Michael Pisaro

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Michael Pisaro (born 1961 in Buffalo, New York) is a guitarist and composer and a member of the Wandelweiser collective. While, like other members of Wandelweiser, Pisaro is known for pieces of long duration with periods of silence. In the past fifteen years his work has branched out in many directions, including work with field recording, electronics, improvisation, and large ensembles of very different kinds of instrumental constitution.

Pisaro has a long-standing collaboration with percussionist Greg Stuart, with over thirty collaborations (pieces and recordings) to date, including their 3-disc set, Continuum Unbound from 2014 and a new piece for amplified percussion and orchestra (to be premiered by the La Jolla Symphony in February, 2020).

​Recordings of his work have been released by Edition Wandelweiser Records, Erstwhile Records, New World Records, Hubro, Potlatch, Another Timbre, meena/ftarri, Senufo Editions, Intonema, winds measure, HEM Berlin, and on Pisaro's own imprint, Gravity Wave. 

Pisaro teaches composition and experimental music at the California Institute of the Arts.