InVisible

After a hiatus of many, many years in the blogosphere; after a growing dissatisfaction with the way social media (I’m looking at you, Facebook) is building walled gardens; after the perceived need of having a place for a portfolio of my works, I have decided to resurrect my blog with some new technology and start all fresh. I have also decided to leave the old content buried in a broken database and in an exported XML file. Most of it is no longer technically relevant, and those personal pieces from the past, they are - well - from the past. May they rest in pieces and 404s. ...

I wanted to bring back from the dead my old website, which was running on an old version of WordPress. It probably got hacked, as one day I received a text from a friend, asking about the error message that showed up (instead of the stale content that hadn’t been updated for years) I also wanted to move away from WordPress and was looking for alternatives. Via a blog post I read (yes, blogs still are a thing, it seems) I found Ghost which looked good. Instead of just diving straight into installing it, I decided to ask the collective wisdom of Twitter for suggestions. ...

Crystal Caves is a concept album I have been thinking off for over a year and started to work on for earnest in late 2018. It is a reflection on my state of mind, as experienced through therapy. I went through a dark phase in my life in late 2016 that led to a form of burn-out. I was lucky to get to meet a wonderful therapist, who helped me work on finding my way back. To her, Crystal Caves is dedicated. ...

Ambient Explorations is a series of four instant composition pieces. The only instrument used is an electric guitar, that is routed through a complex labyrinth of effects (mainly delays). The delays mangle and re-texture the guitar sound, creating long and evolving sound-scapes. Ambient • Exploration by Jens-Christian Fischer Ambient Explorations

In 2017, I played multiple times at Stall6 where Richard Csizmazia organised the Signal Zirkus Zurich meetups. Most of the concerts weren’t recorded (mostly due to failures of my equipment), but on 2017-07-18 the stars were aligned and I was able to record the whole set. Ambient Guitar Electronique - Live at Stall 6 by Jens-Christian Fischer Buy the Ambient Guitar Electronique on Bandcamp. (Name your price, starting at CHF 0.00) ...