Cor Fuhler

Cor Fuhler (born 1964 in Barger-Oosterveld, Drenthe, Netherlands) is a Sydney-based Dutch/Australian improvising musician, composer, instrument buider, inventor, visual artist and academic, whose practice is an interdisciplinary one crossing into installation, dance, puppetry, comic strip, music theatre and site-specific performance. His primary instrument is the piano (frequently prepared piano) which he explores through manipulating sound with various electromagnetic string stimulators like ebows (which he pioneered from 1991), and motorized actuators. Fuhler also performs on guitar, turntables, analogue synthesizer, and he is the inventor of the keyolin (a hybrid violin/keyboard).

Selected Projects

• M.I.M.E.O.
• ICP
• Wayang Detective (with gamelan orchestra, shadow puppets, and improvisers)
• Fuhler - Bennink - de Joode (with Han Bennink en Wilbert de Joode)
• Corkestra (with a.o Ab Baars, Wilbert de Joode, Michael Vatcher, Andy Moor, Tony Buck, Nora Mulder, Tobias Delius, Anne La Berge)
• Cortet (with John Butcher, Thomas Lehn, Rhodri Davies)
• PPP5 (with Michael Moore, Alex Waterman)
• The Flirts (with Gert-Jan Prins)
• Kabinet
• Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra.
• the Gap (with Tobias Delius)
• Truancy (with Jim Denley)
• Splinter Orchestra

Major Collaborators

• The Ex
• Gert-Jan Prins
• John Zorn
• Jaap Blonk
• Sonic Youth
• Amanda Stewart
• Jim O'Rourke
• Ikue Mori
• Mark Feldman
• Christian Marclay
• Louis Moholo
• Roswell Rudd
• Alvin Curran
• Fred Lonberg-Holm
• Steve Beresford
• George Lewis
• Jon Rose
• Evan Parker
• Bob Ostertag
• Toshimaru Nakamura
• Sachiko M
• Gunter Muller
• Oren Ambarchi
• Robbie Avenaim
• John Tilbury
• Hamid Drake
• Getatchew Mekurya
• Mats Gustafsson
• Tetuzi Akiyama

Discography

Albums

• Cor Fuhler - 7CC IN IO (piano solo, 1995)
• Palinckx - The Psychedelic Years (1996)
• Fuhler Bennink de Joode - Bellagram (GeestGronden, 1998)
• Fuhler Bennink de Joode - Tinderbox (Datarecords, 2002)
• DJ Cor Blimey and his Pigeon (ConundromCd 01, 1999)
• The Flirts (Erstwhile Records, 2001)
• MIMEO/John Tilbury - Hands of Caravaggio (Erstwhile Records, 2002)
• Moov Spot (Musica Genera, 2004)
• Cortet - HHHH (Unsounds, 2005)
• Stengam (Potlatch, 2006)
• Lighton (Musica Genera, 2007)
• Split LP Series #3 (Narrominded, 2008)
• Corkestra - Corkestra, 2004
• Corkestra - GasStationSessions, 2011
• Truancy (Splitrec, 2013)

Compilations

• See The Sound, Hear The Space (Improvisation November Music, 2002)
• Kraakgeluiden (Unsounds, 2003)
• "SPEAK" New World Records 2011. Works featuring Cor Fuhler, Stephie Buttrich, Misha Myers, Josh Geffin, Amy Walker, Patrick Ozzard-Low and Anne La Berge.

Organisations

• Chairman of the Beroepsvereniging van Improviserende Musici (BIM, the Dutch national union for improvising musicians, 1998 - 2002)
• Boardmember of Dutch Arts Council for composition (Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst, 2002 - 2008)
• Co-artistic director of Doek foundation (2001 - 2012)
• Co-artistic director of the 'Kraakgeluiden' (weekly electronic music series, 2000 - 2006)

External links

• Official site
• Discography
• The Keyolin
• Whitehead, Kevin. New Dutch Swing (1998). New York: Billboard Books. ISBN 0-8230-8334-9.