Fabian Neubauer is a musician, multi-instrumentalist, and improviser working in the field of experimental and improvised music. He operates at the intersection of acoustic and electronic sound, exploring a wide range of instruments and sound sources – including piano, drums, guitar, objects, contact microphones, and electronic feedback systems. His work spans both free improvisation and conceptual approaches, treating music as an open process that is constantly shifting and evolving.

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He has collaborated with artists such as Irena Tomažin, Michael Zerang, Leila Bordeuil, Ryan Carniaux, Michael Knippschild, Felix Nussbaumer, Patrick Hengst, Hartmut Kracht, Taka Kagitomi, Edis Ludwig, Simon Below, Karl F. Degenhardt, Caroline Kraabel, Mik Quantius, Bastian Buddenbrock, Gunda Gottschalk, Christoph Irmer, Israel Flores Bravo, Duy Luong, Le Quanh Ninh, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Beat Keller, Hanna Schörken, Li-Chin Li, Pablo Liebhaber, Sebastian Gramss, and Jan Klare. He also worked closely with New York avant-garde musicians and Moers Festival residents Kevin Shea and Matt Mottel, who are considered key figures in the New York underground and avant-garde scene.

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Neubauer has performed at numerous international festivals and concert series, including the Moers Festival, and has created music for various dance companies such as SZENE2WEI and Chikako Kaido’s IMA KOKO WATASHI. Concert tours have taken him to Estonia, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Taiwan, and Austria. In 2025, he embarked on a concert tour through Japan and Taiwan, performing with established voices in the Asian free improvisation and experimental scene such as Dong Yi, Masayo Koketsu, Ryotary Miyasaka, Masahiro Tobita, Yasu Ey, and Kenshiro Arakawa. Neubauer is also regularly active in London and deeply connected to the city’s music scene.

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He is currently involved in several projects, working both solo and with various musicians from the free improvisation scene, and collaborating with artists from the fields of dance and visual arts. Other ensembles he has performed with include Luong/Neubauer/Liebhaber, KNYNS, [e:ga’l], Nasssau, Glossa, The Dorf, the Wuppertal Improvisation Orchestra, the London Improvisers Orchestra, and GLIS GLIS. He is also the organist of the psychedelic folk band The Düsseldorf Düsterboys.

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His artistic practice is defined by an open approach to sound, instrumentation, and form. He challenges traditional notions of musical works and views music as a dynamic, processual phenomenon. Elements of chance, intuitive structures, and a sensitive engagement with sonic and performative parameters play a central role. Electronic feedback, no-input techniques, objects, and materials are integrated into his musical vocabulary alongside classical instrumentation. 

 

Avoiding clear categorizations, he moves between improvised music, contemporary composition, noise, and electroacoustic sound art. His work reflects a critical engagement with musical conventions as well as societal and aesthetic questions. At the same time, humor, irony, and playful curiosity are essential elements of his artistic expression.

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Fabian Neubauer lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany.