About

Feel free to contact me about scores, collaborations, commissions, arrangements, copying, sauerkraut fermenting techniques and anything else at:

merzjp(at)gmail.com 

Bio

​JP Merz is a composer and sound artist who works with classical, jazz, and rock musicians, as well as improvisers, dancers, electrical engineers, internet researchers, programming languages, and robots. His recent work explores intimate, emotion-driven, and kinesthetic experiences of sound. JP’s music has been performed by members of the JACK Quartet, Altius Quartet, Playground Ensemble, Iowa Center for New Music, and Colorado Music Festival Orchestra at places such as the Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison New Music Festival, San Francisco Fringe Festival, the Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions (ACRE), the Abrons Arts Center, record stores, coffee shops and living rooms. In addition to composing, JP performs on electric viola, guitar, and electronics with an eclectic variety of groups ranging from new music/improv ensembles to folk-rock bands. He recently moved from Boulder, CO to Minneapolis, MN. 

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