martin siewert
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martin siewert - guitar, lapsteel, electronics
born in saarbrücken/ germany in 1972
currently living in vienna
improv and composing activity in both acoustic and/or electronic contexts;
work for theatre, film and dance as well as various remix and soundinstallation commissions
since 1998 special focus on abstracting/ deconstructing the electric guitar and expanding its sonic possibilities by means of mostly dated analog technology
current projects include:
komfort 2000 (with wayne horvitz, werner dafeldecker, helge hinteregger, tony buck)
pull my daisy (with boris hauf, didi bruckmayr and lukas knöfler)
tuuls (duo with helge hinteregger)
kandy korn (with briggan krauss and michael sarin)
regular appearances with boris hauf's efzeg (hauf, stangl, dieb 13, siewert) and helge hinteregger's comforts of madness (hinteregger, uchihashi, siewert, ..)
touring and festival concerts in austria (jazzfestival saalfelden, hörfest/steirischer herbst, hörgänge/konzerthaus wien, wien modern, impuls dance festival), germany, france, poland, england, slovenia, mexico, morocco, bulgaria, switzerland (tonart/bern)
1998 Remix ('Test of Ben') commissioned by the 'Hans Koller Prize 1998'
Leader of DUCKBILLED PLATYPUS, CDs "Trash Test" (Extraplatte EX 286-2, 1997) and 'DUCK YOU!' (Extraplatte 336-2, 1998)
and KANDY KORN (with Briggan Krauss and Michael Sarin)
guitarist of Franz Hautzinger's Trio F (with Wolfgang Reisinger), CD 'Speaker's Corner' (1998) (Extraplatte EX 396-2)
touring and festival concerts in Austria (Jazzfestival Saalfelden, Jazzfest Wien, Hörfest/Steirischer Herbst, hörgänge/Konzerthaus Wien, Wien Modern), Germany, France, Poland (Swidnik Jazz Festival), England (London Jazz Festival), Mexico, Morocco (EU-Jazzfestival Rabat), Bulgaria, Switzerland (Tonart/Bern)

selected discography:

siewert/ horvitz/ dafeldecker/ hinteregger/ buck - komfort 2000 (2000)
efzeg - grain (2000)
dafeldecker/ kurzmann/ fennesz/ o'rourke/ drumm/ siewert (1999)
the comforts of madness - röhren (1999)
max nagl ensemble - one plus one (1999)
franz hautzinger - speaker's corner (1998)
martin siewert's duckbilled platypus - duck you! (1998)