Christian Jaksjø

Christian Jaksjø’s musical background includes studies of improvisation, composition,
and electro-acoustic music, an extensive performing career on trombone, euphonium,
and related instruments, interdiciplinary experimental studies of dynamic form with
architects, designers and engineers, along with a concurrent, groundbreaking creative
practice as a composer: utilizing, for instance, processual musical transformation by
means of discretely varying virtual n-tone equal-tempered divisions of the octave
(Orthodrom/Loxodrom [Grosszirkelnavigation], 1997–2000); architecturized music composed algorithmically by means of complex dynamical systems operating directly on architectonical spatial structures by Jan Duiker (Ungrounded [Zonnestraal], 2002); stochastic algorithmic composition and sound synthesis directly operating on mystical texts by David Libeskind (The Four Texts, 2003) or also on the virtual instrumental resonance occurring in Helmut Lachenmann’s Serynade, and in the latter case combined with complex instrumental extension by means of ring modulated electromechanical and electromagnetical feedback (Encountering the Imaginary [Ulysses], 2009–2010). Pivotal to his work, both as a composer and as an improviser, is rendering audible the inaudible: underlying forces as well as otherwise imperceptible patterns. Christian Jaksjø lives and works in Oslo (where he was born in 1973) and in Frankfurt am Main (where he, since
2003, plays trombone in the hr-Bigband).