Martin Siewert

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Martin Siewert (born May 11, 1972 in Saarbrücken ) is a German jazz and improvisation musician ( guitar , electronics) and film composer who lives in Vienna.

Live and act

Siewert has lived in Vienna since the age of ten. He studied guitar at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz . He began performing publicly as a guitarist around 1995, initially with Herwig Grodischnig, Freier Fall , Franz Hautzinger and his own band Duckbilled Platypus . With this band he released two albums on extra disk . Around the same time as other Viennese musicians (such as Boris Hauf , Dieb13 , Hautzinger, Werner Dafeldecker or Hilge Hinteregger) he began to break away from the jazz idiom and developed an abstract sound on the guitar. Soon he belonged to the groups Efzeg (with Burkhard Stangl and Hauf) and Komfort , to which he invited Dafeldecker, Hinteregger, Wayne Horvitz and Tony Buck . In the group Trapist he played with Joe Williamson and Martin Brandlmayr , in My Kingdom for a Lullaby with Christof Kurzmann , Axel Dörner and Efzeg's video artist Billy Roisz. He also played with the guitar quartet SSSD , which also included Taku Sugimoto, Werner Dafeldecker and Burkhard Stangl; he continued to perform with Oskar Aichinger , Christian Fennesz , in a duo with Dieb 13 and with the Comforts of Madness , but also with Wolfgang Mitterer , Elliott Sharp , Franz Koglmann , Thomas Lehn , Karlheinz Essl , Briggan Krauss , Ken Vandermark , Michael Sarin , Jamaaladeen Tacuma , the Kammerflimmer Kollektief , Steve Heather, Yannis Kyriakides, Georg Gräwe , Frank Gratkowski , Michael Vatcher or the Klangforum Wien . In addition, music for theater, ballet and film was created, as well as remixes and sound installations .

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SURNAME Siewert, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and improvisation musician (guitar, electronics) and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken