Displacement of Air is the music and sound of Joe Straub
Joe Straub is a composer, musician and sound artist from Los Angeles, California. His music is engaging, emotional and socially aware. Joe works in a highly improvisatory fashion creating a unique blend of various acoustic instruments, electronic sampling and processing, and voice. His work evokes an often melancholy, but always inspiring mood that leaves his audience in awe. Drawing inspiration from a variety of musical forms, including contemporary classical and avant-garde, experimental noise, jazz and blues, Celtic, eastern European folk, Indian, and Romany (gypsy) music; Joe creates masterful music which is eclectic, dynamic and provocative. Joe holds a BFA in music composition and performance from California Institute of the Arts, and an MA in music composition from Mills College. He currently lives in Berlin, Germany and is actively writing, performing and recording music and sound for concert, album and film.
News:
August 2010: 28 august ZOMER JAZZFIETSTOER / Groningen www.zjft.nl Joe Straub with Wolter Wierbos, Han Bennink, Eric Boeren, Anne la Berge, Bart van der Putten and others.
July 2010: I have completed my MA, finished the Maybeck residency and moved to Berlin, where I will begin working on several collaborative and solo projects. more to come... -Joe
March 2010: I am currently fulfilling an artist-in-residency program at the Maybeck Studio for Performing Arts in Berkeley, CA. I am working on many new pieces and collaborations which will be released soon. Later this year I will be touring Europe with two wonderful and talented musicians, Marie Guilleray and Johanna Borchert. Tour dates will be added shortly. Click here for the promotional page. -Joe
Summer 2009 European dates: with the Dutch Improv Academy: 27 august WORM / Rotterdam www.wormweb.nl Solo: 30 august STUDIO LOOS / Den Haag www.loosfoundation.com 01 september KIM / Berlin www.kim-in-berlin.com Check back soon for possible additional dates... |
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