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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, Canada and the US as a solo improviser, phonographer and as percussionist/sound artist with various ensembles. Fernandes 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. 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, Alessandro Bosetti, Anna Homler, 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,K.K.Null, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Kazuo Imai, Lê Quan Ninh, Lesli Dalaba, Lisle Ellis, Mike Keneally, Mike Pride, Miya Masaoka, Nate Wooley, Nathan Hubbard, Rent Romus, Robert M, Tatsuya Yoshida, Tetuzi Akiyama, Thomas Dimuzio, Yuki Saga as well as with Donkey, Lower Left, mrlectronic, Nortec Collective, Seattle Phonographers Union, Skeleton Key Orchestra and Wormhole. 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, 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, 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), Big Apple, Bridge, Tokuzo, Pit Inn, Super Deluxe, Airegin, Urban Guild (Japan) among others.
Fernandes was co-director of Spring Reverb 2003-2008 held at sites including the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego 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 a grant from Meet the Composer.
Recent Performances
2008
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| June 7 | w/ Kazuo Imai, Ellen Weller, Bob Weller @ Knuttel House, Tokyo |
| June 6 | w/ Ellen Weller, Bob Weller @ Jazz Room Nu Things, Osaka |
| June 5 | W/ Dub Marronics, Ellen Weller, Bob Weller @ Ooh-la-la, Kyoto |
| June 4 | w/ Ellen Weller, Bob Weller @ Tokuzo, Nagoya |
| June 3 | w/ Maki Hachiya, Ellen Weller, Bob Weller @ Airegin, Yokohama |
| June 1 | w/ Maki Hachiya, Naoki Kita @ Aketa no Mise, Tokyo |
| May 25 | w/ Kakki @ Naka Africa Week, ZAIM, Yokohama |
| May 13 | w/ Hans Fjellestad @ Common Cafe, Osaka |
| May 12 | w/ Hans Fjellestad @ Keli, Kokura |
| May 11 | w/ Kei, Keizo Nobori @ Viva La Musica. Kyoto |
| May 10 | w/ Hans Fjellestad @ Tara, Matsuzaka |
| May 9 | w/ Hans Fjellestad @ KD Japon, Nagoya |
| May 8 | w/ Hans Fjellestad @ Art Space Tetra, Fukuoka |
| May 7 | w/ Hans Fjellestad @ Organ's Melody, Yamaguchi |
| May 6 | w/ Hiroshi Higo, Satoshi Hironaka, Hans Fjellestad @ Black and Blue, Kichijoji, Tokyo |
| May 5 | w/ Hans Fjellestad @ Uplink Factory, Shibuya, Tokyo |
| May 4 | w/ Maki Hachiya, Hans Fjellestad @ Impromusica Fes '08, Airegin, Yokohama |
| May 2 | w/ Yuki Saga, Hans Fjellestad @ Knuttel House, Asakusa, Tokyo |
| April 20 | w/ Anna Homler, robert m @ Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles |
| April 11 | w/ Roger Aplon @ City Heights Performance Annex, San Diego |
| April 5 | w/ Borborygmus, Wormhole @ Spring Reverb 08, San Diego |
| March 21 | w/ Anna Homler, robert m @ Zero Point, Los Angeles |
| March 9 | w/ Emily Hay, Jeff Kaiser @ Kava Gallery, San Diego |
2007
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| November 28 | w/ Kazuo Imai @ Airegin, Yokohama |
| November 27 | w/ Katsuyuki Itakura, Maki Hachiya @ Airegin, Yokohama |
| November 20 | w/ K.K.Null, Bill horist @ Super Deluxe, Tokyo |
| November 19 | w/ Tetuzi Akiyama, Michael Hartman, Masahiko Okura @ Kid Ailack Art Hall |
| November 17 | w/ Maki Hachiya, Bill Horist, Marron @ Airegin, Yokohama |
| November 15 | w/ Hiroshi Higo, Manabu Sakata, Bill Horist, Marron @ Black and Blue, Tokyo |
| November 14 | w/ Kei, Bill Horist, Marron @ K•D Japon, Nagoya |
| November 12 | w/ Chikara, Bill Horist, Marron @ Lone Star, Kurume |
| November 11 | w/ Chikara, Bill Horist, Marron @ Tetra, Fukuoka |
| November 10 | w/ Bill Horist, Marron @ Cafe & Bar Ikki, Kitakyushu |
| November 9 | w/ Maso Sasaki, Kei, Bill Horist, Marron @ Organ's Melody, Yamaguchi |
| November 8 | w/ KEI, Bill Horist, Marron @ Otis, Hiroshima |
| November 7 | w/ Haco, Masafumi Ezaki, Bunsho Nishikawa, Tim Olive, Kei, Bill Horist, Marron @ Jazz Room Nu Things, Osaka |
| November 6 | w/ Kanto Watanabe, Shinobu, Takuya, Kei, Bill Horist, Marron @ Kanadian, Osaka |
| November 5 | w/ Keizo Nobori, Kei, Bill Horist, Marron @ Viva La Musica, Kyoto |
| October 14 | w/ Anna Homler at Other Ideas @ Kava Gallery in San Diego |
| October 12 | w/ Anna Homler @ Dangerous Curve in LA |
| October 11 | w/ Curtis Glatter, Nathan Hubbard, Toni Pope @ Desi 'n Friends in san Diego |
| October 11 | w/ robert m @ San Diego Museum of Art |
| October 9 | solo performance @ Sushi's 4x4 @ Bluefoot Bar in San Diego |
| August 25 | w/ Barefoot Hockey Goalie @ Tio Leo's in San Diego |
| August 23 | w/ Dorbel @ Vinbladh's in San Diego |
| August 14 | solo performance @ Sushi's 4x4 @ Bluefoot Bar in San Diego |
| July 28 | w/ Barefoot Hockey Goalie @ Tiki House in San Diego |
| June 8 | w/ robert m @ Dangerous Curve in Los Angeles |
| May 26-27 | Improvisations/collaborations with Nate Atwood, CJ Borosque, Matt Davignon, Nathan Hubbard, robert m, Noah Phillips, Jason Robinson, Rent Romus, Bob and Ellen Weller @ Other Ideas @ Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, California |
| May 20 | w/ robert m @ Soundcheck at Qualcom Hall, San Diego, CA |
| May 17 | w/ Wormhole @ Vinbladh;'s, San Diego, CA |
| May 12 | w/ Toni Pope @ Vinbladh's, San Diego, CA |
| May 10 | w/ Emily Hay, Carey Fosse @ Il Corral, losAngeles, CA |
| May 3 | w/ Skeleton Key Percussion Ensemble, Lower Left @ Spring Reverb at Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA |
| May 1 | w/ Mike Pride, Santo Subito @ 21 Grand, Oakland. CA |
| April 29 | w/ Mike Pride, jim McCauley, Warm Climate @ Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, CA |
| April 27-28 | w/ Mike Pride, Miya Masaoka, George Lewis, Borborygmus @ Spring Reverb at Kava Lounge Gallery, San Diego, CA |
| April 21 | w/ Farhad Bahrami, Ellen weller, James Ilgenfritz @ Spring Reverb at Cal State, San Marcos, CA |
| April 12 | w/ jim McCauley, Justin Grinnell @ New Sounds Downtown at Desi N Friends, San Diego, CA |
| April 7 | w/ Emily Hay, Bob Marsh @ Mama Buzz Cafe, Oakland, CA |
| April 6 | w/ Emily Hay, Carey Fosse @ KFJC, Los Altos Hills, CA |
| April 5 | w/ Emily Hay, Carey Fosse @ Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| March 10 | w/ Ellen Weller @ Kava Lounge Gallery in San Diego, CA |
| January 31 | w/ Hans Fjellestad; Dub marronix @ Il Corral in Los Angeles, CA |
| January 24 | solo improv @ ISIM Lecture/Performance Series on Improvisation, UCSD in La Jolla, CA |
| January 9 | solo improv @ Sushi Performance and Visual Art's 4x4 at Bluefoot Bar & Lounge, San Diego, CA |
2006
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| December 14 | w/ Hans Fjellestad, Minako Arai @ Airegin, Yokohama, Japan |
| December 12 | w/ Hans Fjellestad @ Urban Guild, Kyoto, Japan |
| December 11 | w/ Hans Fjellestad @ Decadent Deluxe, Hakata, Japan |
| December 9-10 | w/ Alessandro Bosetti, Masafumi Ezaki @ Festival Beyond Innocence, Osaka, Japan |
| December 8 | w/ Hans Fjellestad @ Lucrezia, Hamamatsu, Japan |
| December 7 | w/ Hans Fjellestad @ Super Deluxe, Tokyo, Japan |
| November 18 | w/ Samm Bennett, Kazuo Imai, Minako Arai @ Airegin, Yokohama, Japan |
| November 17 | w/ Yuki Saga, Takayuki Kato, Hiromichi Sakamoto @ Airegin, Yokohama, Japan |
| November 11 | w/ Bill Horist, Marron @ Artland, Yokohama, Japan |
Photo credits: Mikiko Kishino, Andrew West, MF, Angie Wells, Gary Ghirardi
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