Producer / composer / musician / visual artist
ABOUT
Cormac Fitz is ais He is a classically-trained guitarist and pianist who has been creating sound works of various description for the last 15 years. Holding a degree from Trinity College Dublin in Music and Philosophy, specialising in Music Technology, he has a vast knowledge of music and culture in its historical and current forms, and as a result, is equipped with the skillset to face the future of music in whatever direction it may lead. His studies in philosophy have given his work a sense of place and purpose, imbuing them with the power to ask deep questions to their audience. Cormac's work encompasses various genres. Under the Crystal Jelly Fusion moniker we find psychedelic-jazz, ambient, noise, experimental electronica, field recording soundscapes and shoegaze. He also performs experimental improvised music, composes open scores, and sound designs for theatre and film.
Improvisation is a huge part of Cormac's practice, be that in sound, visuals or poetry, elements of which can be found in any of his performances and works. Cormac is no stranger to the new forms of music creation granted by technology, having experimented with Pure Data and Max/MSP, p5.js, Arduino and Gibber in his work to date.
His poetry is usually done on the fly, in a stream-of-consciousness fashion in one sitting, giving it a childlike sentiment that immediately captures a first-time perspective of specific moments or collections of moments. Through this process of improvised poetic creation, we are able to see how the poems themselves are a product of the situations they were written in.
As opposed to his sound works that often lean towards the dense and the detailed, his visual artworks are minimalist in their approach, normally composed of extremely simple elements. By zooming in on these simple elements, and maximising what is there to its fullest, he attempts to highlight that even the most basic structures contain entire universes of detail.
Though it is difficult to remove political commentary from art entirely, much of Cormac's work does not engage with the political and ideological discourses that so heavily divide our world. Instead, his practice attempts to draw his audience's attention to their own outer and inner worlds, to view the inherent patterns and fleeting natures in the microscopic and macroscopic elements of their surroundings, and arrive at a place of pure experience.
He is a founding member of the ISLO Collective, a multi-media, multi-continent artistic community that has provided friends and fellow experimental artists a platform to showcase their work and aids and facilitates in making collaborative projects, particularly international ones, easier for artists.
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