Jeff Gburek

Jeff Gburek is composer, improviser, sound artist, visual artist, poet, working with prepared guitar, unprepared guitars, stones and other objects, phonography, electronics, sampling, digital manipulation. He studied Javanese (Jogja) and Balinese (Ubud) gamelan music and worked for some years as percussionist, strongly influenced by Harry Partch. In NYC he played with Neel Murgai, Daniel Carter, Graham Haynes and did studio work for Joe Claussel and Nithin Sawney. He first lived in Berlin in 2000, playing with Joe Williamson, Michael Vorfeld, Marcelo Aguirre, Annette Krebs, Konrad Bauer, Tobias Vethake and others, thusly setting the tone for his paradoxical poetics of sound, while working on dance/theater with Ephia in Djalma Primordial Science.