Bruno Alexander Spoerri (born 16 august 1935) is a Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 jazz and electronics musician.

Born in Zurich, he studied applied psychology

Applied psychology

The basic premise of applied psychology is the use of psychological principles and theories to overcome problems in other areas, such as mental health, business management, education, health, product design, ergonomics, and law...

 in Basel

Basel

Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...

 and Zurich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

. He played the saxophone as a student, and toured with the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg in Germany and Switzerland. In the early 1960s, he worked as a psychologist and career counsellor. He experimented with electrified saxophone and published the album Voice of Taurus in 1978.

Discography

• Jazz-Rock Experience (Deram, 1970)
• Glückskugel (Finders Keepers Records, 1971–1980)
• Container (1976)
• Voice of Taurus (Gold Records/Inzec 1978)
• AX+BY+CZ+D=0 (1983)
• Zürich Tenors (FFO 1983, with Ernst Gerber, Fernando Fantini, Richard Lipiec, Umberto Foletti, Rolf Cizmek, Hans Brunner)
• Albert Mangelsdorff - Bruno Spoerri - Christy Doran
  Christy Doran
  Christy Doran is a jazz guitarist born in Dublin, Ireland and raised in Lucerne, Switzerland.Doran founded OM with Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgrumber, and Bobby Burri in the 1970s; this ensemble recorded for ECM Records. He and Studer also worked together on a Jimi Hendrix tribute project in the 1990s...
  
   - Reto Weber: Shake, Shuttle and Blow (Enja, 1999)

Awards

• Jazz Festival Zürich 1954: First Price for Saxophone and Band
• Jazz Festival Düsseldorf (Deutschland) 1956: Second Price for Alto Saxophone with Modern Jazz Group Freiburg
• Jazz Festival Zürich 1958: First Price for Bigband
• International Advertising Film Festival Cannes 1965: First Price for TV-Spot Bic (Produktion Televico)
• American TV and Radio Commercials Festival 1971: Clio for TV-Spot Riri
• 1973 Filmpreis der Stadt Zürich
• 1979 First Price in Ars Electronica
  Ars Electronica
  Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society that was part of the International Bruckner Festival. Herbert W. Franke is one of its founders. It became its own festival and a yearly event in 1986. Its director until 1995...
  
   Linz for Demonstration of Lyricon
  Lyricon
  The Lyricon is an electronic wind instrument, the first wind controller to be constructed.Invented by Bill Bernardi , it was manufactured by a company called Computone Inc in Massachusetts...
  
  
• 1992 Featured Guest Composer bei der International Computer Music Conference San José

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