Jeff Gburek, born 1963, is a guitarist/electronic music composer and sound sculptor working throughout Western Europe and the USA. He employs extended and prepared guitar techniques, signal processing, open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 applications and field recordings to create richly textural music linked to musique concrète

Musique concrète

Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...

 and electro-acoustic music, wherein extreme pianissimo, organic object manipulation and silence contrast energetic swells of electronics. For 8 years he has worked with movement artist Ephia

Ephia

Ephia is a physical theater artist, dancer and the creator of a movement philosophy called “Unsound Body”, which concentrates on situations of physical instability, fragility, connection with nature and the deconstruction of the logic of performance. The first phase of her career can be described...

 in Djalma Primordial Science http://www.djalma.com evolving a praxis of body and sound through performance and pedagogy. Other projects include the Berlin-based electro-acoustic trio ZYGOMA with percussionist Michael Vorfeld http://www.vorfeld.org and sampling by Michael Walz. Appearances with Keith Rowe

Keith Rowe

Keith Rowe is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter. Rowe is a founding member of both the hugely influential AMM in the mid-1960s and M.I.M.E.O. Having trained as a visual artist, Rowe's paintings have been featured on most of his own albums...

, Tetuzi Akiyama

Tetuzi Akiyama

Tetuzi Akiyama is a Japanese guitarist, violinist, and instrument-maker.Akiyama formed the improvisation group Madhar in 1987, and the classical ensemble Hikyo String Quintet in 1994 . In 1995, Akiyama and Sugimoto formed a guitar duo, and played at venues in New York City, Chicago, and Detroit...

, Kyle Bruckmann http://www.kylebruckmann.com/, Pascal Battus, Raven Chacon

Raven Chacon

Raven Chacon is an American composer and artist. He is known as a composer of chamber music as well as a solo performer of experimental noise music...

, Tatsuya Nakatani, Annette Krebs, Lucio Capece and Tom Carter (Charalambides

Charalambides

Charalambides is an avant garde musical group originally from Houston, Texas, USA and lately of Austin, Texas. Formed in 1991 by Tom Carter, Christina Carter and Kyle Silfer, they have followed in the footsteps of other Texas psychedelic music artists such as the 13th Floor Elevators, Red Crayola,...

), show him crossing many strains of improvised, electro-acoustic and experimental music. He is known for his CD "Energariums" on the Nur Nicht Nur label http://www.nurnichtnur.com He has recently been building a unique electronic environment for processing guitar and field recordings at STEIM in Amsterdam, September 2005.

External links

• Official Page
• Interview at addlimb.org
• http://www.mattin.orgHe released a composition for digital noise and field recordings on the website of Mattin
  Mattin
  Mattin is a Basque artist working mostly with noise and improvisation.Mattin also has written about improvisation, free software and against the notion of intellectual property. In 2001 Mattin formed Sakada with Eddie Prévost and Rosy Parlane. He has over 70 releases in different labels around the...
  
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