Jorge Boehringer / Core of the Coalman

Oakland, CA

Billboard

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. 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 intents and interests and result in the creation of novel sonic architectures. Core of the Coalman has performed on concerts alongside many diversed experimental bands and artists including Gowns, Rubber O Cement, Deerhoof, Ikue Mori, Luciano Chessa, Ramon Sender, Tralphaz, Sixes, the Breezy Days Band, Xome, Jessica Rylan, 0th, Bulbs, and Joshua Churchill to name a few. He has collaborated directly with members of D Yellow Swans Grouper, Marfa and Ne-Af, 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, and Che Chen. In addition to his solo work, Jorge Boehringer has composed music for the American Conservatory Theater(SF), The Barton Workshop, cellist Loren Dempster, EnsembleInc (NYC), 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 concerts 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 several 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 exploring Europe. This is a place to bring some of these seemingly divergent areas of activity in Jorge's work together, various options for interaction are left in your hands, where they belong, enjoy.