Jorge Boehringer
artist, composer, designer, educator
jorgeboehringer01@yahoo.com

brief biography
Jorge Boehringer is an electro-acoustic musician, composer, sound designer, and installation artist from the United States. He was born in New York, grew up in Texas, and then moved to Oakland, California. Since coming to the San Francisco Bay Area ten years ago he has become an unstoppable navigational presence in the noise and experimental music scenes. 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 address a variety of conceptual and artistic questions and result in the creation of novel sonic architectures. Core of the Coalman performs regularly, and has shared programs 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 events 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.
education

2000Master of Arts, Music Composition Mills College, Oakland California.
teachers included Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, Maggi Payne, and John Bischoff
participated in residencies with Paul De Marinis, Maryanne Amacher, and Allan Kaprow

1997Bachelor of Music Theory and Composition, TCU, Fort Worth, Texas
teachers included Gerald Gabel, Blaise Ferrandino, Andy Fort, and Joanie Baczewski
recent positions
2007Composer American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, Ca
2006Guest Curator Mission Creek Music Festival/The Lab
2005Organizer/Booking Agent independant, freelance event organizing and tour booking
2004 Guest Curator (Sound) Lobot Gallery, Oakland, California
Freelance Sound Editor for various Bay Area tech companies
2003 Composer in Residence, SUNY Stony Brook, New York
Freelance Post-Production Video Engineer
2002Print Designer/Graphic Identity Music for People and Thigamajigs Festival, San Francisco, California
Print Designer BOSS (mental health/homeless aid agency, non-profit) Berkeley, California
2001Teaching Assistant, New Media and Integrated Arts, Mills College, Oakland, California
Curator, Curious F Performance Series, Oakland, California
1999Composer City in Motion Dance Company, Kansas City, Mo
Sound Designer A-Ha Dance Theatre, Kansas City, Mo
Curator/Co-Founder Thursday Night Special Performance Series, Mills College, Oakland, California
1998 Composer, Yee Odds, Independent Film, Denton Texas
Post-Production/Sound Engineer Nuclear Nebraska, broadcast artwork, Fort Worth, Texas
1997Guest Curator, Music at The Modern, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
selected performances, exhibitions

2007CESTA, Tabor, Czech Republic. Festival performance of solo and collaborative works. Tour of Europe.

Blackbird, original music for play produced by American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco

2006October Language, June, new work for small orchestra commissioned by the SFSound Group. Performed at ODC Dance Studio, San Francisco, CA

Amazing Igloos of Information Collision, May, Curator: four installation artists and seven sound performers simultaneously present work as part of Mission Creek Music Festival at The Lab,San Francisco, Ca.

Femme Toupee editor/designer, bi-monthly publication featuring a variety of artists and disiplines

There is Nothing to See Here, October, Co-Curator : sound art show, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, Ca

OSOS Festival, April, New York City,performances in support of new releases in conjunction with Osirhan Osirhan magazine, which features a cd of music by Jorge Boehringer/Core of the Coal Man.

2005The Sunshine of Your Love: An Alluvial Morass of Mixed Means November. new work for wind quartet (clarinet, saxaphone, trumpet, cello) performed at Maybeck Studio, Berkeley

Nine Nine September, performance at opening of art show, Ego Park Gallery, Oakland, Ca

Core of the Coal Man/ Hi Red Center Tour August. Booking Agent: full US tour supported by local acts.

Labyrinth, May, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, Ca Co-Curator massive environmental installations. sound performance for opening featuring 15 superimposed experimental music acts on five stages.

2004Rawing with the Hound of its Own Acheing performance followed by an installation for Rock Paper Scissors Gallerys GROW show. The performance featured the amplified creation of a line drawing that was then exhibited with the sound as recorded during the creation of the piece.

Core of the Coal Man various concerts throughout the Bay Area including several appearances at Noise Pancakes at Arts SF Gallery

San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, live electronic music:1285.25 pieces = 1 thing (blurred, trying to
understand "singing") ,

Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, Big Sur, California, took part in Sound/Shift event

2003T Zero: another 1 over the square root of one minus v squared over t squared : instrumental/vocal work with light. premiered In Baruch Hall, Manhattan, NYC. Commissioned by SUNY Stoneybrook.

sevencentralandmountain an east coast tour was presented of my ongoing solo electro-acoustic sound work. performances at Weslyan College, the Knitting Factory and various performances in NYC with cellist Loren Dempster .

Anti-Ore performance environment. long-duration performance in the tunnels of Fort Barry, Construction 129, summer 2003 with Bilge/Radiolaria ensemble. A disused military architecture has been recontextualized by the public into a new use. We celebrated this redefinition of the function of these structures, which happen to be located in one of my favorite places on earth, through a performance of music tuned to the latent resonances of the tunnels.

Shelter sound installation.May. as the final day of the Music For People and Thigamajigs Festival, recorded beacons (radio beacons, insect announcements, warning chimes, foghorns etc) and feedback where broadcast from loudspeakers atop various hills surrounding the intersection of Castro and Market streets in San Francisco. A sonic metaphor of a crystal lattice allowed breathing space for a population under stress from an increasingly militant political climate.

2002CEAIT: Cal-Arts Festival of Electronic Music, new work for voice, electric guitar, saxaphone, circuits, percussion, and computer, Oxen Only Want to Be Free, was performed by the Brown Bunny Ensemble

The Near Death Video: electronic music in collaboration with video artist Paul Baker, Denton, Tx

Tzero (the human, an arrow, a lion) December,a musical fantasy inspired by Italo Calvinos story of the same title. premiered by Bilge/Radiolaria at Oaklands Black Box Theatre

sevencentralandmountain: performances in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, Toronto, New York, Boston, Chicago, Austin, Denton, Fort Worth, Dallas and San Antonio

Lens sound installations and performance environments, various locations

Stephens Infinite Birthday Party video projected against the side of the Quotidian Gallery Building, San Francisco as part of their exhibit Skin.

Carousel March collaborative composition with members of the Brown Bunny Ensemble. performed at the Lab, San Francisco,

Systole/Diastole collaborative composition/performance on homemade instruments and found objects with sculptor Eric King. Music For People and Thingamajigs Festival, May 2002, Venue 9 San Francisco

2001The Future of American Transportation multi-media opera written and directed by Jorge Boehringer. premiered at Mills College, Oakland, Ca

Spacetime Spirals for Robert Smithson photo installation, Mills College

Back in a Moment text score for 580Split magazine.

Standing Waves at the Cost of Progress sound/text installation Mills College

Reverberant Conversation 3/13/66@ extension 76022: You Are In The Medium Now sound/sculpture installation in conjunction with Paul De Marinis residency at Mills College, 2001

Counting Music electro-acoustic work featuring granular sampler of my own design. Premiered by the Brown Bunny Ensemble, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, Ca

Necessary Music performance work featuring chef, electric and acoustic instruments and live feed between Argentina and Oakland in which performances of the work interacted. Performed at Eddies Park by the Brown Bunny Ensemble and by Miguel and Layla Galperin in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Standing Waves All The Way To the Epicenter a much simplified earlier version of Anti-Ore (see above) performed in Construction 129 in the Marin Headlands by Tori Anus.

Standing Waves for the Anus music performed by Tori Anus at the Acme Observatory Series in Oakland, California

Increase music for dance in collaboration with choreographer Alissa Wilmot. performed at ProArts Gallery, Oakland

2000Piano Piece for Hands and The Breadth of the English Language work for two pianos and dictionaries. premiered by the composer and Michael Carriera on the Thursday Night Special, Oakland, Ca

Free Energy Aggregate multimedia performance with sound producing electronic circuts, and closed loop video. performed by the composer and Kristin Miltner at Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, Ca

Standing Waves for Liberty large scale, site-specific chamber music with electronics. performed by the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble.

The Sinking Ship (How to Use a Trombone as a Snorkel) commissioned and performed by Abbie Conant, for trombone, videotape and electronics. premiered at CNMAT, Berkeley, Ca

the grammer of coastlines written for prepared piano, gamelan instruments and drumset and performed by the composer with Aurie Hsu, Alex Pots, Edward Schoker, and Greg Saunier and Mills College

Standing Waves for Darius Milhaud sound installation/sculpture, Mills College

Munction, Join Us print campaign

Jesus Cage Slip/Static/ Merry Xmas/ biography of Florian Kitt and the Author single channel video works

The Latitude of Your Timezone music for dance in collaboration with Tuesday Faust, choreographer and David Allen, video artist for the A-Ha! Dance Theatre Kansas City, Mo

1999Nuclear Nebraska video/sound work in collaboration with video artists David Allen and Paul Baker, Texas

Morning Reptile creekside intervention in collaboration with Marco Eniedi, Casey Mae, Ivan Pulanka and Hsun Suuk

The Glass Factory Theory video/dance/music work in collaboration with Tuesday Faust, Choreographer and Paul Baker, videographer

Alarm sound/light installation with electronic sensors, Mills College, Oakland, Ca

Strata electronic string quartet, performed by the Suspicious String Quartet, Mills College

1998Aquarium music for dance in collaboration with choreographer Tuesday Faust, Fort Worth, Texas

Icarus, Anamorphos for Celli music for six celli, premiered at TCU, Fort Worth, Tx

Yee Odds music for independent film directed by Paul Baker and Smiley Crumbles

1997The Glass of Vodka/Alvin Allen,- unmanned submersible/the carnival of razors chamber music performed as part of the one-time Music at The Modern festival. A day of new music featuring myself and Dallas-area composers, which I organized and curated.

Bravo multi-channel interactive tape installation. Installed at Music At the Modern (see above) and various other locations

Fone live electronic music for dance in collaboration with Tuesday Faust, choreographer
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