Trey Gunn

A native Texan who now resides in Seattle, Trey Gunn, began his musical life at the age of 7 playing piano. His interest in music grew through various instruments: electric bass, electric and acoustic guitar, keyboards, and the touch guitar. He completed a degree in classical music composition at the University of Oregon, while playing in punk bands, before moving to New York City where his professional life blossomed.

In 1992 he was asked to join David Sylvian and Robert Fripp in a collaborative project that toured throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. The band released "The First Day" and "Damage" – a live recording from the Royal Albert Hall in London – both on Virgin Records. During this period Gunn also found time to record his first solo album "One Thousand Years.”

In 1994 he joined King Crimson – a group many contend as the most aggressively, adventurous rock band of all time. Over the next decade he participated in seventeen King Crimson CDs, two DVDs and hundreds of performances. For his role in the last configuration of the group (Belew, Fripp, Gunn and Mastelotto), Gunn helped evolve a new and unique instrument. This 'tapped' instrument, the Warr Guitar, is a 10-string touch guitar with the range of a piano. It can be heard, in depth, on his 7 solo recordings.

In addition to the powerful performances and recordings of The Trey Gunn Band, Gunn has toured and/or recorded with Tool, Brian Eno, Pusicfer, John Paul Jones, Azam Ali, Vernon Reid, Tony Levin, Eric Johnson, Matt Chamberlain, David Hykes of the Harmonic Choir and has spent nearly 20 years in diverse musical partnerships with Robert Fripp.

2003 saw Gunn fully step into the world of multi-dimensional art forms. He and Joe Mendelson (Rise Robots Rise) gave birth to Quodia -- a new form of multi-media performance. Quodia concerts, that integrate live music, film, language and storytelling, have continued to take Trey deep into cultures far from his Texan roots: Russia, Norway, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and more.

In addition to helping run a collective music label based in Seattle called First World (FWD) and a multi-media production company (7 Directions), he is currently dividing his time between his solo work, film and television scoring, building multi-dimensional media projects and writing a book about peak musical experiences.

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