Martin Siewert

Guitarist Martin Siewert is from your same era of Viennese experimentalists while Boris Hauf, Dieter Kovacic (Dieb 13), and Franz Hautzinger. Since 1998 he continues to be working on methods to abstract the audio from the guitar, to remove it from its rock-related referrals by using out-of-date analog technology. His strategy also reveals a continuing desire for reductionism, as could be noticed in his efforts to the organizations Efzeg and SSSD. He offers used Hauf, Oskar Aichinger, Christian Fennesz, Werner Dafeldecker, and Conveniences of Madness amongst others. His initial solo task Komfort 2000 premiered in 2000. Siewert (blessed 1972) is certainly of German removal, but lives in Vienna, Austria since he’s 10 years previous. He begun to play electric guitar publicly circa 1995, initial with Herwig Grodischnig, Freier Fall, Hautzinger (before his change right into a post-minimalist quarter-tone trumpeter), and along with his very own group Duckbilled Platypus, were only available in 1995. The last mentioned released two albums in 1997 and 1998 in the avant-garde jazz label Extraplatte. But at that time, like a great many other Viennese music artists (Hauf, Hautzinger, Dafeldecker, Hilge Hinteregger to mention several), he grew dissatisfied using the jazz audience and started reinventing his vocabulary as the recently incepted brands Durian (by Dafeldecker) and Charhizma (by Christof Kurzmann) activated new types of expressions attuned to the most recent tests in London and Berlin. He made an appearance as a visitor in the 1999 electro-acoustic improv summit Compact disc Dafeldecker Kurzmann Fennesz O’Rourke Drumm Siewert, got involved with Efzeg in Oct 1999 and finished his Komfort 2000 soon after. The last mentioned, a slow-developing organised improvisation, highlighted Dafeldecker, Hinteregger, Wayne Horvitz, and Tony Buck. His most recent involvements are the groupings Trapist (with Joe Williamson and Martin Brandlmayr), My Kingdom for the Lullaby (with Kurzmann, Axel Dörner, and Efzeg’s video musician Billy Roisz), as well as the important mellow abstract electric guitar quartet SSSD, whose initial album Home arrived on Grob at exactly the same time as Efzeg’s second opus Boogie, offering Siewert’s relatively understated profile a force.