Jorge Boehringer

Who is Jorge Boehringer?

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 in 1998 moved Oakland, California. He currently resides in Prague, Czech Republic.

Boehringer's music makes frequent use of acoustic viola as well as electronic sources, and other acoustic sound sources.

In reference to a large ensemble piece composed in 2001, Boehringer says:

Games involving proportions between human scales of time and experience and those which can be observed within my environment tend to be useful in trying to understand the environment and consequently my sense of presence. These games tend to follow an ever-reductive pattern, in which I simplify the structures I am working with...[so that they] can then be transformed freely. Data, unlike rock mass, is extremely plastic even to the hand of thought alone, and, in addition, makes itself available to various algebras, conceptual transformations, and comparisons freely. Systems which are overtly periodic are somewhat self-simplifying and thus, when compared to more chaotic systems, lend themselves to such quantification readily.