It is impossible to talk about the unmistakable sound of Pacific Northwest rock music without including the name Steve Fisk. A legend in the Northwest and renowned the world over, Fisk has made an indelible mark on the scene as a producer, engineer, teacher and performer. From the underground to the mainstream, from alternative to indie-pop, artists have been benefiting from his keen ear, superior technical skills, and inventive sound for nearly four decades. 

Steve Fisk’s career is a perfect balance of serendipity, ingenuity and hard work. In 1980, after he’d left his hometown of Lakewood in southern California, Fisk found himself in Olympia, WA at the Evergreen State College where he linked up with Bruce Pavitt, who had started a fanzine called Sub/Pop which would become Pavitt’s springboard for Sub Pop, a record label that continues to launch epic careers today. Fisk would go on to graduate from Evergreen with a degree in music composition and a focus on audio engineering and he wasted no time establishing his name in the industry.

Fisk had caught an early wave in a bubbling underground scene and committed himself to both his own creative projects and to helping shape sounds of his peers. By 1983, Fisk joined the experimental, instrumental, alt-rock group, Pell Mell, and played with them while forging ahead in other aspects of his career. He produced for groups like Screaming Trees, Beat Happening, and Soundgarden. By 1990, Fisk had made his way to Seattle where he went on to record several tracks for Nirvana’s Blew EP.  In ‘93 he joined forces with Shawn Smith to form Pigeonhed, a highly regarded experimental, electro-funk, soul duo. He has worked with Soundgarden since their second release Fopp in 1988 and in 2010 he remixed their single, The Telephantasm (Resurrection Remix).His list of credits are as diverse as they are plentiful. In 2005, Fisk co-wrote and produced the score for the award winning Kurt Cobain documentary About a Son with Ben Gibbard. To date, he has composed 5 multichannel immersive soundscapes for exhibits at MoPOP (Museum of Pop Culture). He also produced Teens of Denial (2016), the first studio album for Matador recording artist, Car Seat Headrest and he mixed Ben Gibbard's Teenage Fan Club cover album, Bandwagonesque (2017). In 2015, he received The Stranger Genius Award in Music.

Steve Fisk resides in Tacoma, WA where he continues to create in his home studio, Arundel Gardens.