photo by Katharina Geling
Fabian Neubauer is a musician and multi-instrumentalist in the field of improvised and experimental music.
He explores a diverse range of instruments, including piano, drums, guitar, as well as various forms of electronic sound production, such as effects processing and feedback-based analog sound generation.
Fabian Neubauer participated in numerous album productions and has toured countries such as Estonia, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK, Italy, and Austria.
He has worked with artists such as Irena Tomažin, Michael Zerang, Leila Bordeuil, Ryan Carniaux, 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, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Beat Keller, Hanna Schörken, Li-Chin Li, Pablo Liebhaber, Sebastian Gramss, and Jan Klare and collaborated intensively with New York avant-garde musicians known as Talibam! and Moers Festival residents Kevin Shea and Matt Mottel. He played with various formations at the renowned festival for improvised music, the Moers Festival and developed music for several dance companies such as SZENE2WEI and IMA KOKO WATASHI.
Fabian Neubauer is presently immersed in a range of projects, including La Riviera, [e'ga:l], and Open Sound Control, as well as solo work, while frequently collaborating with various musicians from the free improvisation scene and artists from disciplines such as dance and visual arts.
Other groups he has collaborated with include Luong/Neubauer/Liebhaber, KNYNS, Nasssau, Glossa, The Dorf, the Wuppertal Improvisation Orchestra, and GLIS GLIS.
He is also the organist of the psychedelic folk band The Düsseldorf Düsterboys.
His work is characterized by an openness toward instrumentation, avoiding rigid categorizations and embracing an unpreconceived approach.
He strives to remain dynamic, continuously exploring new ways to create environments for artistic emergence, free from conventional boundaries.
"Utilizing feedback generated from a mixer, multiple microphones, effects units, and radios, Neubauer adds layers of complexity to the sound.
Additionally, he incorporates non-electronic elements into the performance, seamlessly integrating them into the overall expressive tapestry of language, sound, movement, and silence." ([e'ga:l]).
"German-based modern creative trio "Tales" presents a groundbreaking album full of freedom, sensitivity and aesthetic fine-tuning with its eponymous debut release. This is by no means a typical piano trio album: the three musicians Duy Luong (double bass, electronics), Pablo Liebhaber (drums), and Fabian Neubauer (piano, Wurlitzer, electronics), literally invent a new sound language rarely heard in this line-up. The minimalist, sketchy compositions interweave so freely and naturally with the lyrical-abstract improvisations of the musicians that they are indistinguishable, even downright fusing. With "Tales" they release a truly beautiful, multi-layered album brimming with bold fragility." (Luong/Neubauer/Liebhaber - Tales)
Fabian Neubauer lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany.