ALEX BUESS

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Alex Buess (Swiss): Musician/Saxophonist/Composer

Alex Buess: musician, saxophonist, composer, producer, and audio engineer, born in 1954. Alex Buess has worked together with a wide range of musicians and sound makers, namely: Stephan Wittwer, Paul Schütze, Daniel Buess, Kevin Martin, Peter Brötzmann, William Parker, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Bill Laswell, Kevin Shields, Tim Hodgkinson, Michael Wertmüller, and many others in the vast field of contemporary music, experimental rock music and improvisation. Buess’s work reflects his experience with electronics, notated contemporary music, film music, new mixing and production techniques and computer music.

Buess has played with the groups ICE, God, Phantom City, The Bug, Sprawl, and with groups he has founded, namely, 16-17 and CORTEX. Alex Buess has written compositions for various ensembles of contemporary music, and his works are regularly performed at various festivals in Europe, America and Australia e.g. TonArt, Taktlos, Lucerne Festival, Huddersfield New Music Festival, Donaueschingen (2007) among many others. Numerous compositions by Buess have been recorded by radio stations across the world, and there are many CD productions upon which Buess has played as a musician.

As an audio engineer Buess often works for Swiss Radio DRS 2, and has produced many CD-releases internationally.