Owen Gardner
strings
Baltimore

Owen Gardner was born in 1985 in Annapolis, MD and raised in Dubuque, Iowa. His work in composition and improvisation (and dish-washing) is informed to a great extent by his involvement in Baltimore's non-rock underground, as well as his study of Medieval European and certain non-Western musics. He has worked almost exclusively in Just Intonation, a tuning system too arcane and fascinating to adequately explain here, since 2006. He has been a member of the Red Room Collective since 2009. As a performer Mr. Gardner flies solo as often as not, but also works or has worked with groups including Black Vatican, Janitor, Matmos, Second Nature and Teeth Mountain.