She studied the visual arts, which still have an important influence on her music - for example the abstract painting in its materiality or the Fluxus-movement with its affinity to music.
Since moving to Hamburg in 1982 she has been involved in free improvisation, co-founding a musicians collective, - dance-projects and solo-performances, played often in occasional / once-only groupings with many of the European and American improvisers.
Music Performances in Europe, USA and the Middle East, together with UNSK (Birgit Ulher / Martin Küchen / Lise-Lott Norelius / Raymond Strid), Jürgen Morgenstern, Martin Klapper (CD-Momentaufnahmen), the Trio PUT (with Ulrich Phillipp und Roger Turner) (CD-Umlaut), Nordzucker (with Lars Scherzberg and Michael Maierhof), Tim Hodgkinson, Dorothea Schürch, Rhodri Davies, Söres Zsolt, Robyn Schulkowsky, Sean Meehan, Sven-Ake Johansson, Gino Robair, Martin Blume, Lucio Capece, Christoph Schiller, Ernesto Rodrigues, Carlos Santos,
John Edwards, Michael Zerang, Damon Smith, Albert Markos, Gene Coleman and Ute Wassermann.
Current music projects:
Nordzucker
with
Lars Scherzberg, sax
Michael Maierhof, cello
Chris Heenan, counterbass clarinet
Solo
Radio Silence No More
Birgit Ulher, trumpet, radio, mutes, speaker
Duos
with Ute Wassermann, voice
with Gino Robair, energized surfaces, voltage made audible
schön ist die Erinnerung - wollte eh mal nach Hamburg fahren in nächster Zeit, da melde ich mich vorher (rechtzeitig), hoffentlich klappts dann. Grüße Christofer
Best wishes for 2009, Birgit! I just was thinking about how nice it would be to play with you again! I hope you will be able to come to Chicago. Let's see what the new year has for us...
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