Robert Poss Robert Poss

ROBERT POSS was a founding member of Band Of Susans, which Rolling Stone Magazine described as “adamantly arty, brainy, visceral and bracing.” Poss released two companion solo CDs, Distortion Is Truth and Crossing Casco Bay on Trace Elements Records. At the time, Tape Op Magazine described him as a “guitar genius, drone meister …the master of treated and manipulated guitars.” Since his 2002 releases, Poss has composed and performed music for choreographers Sally Gross, Alexandra Beller and Gerald Casel, has worked with ex-Band Of Susans founding member Susan Stenger on a 96-day musical installation for the Musée d’art Contemporain in Lyon, France, performed at the premier of composer Phill Niblock’s “Stosspeng” in Krems, Austria and contributed music to an Albert Maysles/Kristen Nutile documentary, Sally Gross: The Pleasure Of Stillness. In 2009 he performed with Rhys Chatham and Robert Longo at a Metropolitan Museum of Art retrospective. He has also collaborated with Austrian visual artist Margret Wibmer and has written guitar-centric articles for The Leonardo Music Journal. In March 2012 he performed the music Cage, Yoshi Yada and Phill Niblock along with Susan Stenger at the AV Festival in Newcastle, U.K. In June of 2015, Poss did a series of eight performances with Kato Hideki accompanying the Alexandra Beller/Dances company at La Mama for the piece “milkdreams.” Reviewing his 2010 solo release Settings: Music For Dance, Film, Fashion and Industry, The Wire wrote that Poss’ “abiding love for electric guitar is no casual dalliance or detached Platonic infatuation; it’s an erotic commitment, an obsessive plunge into the instrument’s metallic churn and enveloping drone.”

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