Christian Fennesz (born December 25, 1962) is an Austrian musician who uses guitar and computer to create his electronic compositions. He lives and works in Vienna and Paris. December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The classical guitar typically has 3 nylon and 3 nickel-wound strings. ... A computer is a device or machine for making calculations or controlling operations that are expressible in numerical or logical terms. ... Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ... View of Vienna This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

Fennesz has been recording with Ryuichi Sakamoto, with whom he also plays live, with Keith Rowe and Sparklehorse. He has also worked alongside Peter Rehberg and Jim O'Rourke in the improvisional trio Fenn O'Berg, and with David Sylvian who sang on his album Venice and for whom Fennesz composed the music for the song "A Fire in the Forest" for his album Blemish. Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一 Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese musician, composer, producer and actor. ... Keith Rowe is a British free improvisation guitarist. ... Mark Linkous is an American singer, songwriter and musian, best-known as the leader of Sparklehorse. ... Peter Rehberg is a German musician. ... Jim ORourke (born 1969) is an American musician and producer. ... An improvisional computer music trio made up of members Christian Fennesz, Peter Rehberg and Jim ORourke. ... David Sylvian David Sylvian (born David Batt in February 23, 1958) is a British singer and songwriter who first rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the band Japan, and whose subsequent solo career has been influenced by a variety of musical styles, including jazz and electronic music (primarily...

Fennesz had ties with the Vienna based record label Mego, and is now signed to Touch in the UK. View of Vienna This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ... Mego is an experimental electronic music record label based in Vienna, Austria. ... Touching is having or getting a zero distance; in geometry it refers especially to a tangent line or curve (cf. ...

Discography:

• Sala Santa Cecilia live EP with Ryuichi Sakamoto (Touch, 2005)
• Venice (Touch, 2004)
• Live in Japan (CD - Headz/Touch, 2003) and (LP - Autofact/Touch, 2005)
• Field Recordings: 1995-2002 (Touch, 2002)
• Endless Summer (Mego, 2001)
• Live at Revolver, Melbourne live EP (Touch, 2000)
• Plus Forty Seven Degrees 56' 37" Minus Sixteen Degrees 51' 08" (Touch, 1999)
• Plays (Mego/Mokai, 1999)
• Il Libro Mio EP (Mego, 1998)
• Hotel Paral.lel (Mego, 1997)
• Instrument EP (Mego, 1997)

Motion picture soundtracks: Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一 Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese musician, composer, producer and actor. ...

• Blue Moon , written and directed by Andrea Maria Dusl
• Gelbe Kirschen (Austria, 2000) , dir: Leopold Lummerstorfer
• Beyond the Ocean (USA, 1999)

With Fenn O'Berg: Blue Moon is an Austrian movie written and directed by Andrea Maria Dusl in 2002. ... Andrea Maria Dusl (* August 12, 1961 in Wien) is an Austrian/Swedish film director, author and illustrator. ... Leopold Lummerstorfer - born in Gramastetten (A). ...

• The Return of Fenn O'Berg (Mego, 2002)
• The Magic Sound of Fenn O'Berg (Mego, 1999)

External links

• official website
• Fennesz @ Touch
• Fennesz @ Mego