MiE (aka Mike Fielding) is an English avant-garde musician, sound and visual artist, ornithologist,author and photographer .   He is also known for commercial art projects and books    including   :-

'The Birds of Coquetdale   (Powdene) 978-0952022633 

'The  Sound of a Landscape'  series The Northumberland Coast , The Lake District ,The North Yorkshire Moors, The North Norfolk Coast.  More details here

The River Coquet ,A personal View' ISBN: 978-1838280963.

'Taking Pictures of people taking pictures of'   and

 'The Closest Thing to Heaven'   ISBN-13 : 978-1838280901 in which he donated his writing royalties to  The Young Musicians Fund . 

He is also part of the avant-garde music outfit   dumdum SCORE , who's 'Audio Arts' work is archived at the Tate Modern .    Albums include Audio Sheep , 'REDUX'

He is the writer / producer and director of the 3D Immersive 'Live Cinema' production  '5 Little Birds' .An experimental multi surround-sound ,visual & sensual feast.

He is producer and sound recordist of the  'Aves Elektron series: Death of the Nightingale',      'Nightjars'   ,   The Windpump and the willow warbler   and records and produces under the name 'Immiscible'.

With a lifelong passion for birds and the natural World, Mike has written and illustrated bird related books  , an active environmental campaigner, Northumberland Wildlife Trust  donator, and  here   fundraiser, RSPB Species Sponsor and regular writer for  'Resource magazine' ,and has also contributed illustrations for other books including  John Grundy's History of Northumberland.

MiE Fielding exhibitions here.

MiE Fielding Sound Art Here

'Ill health forces sale'

"I'm practicing the Art of balancing chaos with control.

So I ask myself, why try to make the music of 'this age' ? this age in which we live can only impose creative limits. I believe anyone can be an artist, the trick is to leave behind all of that pitiful hierarchy bollocks and do your own thing. You should embrace the 'whatever comes next', because to temper spontaneity is to be controlled by the pre-existing, as the mind will always try to impose a 'logical' manipulation of your work.

True art should never be retinal , produced to please the eye or the ears. Ultimately, you will need to curate your own work, and there in lies the trap and anxiety of influence - a major difficulty. Be your own judge and be honest with the judgement, at the end of the day one should sleep restlessly with the results, because to do otherwise will mean youv'e seen or heard your art before.

Hopefully one is creating a theory that can only be judged by that theory, creating your own genre. To 'enjoy' any of my works, the listener needs a receptive attention, a focus to it's intricate detail and a freedom of the mind which can shrug off  a lifetime of convention, habits and capitalist manipulation of free thought. Just imagine if you could only listen to recorded music once and once only !  How hard would you need to listen ?.

In the words of Henry Flynt 'No one should make modern music 'easy' to listen to and 'easy'  to understand by providing listeners with short cuts. Injecting music with songs and rythems would be as inartistic as daubing abstract paintings with representational images.

Personally I have pretty much abandoned listening to 12 tone 'western' music. You can move food around on a plate as much as you like, but it will still taste the same. So there's a kind of archaeological dig going on here, only this one uses the ears. Looking for treasure buried within the layers, one needs to be prepared to put in some effort in order to appreciate the pieces. Untimately there is nothing here for those who have been rendered deaf mutes by capitalist brain washing. "

In the words of Jay Meuser, It is better to capture the glorious spirit of the sea, than to paint all of it's tiny ripples'.