Jeff Gburek

Jeff Gburek, born 1963, is a guitarist/electronic music composer and sound sculptor working widely throughout Western Europe and the USA. He employs extended & prepared guitar techniques, signal processing, open source applications and field recordings to create richly textural music linked to musique concrete 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 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, Tetuzi Akiyama, Kyle Bruckmann [http://www.kylebruckmann.com/] , Pascal Battus, Raven Chacon, Tatsuya Nakatani, Annette Krebs, Lucio Capece and Tom Carter (Charalambides), 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. He released a composition for digital noise and field recordings on the website of Mattin [http://www.mattin.org] . Sound samples in mp3 format can be found at Orphan Sounds [http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound

External links

* [http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/ Official Page]
* [http://www.addlimb.org/eng/pages/interviews/questionnaire/interv_Jeff_Gburek.html Interview at addlimb.org]