JorgeBoehringer

Jorge Boehringer is an electro-acoustic musician, composer, sound designer, and installation artist from the United States. He was born in New York in 1975, grew up in Texas, and then moved to Oakland, California. Since coming to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1998 he has become an unstoppable navigational presence in the noise and experimental music scenes there. As one of his alter-egos, Core of the Coalman, Jorge performs solo on a variety of electrical and acoustic media in live performance. These pieces, which address a variety of conceptual and artistic intents and interests and result in the creation of novel sonic architectures. Core of the Coalman performs regularly, sharing the bill alongside the most diverse experimental bands and artists including Gowns, Rubber O Cement, Deerhoof, Ikue Mori, Luciano Chessa, Badgerlore, Ramon Sender, Tralphaz, Sixes, the Breezy Days Band, Xome, Jessica Rylan, 0th, Bulbs, and Joshua Churchill to name a few. He collaborates directly with a spastic mash-up of the american experimental music community and the international avant-garde. His roster of collaborators includes members of D Yellow Swans Grouper, Marfa and Ne-Af, XBXRX, 16 Bitch Pile Up, Liz Albee, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Miba, and the Grey Daturas, and with artists as diverse as Pauline Oliveros, Marco Enidi, Tuesday Faust, Paul Baker, Bonne Banks, and Che Chen. In addition to his solo work, Jorge Boehringer has composed music for the American Conservatory Theater(SF), cellist Loren Dempster, EnsembleInc (NYC), The Sf Sound Ensemble, the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble,and for many other ensembles, dance groups, films, and individuals. His composition teachers have included Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, and Gerald Gabel, and he has attended workshops with Allan Kaprow, Marianne Amacher, and Paul De Marinis. Jorge has also organized countless concerts and acted as curator for series of concerts and festivals such as the Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival, and Music for People and Thingamajigs Festivals, as well as curating gallery shows in San Francisco. He has also participated in several gallery shows, and to this date his light and sound works have been presented in several places in the United States, as well as in Japan and Europe. Having performed throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Japan, he is now living in Prague and exploring Europe. Otak Ptak (http://www.myspace.com/opakptak) is a place to bring some of these seemingly divergent areas of activity in Jorge’s work together, various options for interaction are left in your hands, where they belong, enjoy.