LOU REED, SARTH CALHOUN, ULRICH KRIEGER - BIO

LOU REED Bio:
Lou Reed is an American Master, a playwright, a poet, and a photographer whose photos have been exhibited worldwide. His third photography book, Romanticism, will be released in 2009. He is the recipient of the Chevalier Commander of Arts and Letters from the French government and numerous other awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and is a founding member of the legendary Velvet Underground.

In December of 2006 Lou Reed premiered the live staging of his masterwork Berlin at St. Ann¹s Warehouse in New York. The performance was filmed by Academy Award nominated director and artist Julian Schnabel. Reed released his first suite of electronic mediation music, Hudson River Wind Meditations, on the Sounds True label in 2007.

In late 2008 Reed released a new album of live electronic music called Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio: The Creation of The Universe, which inspired two extremely well received performances by the MM3 Trio in New York in April of 2009. The CD is available for sale through his website www.loureed.com

Currently Reed is working several projects including a collaboration with artist Lorenzo Mattioti to create a graphic novel based on his album, The Raven. He is also completing a book of essays on Chen Tai Chi called The Art Of The Straight Line, which is slated for release in 2009. Lou Reed also co-hosts a weekly radio show on Sirus XM satellite radio with friend and distinguished producer Hal Willner called The New York Shuffle. The show features an eclectic variety of music played in real time, featured on channel 29 ­ The Loft. Reed has acted in and composed music for films and currently lives in the city of his heart, New York.
Lou Reed's website

SARTH CALHOUN Bio:
Sarth Calhoun is a studio composer and electronic alchemist operating out of Brooklyn, NY. In live performance he practices improvised audio manipulation, transforming the sounds of the instruments around him. He is a beta tester for the Symbolic Sound Kyma system. Much of his work focuses on the analogous relationship between pitch and rhythm, and he claims to have invented a new kind of synthesis, which he controls from a Continuum Fingerboard. In addition to performing and recording with Lou Reed, he is the mastermind behind post electronic trio Lucibel Crater.

ULRICH KRIEGER Bio:
Ulrich Krieger is a composer, performer, improviser and experimental rock musician. His main instruments are saxophones, clarinets, didjeridu and electronics. He calls his style of playing "acoustic electronics", using sounds that appear to be electronic, but are produced on acoustic instruments and then sometimes electronically treated, blurring the borders between the fields.

Krieger transcribed Lou Reed's (in)famous Metal Machine Music for chamber ensemble and works with groups like Text of Light (with Lee Ranaldo) and zerfall­gebiete (with Thomas Koner) in the nirvana between experimental rock, ambient and contemporary composition. Born 1962, in Freiburg, Germany, he lived in Berlin 1983 - 2007 with longer residencies in the USA and Italy 1991 - 97. In September 2007 he moved to California, where he is professor for composition and experimental sound practice at the California Institute for the Arts. He studied classical saxophone, composition, electronic music and musicology at the Manhattan School of Music (NYC), the Universität der Künste (Berlin) and the Freie Universität (Berlin), as well as pursuing independent studies and research in the didjeridu and Australian aboriginal music and culture.

Krieger has worked with Lou Reed, Lee Ranaldo, Phill Niblock, David First, Thomas Köner, Alan Licht, Michiko Hirayama, Witold Szalonek, Mario Bertoncini, Miriam Marbe, Seth Josel, Zbigniew Karkowski, Merzbow, zeitkratzer and many others performing in Europe, North-America, Asia and Australia. His works have been performed by the California EAR Unit, zeitkratzer, KontraTrio, Soldier String Quartet, Wandelweiser Ensemble, and many others.

Krieger received grants from the German DAAD program, the Darmstadter Summer Courses for New Music, the city of Berlin and many others and was a Composer-In-Residence at Villa Aurora (Los Angeles), Villa Serpentara (Rome), German Research Centre Venice (Italy), University of East Anglia (England), the City of Bologna (Italy) and the Music Centre North Queensland (Australia).

He has released over 50 CDs of his original compositions, improvisations, with his groups and as a collaborator with many musicians.

Ulrich Krieger's website