stem flower root for trumpet and sine tones (Nate Wooley), Tisser Tissu, December, 2021
Tombstones for voice and ensemble (Barbara Dang and Muzzix), elsewhere music, October, 2021
mind is moving (IX) for electric guitar (Primož Sukič), Inexhaustible Editions/Friforma (Slovenia), September, 2021
Reading Spinoza, for reader, piano (Michael Pisaro, Reinier van Houdt) / Horizont-Scheefall, video (Christoph Nicolaus), vimeo, April, 2021
“Turning” for percussion and clarinet, Red Desert (Katie Porter, Devin Maxwell) on Chorochronos, Infrequent Seams, December, 2020
“branch melody” performed by Michael Pisaro-Liu, on The Yggdrasil Soli (Ulrich Krieger), winds measure (wm 047), October, 2020
Four Pieces for Recorded Percussion, Greg Stuart, bandcamp, June, 2020
Asteraceae, Pisaura (Jarrod Fowler, Amber Wolfe, Michael Pisaro-Liu), Sedimental (Greenfield, MA), June, 2020
Tai Pi (electronic) on Amplify 2020, May, 2020
“festhalten/loslassen” performed by a.pe.ri.od.ic on for a.pe.ri.od.ic, New Focus (NY), January, 2020
“fragile being, hopeful becoming” performed by Formanex and ONsemble, on 20 Years of Experimental Music, Mikroton, 2019
Achilles, Socrates, Diotima (The Poem of Names No.2), INSUB Meta Orchestra, INSUB records, Switzerland, 2019
Barricades for piano and electronics, Shira Legmann, piano, elsewhere 009, June, 2019
Nature Denatured and Found Again (five CD set), Gravity Wave 016-020, February, 2019
“Helligkeit, Die Tiefe Hatte, Nicht Keine Fläche” performed bt Ordinary Affects, on Lines and Tracings, another timbre, November, 2018
Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation, Teodora Stepančić, Assaf Gidron, Martin Lorenz, Dumpf Records (Zürich), August, 2018
“floating, drifting” performed by Ian Pace, piano, on Floating, Drifting, Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS), Ireland, April, 2018
Shades of Eternal Night, with Reinier van Houdt, Gravity Wave 015, February, 2018
Étant Donnés, Gravity Wave 014, February, 2018
“Secular Reason” for organ, performed by Justin Murphy-Mancini, on Organ for the Senses (LP), Marginal Frequency, 2017
asleep, street, pipes tones, Håkon Stene, Kristine Tjøgersen, Hubro Music, June, 2017
sometimes (harmony series no. 1), Collectivo maDam, Edition Wandelweiser Records (EWR 1703), April, 2017
13 Thirteen, Keith Rowe/Michael Pisaro, erstwhile 085-2, March, 2017
Resting in a Fold of the Field, Didier Aschour, Stéphane Garin, Michael Pisaro, Potlatch, Paris, February, 2017
the earth and the sky, Reinier van Houdt, piano music from 1994-2016, erstwhile (erstclass 001-003), 2016
“Ascending Series (7) (evaporation)” on Invisible Landscapes, New Music Co-op with Greg Stuart and Sarah Hennies, Willow St. Recordings, 2016
Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble, includes “festhalten/loslassen”, “flux” and “Pas”, ftarri/meenna-988, Tokyo, 2016
Looking Around, Christian Wolff/Michael Pisaro, erstwhile records 080, 2016
A mist is a collection of points, performed by Phillip Bush and Greg Stuart, New World Records 80772, New York, 2015
Schwarze Riesenfalter, Graham Lambkin/Michael Pisaro, erstwhile records 075, 2015
mind is moving IX, performed by Denis Sorokin, Intonema (St. Petersburg), 2015
melody, silence, performed by Cristian Alvear, Potatch, P115 (Paris), 2015
White Metal, performed by Joe Panzner and Greg Stuart, Makam (Portugal), 2014
Continuum Unbound, with Greg Stuart, Patrick Farmer, Joe Panzner and Toshiya Tsunoda, Gravity Wave GW011-013, 2014
Add Red, (Michael Pisaro and Greg Stuart) (Side A), split w/Matthew Sullivan (vinyl), Bánh Mi Verlag, New York, 2013
“ricefall (1)” on Etude Begon Badum, performed by Håkon Stene, Ahornfelder (Germany), 2013
White Metal, (vinyl), performed by Miguel Prado & Michael Pisaro, Senufo Edition #45, Italy, 2013
Closed Categories in Cartesian Worlds, Michael Pisaro/Greg Stuart, Gravity Wave, GW010, 2013
this place / is love, Antoine Beuger/Michael Pisaro, erstwhile records 068, 2013
The Punishment of the Tribe by its Elders, Michael Pisaro, Gravity Wave GW009, January 2013
The Middle of Life (Die ganze Zeit), Michael Pisaro, Oswald Egger, Julia Holter. Gravity Wave GW008, January, 2013
“fields have ears (3b)” and “Descending Series (1)” on Wandelweiser und so weiter, another timbre, 2012
Tombstones for voice and ensemble, Human Ear Music, CD/vinyl, Berlin, 2012
d minor / Bb major, Michael Pisaro/Taku Sugimoto, Dog Star Orchestra, slub (Tokyo), 2012
crosshatches, Michael Pisaro/Toshiya Tsunoda, erstwhile records 066-2, 2012
fields have ears (6), electric guitar and electronics, Gravity Wave, GW007, February, 2012
hearing metal 3 for sixteen suspended cymbals and sine tones (performed by Greg Stuart and Michael Pisaro), Gravity Wave, GW006, August, 2011
hearing metal 2 for percussion and field recordings (Greg Stuart), Gravity Wave, GW005, August, 2011
asleep, street, pipes, tones for guitar, bass clarinet and electronics, Barry Chabala, Katie Porter, Gravity Wave, GW004, March, 2011
close constellations and a drum on the ground for percussion, guitar and electronics, Barry Chabala, Greg Stuart, Gravity Wave, GW003, March, 2011
fields have ears, with “fields have ears (1)”, “fade” and “fields have ears (4)”, performed by Philip Thomas (piano) and the Edges Ensemble, another timbre (at037), 2010
2 seconds / b minor / wave, Michael Pisaro/Taku Sugimoto, erstwhile records 061, November, 2010
July Mountain (three versions) for field recordings and percussion, Gravity Wave, GW002 (performed by Greg Stuart and Michael Pisaro), September, 2010
ricefall (2) for 64 performers (performed by Greg Stuart), Gravity Wave, GW001, September, 2010
A wave and waves for 100 percussion instruments (Greg Stuart), Cathnor Records (Oxford) (Cath009), March, 2010
black, white, red, green, blue / voyelles (performed by Barry Chabala, Michael Pisaro), winds measure (wm17), January, 2010
Decentred (Tom Chant, Angharad Davies, Benedict Drew, John Edwards), another timbre, at 18 (2009), includes harmony series 8a, 8d and 10, 2009
an unrhymed chord for ensemble, realization by Barry Chabala, confront collectors series (London), 2009
Hearing Metal 1 for recorded tam-tam (performed by Greg Stuart), Edition Wandelweiser Records (EWR 0902) 2009
an unrhymed chord for ensemble, realizations by Greg Stuart and Joseph Kudirka, Edition Wandelweiser Records (EWR 0801/02) 2008
harmony series 11–16, Edition Wandelweiser Records (EWR 0710) 2007
Transparent City (Volumes 3 and 4) field recordings and sine tones, Edition Wandelweiser Records (EWR 0708/09) 2007
Transparent City (Volumes 1 and 2) field recordings and sine tones, Edition Wandelweiser Records (EWR 0706/07) 2007
mind is moving (I), Michael Pisaro, guitar, Edition Wandelweiser Records (EWR 0106) 2001
“here (2)” for flute and accordion, Normisa Pereira da Silva, Edwin Alexander Buchholz, on Cage.Pisaro.Frey.Beuger, Edition Wandelweiser Records (EWR 9601/2) 1996