Fabian Neubauer is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and curator based in Wuppertal and Berlin. He works internationally across experimental and improvised music, free jazz, noise, electroacoustic music, and performance art.
 

Working with acoustic and electronic sound, he uses a wide range of instruments, sound objects, effect pedals, sampling, field recordings, and feedback systems, and likes to let them do what they do.
 

He performs solo and in ensembles, has released numerous albums, and collaborates with artists across music, dance, and visual art. He has worked with artists such as John Edwards, Caroline Kraabel, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Audrey Chen, Korhan Erel, Elliott Sharp, Ryotaro Miyasaka, Kevin Shea, Hanna Schörken, Shuoxin Tan, Sun Yhizou, Mats Gustafsson, Masayo Koketsu, Duy Luong, Phil Niblock, Mik Quantius, Gunda Gottschalk, Sebastian Gramss, Colin Webster, and Matthew Grigg, among many others.
 

His performances have taken place at festivals and venues such as Moers Festival, JOE Festival Essen, Bova Istanbul, Bar Isshee Tokyo, Curva Minore Palermo, Ambient Festival Cologne, the Cologne Philharmonie, and Fusion Festival, as well as in numerous independent contexts within the experimental music and performance scenes in Europe and Asia.

He has composed music for dance and theatre productions by SZENE2WEI, POUR Ensemble, Folkwang Tanzstudio, and Chikako Kaido, including IMA KOKO WATASHI and Karada/Kriegskörper, as well as The Place from Which by Jennie Boultbee. His discography includes releases on Leo Records, Mount Wobble, and Staatsakt.
 

Further ensembles and projects include [e:ga'l], KNYNS, Nasssau, der Weise Panda, The Dorf, the Wuppertal Improvisation Orchestra, Tapestry Turban, the London Improvisers Orchestra, and GLIS GLIS. He is the organist of the psychedelic folk band The Düsseldorf Düsterboys.
 

He studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. He has received the Steinway Prize NRW and the Atelier-Galata scholarship from Kunststiftung NRW in Istanbul. In 2027, he received the Kathrin-Preis for his large Ensemble project Field Condition. With The Düsseldorf Düsterboys, he received the German Record Critics’ Award for Nenn Mich Musik.

Together with Bastian Buddenbrock, he organizes events at Solips, an independent venue in Wuppertal, and curates the experimental music series Off-Grid at ORT Wuppertal.