Jeff Greinke

Electro-acoustic composer Jeff Greinke is normally, like similar-sounding performers Robert Wealthy and Vidna Obmana, among the youthful modern principals of space music, nearing creation and composition with an architect’s feel for context, depth, and motion. Like a lot of his contemporaries (especially in THE UNITED STATES), Greinke was making introspective, experimental digital music a long time ahead of its latest popularization in ambient and isolationist electronica, launching a lot of his most crucial function either on cassette or through small independent brands with limited distribution. Presently located in Seattle, Greinke researched meteorology at Penn Condition and started producing and carrying out digital music in 1980. Functioning at first within an educational setting with intensive equipment at his removal, Greinke opted rather to put together his own, relatively spartan studio. Inspired with the soundscape tests of composers such as for example Brian Eno and David Moss (specially the latter’s Terrains), Greinke started integrating slim, sweeping consumer electronics with intensely treated examples and sound files, percussion, and comprehensive usage of digital and analog results, offering his music a spatial depth which many possess likened favorably with Eno’s On Property. Recently, Greinke has included an extremely prominent rhythmic concentrate, filling in the greater static strategy of his early recordings with heavier instrumentation and percussion. Being a single artist, Greinke provides recorded several albums for Multimood, Silent, and his very own label, Intrepid, which he produced with musician/sculptor/manufacturer and regular collaborator Rob Angus in 1982. He provides contributed tracks to varied dark/commercial ambient and experimental/electro-acoustic compilations, alongside performers such as Full, Obmana, DJ Spooky, Biosphere, Kathleen Amacher, Alan Lamb, and Michael Stearns. Additionally, Greinke is really a founding person in the 4th globe ethno-ambient/jazz quartet Property, who have documented several albums for the Australian Intensive label. Also a visible musician of some be aware, Greinke provides exhibited his picture taking (which also graces a lot of his album addresses) and constructed soundtracks for film and video.