GREGORY T. KUHN
Sound Engineer

Gregory T. Kuhn (Sound Engineer and Design) has participated in the avant-garde of the performing arts since 1986, as sound engineer, designer, composer, and collaborator. After receiving a BA in Music from Swarthmore College and doing graduate studies at Combs College of Music, he worked with Relache, New Music America 1987, and at the Yellow Springs Institute in the Philadelphia area. Since 1988 in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has contributed to numerous arts organizations, institutions, and individuals on a great diversity of local, national, and international projects for theater, multimedia, dance, and experimental and contemporary music performances. This is his tenth year with the Paul Dresher Ensemble.

In the music world he works with the California EAR Unit (LA), the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Opus415, Other Minds, AsianImprovArts, Mills College folks, the Goethe Institute, CNMAT (UCB), SF World Music Festival, City of Tribes record label, and the Good Sound Foundation. In the theater world his credits include work with Berkeley Repertory Theater, Magic Theater, BRAVA, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Theater of Yugen, Theater Arts (UCB), and the late Life On The Water, in addition to independent productions. Multi-disciplinary projects include collaborations with Pauline Oliveros, Margaret Jenkins, Pamela Z, Larry Reed/Shadowlight, Joanna Haigood/Zaccho Dance, Lauren Elder, Melissa Weaver, Randall Packer/Zakros InterArts, and the late Contraband, He has designed for Isadora Duncan Award performances by Joe Goode Performance Group, June Watanabe In Company, and Remy Charlip, and is often designing for other Bay Area choreographers like Robert Henry Johnson, Jose Navarrete, and Sonya Delwaide. His work has been heard in stages across the United States including the Library of Congress, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Walker Arts Center, the Spoleto Festival (SC), the International Puppet Festival (NYC), and in Europe including the Gulbenkian Amphitheater in Lisbon.

Kuhn is also a cross-disciplinary artist with two works of note. His 1990 "Cretan Maze" collaboration with Helena Mazzariello in the Robert Sibley Regional Preserve has now become an East Bay mecca (and spawned other mazes). Secondly, the collaborative "Mori: an internet-based earthwork" (telematic.walkerart.org, online version memento.ieor.berkeley.edu) brings live seismic data from the Berkeley-Hayward Fault into an interpretive environment; as part of the exhibit Telematic Connections "Mori" will exhibit over the next few years in San Francisco, Pasadena, Austin, Atlanta, and others.