Marc Manning is an artist and musician living and working in San Francisco. His work includes painting and sound performance. He has released music under the monikers Tied to the Branches, Everything is Fine, and Heavy Lids, as well as collaborations with Dragons Eye label manager Yann Novak, Suss Müsik, Arland Nicewander and Akina Kawauchi. Since his first recording under his own name in 2004 Manning has been exploring the possibilities of the guitar and especially feedback to summon what he describes as “a synergistic living cauldron of sound.” Manning’s artistic practice is based around meditation, ritual, and the occult as it relates to the idea of summoning images and sound.