Georg Nussbaumer was born in 1964 in Linz, Austria, lives in Vienna. He frequently works with musical instruments expanded into installations, regularly employing diverse organic and inorganic materials as well as machines, video or living animals. The scores to what are usually full-length works define a process that is manifested in a plastic event, acoustically and visually, and that is sometimes also tactile or olfactory.
Nussbaumer realised projects including orpheusarchipel (Bielefeld Opera House, 2002); Märchen vom Lied vom Wald, (Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2002); Von der Wiege bis zum Graab (Donaueschinger Musiktage 2003); schlachten:szenen (Wien Modern 2005); Schwerefeld mit Luftabdrücken (Steirischer Herbst, Graz 2006), Tristan — Schwimmen und Schweigen (Nationaltheater Mannheim 2006), Die schönsten Gipfel der Alpen (Maerzmusik Berlin 2007), Lawine, Wald und Stubenmusi (Bregenzer Festspiele 2009), Walküren, Wölfe, Waldvöglein (Akademie der Künste Berlin 2010), Zwitscheresche, Trinklied und Verdichtungsflügel (KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen/Hannover 2011).
Recently realised works for public space have been expansive spatially and in temporal terms, for instance Organopolis (three evenings for seven church organs broadcast in a park, Vilnius 2009), Barkarola (for six evesdropping grand pianos wandering through £ódŸ for a week in 2009) and the 4-day passage opera stretched over 32 kilometres Invisible Siegfrieds Marching Sunset Boulevard (Ring Festival Los Angeles 2010). For the steirischer herbst 2014 he realised a piece for seven amateur choirs: Ein weststeirischer Wasserfall.
In collaboration with Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop: the 3-day string quartet installation Salon Q (Donaueschinger Musiktage 2010), Ringpolytop mit Rabenparabel (Projekt XI, Berlin 2010), Die Jaffa Orangen des Richard W. — ein israelisches Rheingold (radialsytem Berlin 2011, Opera Dagen Rotterdam 2012). Milchstrom, Fragebett, Gralsmaschinen — ein Lohengrin-Gelände (Kunstfest Weimar 2013), Ringlandschaft mit Bierstrom — ein Wagner Areal (sophiensaele Berlin 2013, Donaueschinger Musiktage 2013, operadhoy Madrid 2014).