"Though Michael Jon Fink is perhaps best known to readers of these pages as a pianist, having penned and performed several hauntingly beautiful Feldman-inflected (but unashamedly tonal) compositions for California's Cold Blue label, he's just as adept at tone painting with a guitar in his hands. Accompanied by percussionist Marcelo Aguirre, sitting behind an impressive array of gongs and cymbals, Fink's guitar playing was discreet but highly nuanced ... in a 40-minute set of delicate improvisations that was warmly received by the public ..."

- Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic Magazine [from a review of Aguirre/ Fink Duo at Instants Chavirés , May 27th 2005]

"In Michael Fink's (solo) improvisation on electric guitar,
rapidly tapped, continuous left–hand arpeggios
built a dark, repressed sonic mass,
lit with little glinting spikes form the right hand
and shaped through a palpable arc..."
  – John Henken, Los Angeles Times

IN CONCERT:

Ghost Duo at Dangerous Curve (2006): duo improv with Marty Walker

Cold Blue Music at REDCAT (2006): "I Hear It in the Rain" with Rick Cox, Bryan Pezzone, Barry Newton, Dan Morris and Jonathan Marmor

(most) Excellent Music at ROD (2006): trio improv with Marcelo Aguirre (perc./ voice) and Mark Trayle (electronics)

Aguirre/ Fink Duo at Maybeck (2006) : "Objects in the River (of Time)" duo improv with Marcelo Aguirre

Festival Internacional de la Cuidad de Chihuahua (2005): "Michael Jon Fink in Concert" selected piano solos and improvisations for electric guitar at Teatro de la Cuidad, Chihuahua, Mexico

Aguirre/ Fink Duo in Europe (2005):

"two flowers²" at Stralau 68, Berlin , June 3

"Incandescent" chez Aude et Charlemagne , Brussels, May 29

"2 performers" at Voorkamer, Lier, May 28

"Sonic Protest" at Instants Chavires, Montreuil, May 27

Almost Deadly Birds at Dangerous Curve (2004): trio improv with Karl Montevirgen and Mark Trayle

(Un–)Mapping the Electric Guitar (2004): "Some Dreams in Red/For Sonny Sharrock" (solo improv)

Call and Response at REDCAT (2004): "Adorned with Lightning" with Alex Iles, Nick Fink and Jonathan Marmor

CalArts Creative Music Festival (2001): trio improv with Wadada Leo Smith and Marty Walker

Line Space Line (2001-2004): "A Folio of Large and Small Worlds Ending" (ephemera for solo electric guitar), as Ghost Duo, Ghost Duo + 1 (with Jonathan Marmor)

EARJAM I, II, III (2000–2003): solo, as Ghost Duo, improvisations with Vinny Golia, David Ornette Cherry and Karl Montevirgen

"Electric guitarist Michael Fink made creative, smart use of his wah wah pedal,
building a pleasantly dark, wobbling wall of sound."
  – Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times