Robert Poss Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny

In 1986 Robert Poss founded wall-of-electric-guitars group Band Of Susans, which Rolling Stone Magazine described as "adamantly arty, brainy, visceral and bracing." B.O.S. went on to release two EPs and five LPs (all produced by Poss) before disbanding in 1995. In 2002 Poss released two companion solo CDs Distortion Is Truth and Crossing Casco Bay on Trace Elements Records. At the time, Tape Op Magazine described him as a “guitar genius, drone meister …the master of treated and manipulated guitars.” Since his 2002 releases, Poss has composed and performed music for choreographers Sally Gross, Alexandra Beller and Gerald Casel, has worked with ex-Band Of Susans member Susan Stenger on a 96-day musical installation for the Musée d’art Contemporain in Lyon, France, performed at the premier of composer Phill Niblock’s "Stosspeng" in Krems, Austria and contributed music to an Albert Maysles/Kristen Nutile documentary, Sally Gross: The Pleasure Of Stillness. In 2009 he performed with Rhys Chatham and Robert Longo at a Metropolitan Museum of Art retrospective and participated in Chatham’s Crimson Grail project for 200 guitars at Lincoln Center. He has also collaborated with Austrian visual artist Margret Wibmer and has written guitar-centric articles for The Leonardo Music Journal. In March 2012 he performed the music of John Cage, Yoshi Wada and Phill Niblock at the AV Festival in Newcastle, U.K. Reviewing his 2010 solo release Settings: Music For Dance, Film, Fashion and Industry, The Wire wrote that Poss' "abiding love for electric guitar is no casual dalliance or detached Platonic infatuation; it's an erotic commitment, an obsessive plunge into the instrument's metallic churn and enveloping drone."

INDEPENDENT/FREELANCE SOUND WORK, New York City October 1996 to present:Location sound recording/mixing for video for the BBC, ARD (Germany), RTL (Germany), Uden Associates (U.K.), Darlow Smithson (U.K.), Pioneer Productions (U.K.), VPRO (The Netherlands), Channel 7 (Australia), National Geographic Channel, Atlantic Productions, the Discovery Channel, PBS, WGBH, B Productions, City Lights Media Group, Lion Television, Fountainhead, CBC, Plani Presse (France) Alhurra Mideast Television Network, and various independents for corporate and ENG clients including Town and Country Magazine, Liz Claiborne, Philips, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Price Waterhouse, Reader’s Digest, Court TV, YTV (Canada), the National Hockey League, Madison Square Garden, MTV, ABC (Good Morning America) and NBC/Saturday Night Live.

New York City

“In the 1980s, when New York's art-noise scene was at its apex, British imprint Blast First willingly signed its innovators. In a quick swoop, the label became the home of Sonic Youth, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr. and Band of Susans. The group was the latest in New York's lineage of bands melding rock with the avant-garde - a pedigree that began in the late 1960s with The Velvet Underground.Formed by avant-garde flautist Susan Stenger and guitarist Robert Poss, Band of Susans was a rock band without the rock clichés…. Each instrument was given its own part, and they fitted together like building blocks to create droning, dense textures.The band's name came from the trio of Susans in the group's original line-up: Stenger on bass and Susans Tallman and Lyall on guitars. With Poss serving as the third guitarist and Ron Spitzer on drums, the quintet released the Blessing And Curse EP in 1987. The poppy single "Hope Against Hope" was chosen by Melody Maker as Single of the Week.- Julie Taraska, from The Rough Guide To Rock

M.S., Journalism

Activities and Societies: Graduated with Honors

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History, Electronic Music, Magna Cum Laude, Ba History With Honors,

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa.

B.A., American History

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum LaudeDutcher Prize for Excellence in American History