Ari Benjamin Meyers

(b. 1972 New York, lives in Berlin) is a composer and conductor internationally known for his diverse output and as a specialist for complex, cross-genre productions. His work, which is increasingly being presented in an art context, often takes the form of productive sabotage: he constructs and deconstructs musical situations that play on the expectations of audiences. The range of his activities is evidenced by his many collaborations including with the artists Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Anri Sala, and Tino Sehgal, the bands Einstürzende Neubauten (with whom he has made two cd’s), The Orb, and The Residents, the performance group La Fura dels Baus, the interdisciplinary architecture team Raumlabor Berlin, and the electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnik. His most recent film score was for the French horror film La Meute, which had its premiere as an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival. He is the founder of Soundfair and initiated the trend-setting project Club Redux – a platform in which he explored the pairing of contemporary music with dance and electronic music in a series of club nights in Berlin. The 17-piece Redux Orchestra that grew out of these performances has established itself as an independent force on the new music scene; their first solo CD was released on Potomak/Indigo and is a recording of Meyers’ 70 minute work SYMPHONY X. The German newspaper Die Zeit described his work this way: “A completely new music that doesn't even have a name yet.”