Gunnar Geisse | 1962 | Germany

Improviser, composer, interpreter, electric guitar - laptop, several other string instruments

• Gunnar Geisse AtEM - MEtA, NYX
• ICI ENSEMBLE MUNICH The Wisdom Of Pearls, PAO
• Adam Pieroñczyk Digivooco feat. Gary Thomas, PAO
• Maurice de Martin BERLIN JAZZ COMPOSERS ENSEMBLE Transylvaniana, CHAOS Records
• Brother Virus Happy Hour (Knitting Factory NYC), TUTU/enja
• le petit chien woof., enja records
• Marty Cook Fractal Gumbo, TUTU records
• Gunnar Geisse ballads, MGI records/Intercord
• GO GUITARS & SINGER PUR Electric Seraphim, K&K Verlagsanstalt Edition Kloster Maulbronn

Music as an adventure, love for experiment and improvisation, vision, to bring compositional predefined shapes and spontaneous improvisational musical images – that is also to say structure and expressivity – into a dialectical relationship at the moment of performance.
Research in the field of non-linear phenomena, theory of complexity, time, structure development/patterns
and simulation at the universities of Magdeburg and Munich
1995 Music award from the city of Munich
2000/2001 Scholarship for composition Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2001 Scholarship for music, Munich
Worked with Ali N. Askin, Marty Cook, Phil Durrant, Vinko Globokar, Barry Guy, Franz Hautzinger, Wilbert de Joode, Jason Kahn, Kalle Laar, Thomas Lehn, Michael Lentz, George Lewis, David Moss, Günter Müller, Phill Niblock, Mary Oliver, Evan Parker, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Ignaz Schick, Ed Schuller, Mike Svoboda, Gary Thomas, Sebi Tramontana
Worked for/played works of Hans-Jürgen von Bose, John Cage, Peter Maxwell Davies, Fred Frith, Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, Anestis Logothetis, Tom Johnson, Josef Anton Riedl, Iris ter Schiphorst, Dieter Schnebel, James Tenney, Christian Wolff and Udo Zimmermann
Worked under Peter Eötvös and Lothar Zagrosek and several major German symphony orchestras, like the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BR), the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra of Baden-Württemberg and the South West Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR).

Concerts/tours/festivals throughout Europe, the Near East and the USA
e.g. Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, Centre of Contemporary Art CCA Glasgow, Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, La Salle Gaveau Paris, München "Festival für Experimentelle Musik", Kölner Jazz Haus Festival, Berlin "Jazz Across the Border", Berlin "East West Jazzhouse", Berlin "Jazz Focus", Berlin "Jazz Units", "Jazz a. d. Donau" Vilshofen, Leverkusener Jazztage, Leipziger Jazztage, Hofheimer Jazzfest, "Jazz & More" Festival München, SpielArt Festival München, "Münchner Klaviersommer", "Tollwood" Festival München, Kampnagel Hamburg, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Knitting Factory New York City, CBGB New York City,
Donaueschinger Musiktage, "musica viva" München, Arbeitstagung am Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt, "Münchener Biennale", Münchner Opern-Festspiele, "Klang-Aktionen" Neue Musik München, Atlantisches Festival Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, "Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele" Internationale Festspiele Baden-Württemberg, "Ars nova" Internationales Bodensee-Festival Ravensburg, "A*Devantgarde" München, Klosterkonzerte Maulbronn, MDR Musiksommer "Klangrausch Festival" Leipzig.