Groups and Ensembles
From 1993 until 1999 he played and recorded modern jazz orientated guitar music with his own groups, the Andreas Perger trio and quartet. CD's like Heart Pop and Ethnomorphocology arose. The late saxophonist Monty Waters was featured on the CD Happiness is a warm gun and joined the band a few times for live concerts. With the saxophonist Johannes Enders, he played some duo concerts. Starting from his work with the concert guitar, he played solo concerts with his improvisations an compositions for the electric guitar. In this context he played one of his compositions together with the classical "Leipziger Streichquartett" at the Bach Night at Zeche Zollverein in Essen/ Germany, where he was invited to perform his solo pieces and improvisations. Another collaboration in this context took place with classical cellist Adrian Brendel. More and more he focused on the elaboration of the 5.1 surround guitar and works, based on an extended interdisciplinary idea of composition. Room-related and/ or interactive works, and room-related works for video, electronic soundtracks, and contemporary instrumental improvisations arose. Concerts with contemporary improvisers such as Franz Hautzinger, Sebastiano Tramontana, Christofer Varner, the ICI Ensemble, and Tobias Delius followed.
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