Werner Gruber SOUNDARTIST & COMPOSER Profile
Born 1959 in Maria Steinbach Allgäu/ Germany. Live in the bavarian Allgäu.
Composer, intermedia-composer, performer, inventor of new experimental,
musical instruments.
Since 1980 performances, experimental musictheatre, intermedial concepts,
new instruments, bodymusic and mouth-articulations-sounds, textworks, experimental radioplays,
dancemusic and filmmusic, sound and room installations, transparent-art and light modulators,
object theater, 3D-computer animations, soundpiano, sinfonica materialica material music synphonie,
3D-Soundlaser-performances with live and hand controlled lasers.
Since over 1984 artistic cooperations and participations on
experimental music events and new music festivals such as Klangaktionen München and Musica Viva Bavarian Broadcast BR .
Performances
Performances in concerts on New Music Festivals e.g. in Munich: Klangaktionen/Soundactions, Musica Viva BR...
and cultural events for the Lenbachhaus Munich, among others 3D-Laserperformance
for the opening of the 50th anniversary exhibition of the Fraunhofer society Germany
at the German Museum, Munich.
Grand opening shows and events for fairs at the New Fair Munich and the International Congress Center ICM, Munic Materialica....
Exhibitions/Installations
Interactive soundreliefs on academy castle Solitude, Stuttgart 1994
Sinfonica materialica, ICM new fair munich. 1997
Soundwalls, Sinnsationen Munich 1997
Cooperation into ensembles of experimental and new music Riedl, Wunderlich,Zeller. 1985 - 2000
Awards and honours
State price for Composition Federal state Bavaria 1997
Praise and music award of the provincial capital Munich 1988
State price and music award academy castle Solitude Stuttgart
Federal state Baden- Würtemberg 1994
Praise and music award of the provincial capital Munich 1999
SOUNDLAND Unterallgäu
Many kind of different soundart-projects in my bavarian region ALLGÄU
SOUNDHALL-Project
An interactive sound, light and multimedia exhibition project, in different levels in planning.
Material new instruments, objects and installations of Werner Gruber,- which are interactively be recordable of the visitors-, are exhibited.
Pieces of music, experimental performances, permanent-performance, intermedia/multimedia are listed with this installed work up to dance and music theatre.
Main emphasis of the Soundhall-Project are special installations for children, young people and "New Music at the school"-Groups.
Special: SOUNDS INCLUSIV
Soundart for and with handicaped and not-handicaped people, to bring them together.