Sonic artist David Gamper moves freely among the worlds of composition, improvisation, and electronic instrument design and construction. He believes electronic sound processing technologies constitute an extension of the acoustic musical instrument. Unlike more single-minded proponents of musical technology, Gamper's music is a marriage of traditional instrumental performance with the sound transformations introduced by new and emerging technologies. He has named his performance technology "The Sound Shifter" and with it he captures the live sounds of his instruments (piano, winds, and others) and electronically shifts them into other musical realms.

Driven by his interest in creating performer controlled sound processing environments for improvising acoustic musicians, he has directed development of the Expanded Instrument System (EIS) for the Pauline Oliveros Foundation since 1993. He designs variations of the EIS for teaching, demonstration, recording, and for use by guest musicians in performances with Deep Listening Band (with Pauline Oliveros and Stuart Dempster) of which he has been a member since 1990.

Gamper is also half (with photographer Gisela Gamper) of See Hear Now, a visible music sound and video projection duo, and hilde+ed productions, a multi-media content development partnership. An earlier collaboration with Gisela is on Urban Desires. Another project was providing music for several of the displays at the Visitor Center at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. JdK Productions has recently released the recording of a January 1999 duo concert with Pauline Oliveros at The IJsbreker in Amsterdam. Also just released by JdK is a compilation of the Whitney's Bistreams exhibition's sound artists, which includes his piece Conch. He appears on many other CDs with Deep Listening Band and others.

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