Travis Just
Travis Just comes from a background in improvised music and experimental composition, his work often uses texts, gesture, and unconventional technologies in addition to instruments and electronics.
His work has been presented throughout the US and Europe at the Ontological Theater, Experimental Intermedia, Chez Bushwick/AMBUSH, Brooklyn College, Columbia University, Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC; TESLA/Podewil, KuLe, Berlin; CalArts, LA; Brown University; Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich; Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne; Kunstraum, Düsseldorf; Ivan Franko National Theater, Kiev, Ukraine, among others. His music has been performed by numerous ensembles including: Maulwerker, Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble, incidental music, Reihe Elektronischer Musik Bremen, and the Dog Star Orchestra.
He studied with Andrew Cyrille, James Tenney, Wadada Leo Smith, Michael Pisaro, and Johannes Fritsch and was a 2003 DAAD scholar in Cologne, Germany. He is a resident artist at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater where he is the sound engineer for Richard Foreman and a curator for the OHT-Incubator.