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Founded in 1998 48nord has an international standing as a
formation for experimental electro acoustic music. Siegfried
Roessert (e- and double bass, live-electronics, composition)
and Ulrich Mueller (guitar, live-electronics, composition
are consequently testing the boundaries of improvised
and composed music. Characteristic for the work of
48nord is the coaction between acoustic instruments
and 48nord's specific approach to the world of
electronic sound-generating and sound-processing.
48nord appears as a duo and performs with
international renowned musicians in various formations.
Based in Munich, 48nord composes experimental radio-plays
as well as music for theatre and ballet pieces.
48nord played among others at the Mouvement festival -
Music of the 21st Century / Saarbruecken, at the
at the "Spielart"-festival / Munich, the Munich Biennale
for Contemporary Musiktheatre and as "Guest of Goethe"
at the Goethe Institute / New York. In 2005 they appeared
as a trio together with "Tortoise" guitar player Jeff Parker
at the "open-systems"-festival / Herne, the London underground
radio station "resonance fm" and at the Centre for
Contemporary Arts, CCA / Glasgow.

A long term partnership connects 48nord with the American
trombone player, electronic-musician and composer
George Lewis with whom 48nord guested e.g. at the
"Sounds Like Now"-festival (New York / La MaMa ETC theatre),
at the "Controindicazioni"-festival in Rome.
With George Lewis, 48nord composed the radio play "Terminus"
for Deutschlandradio Kultur / Berlin.
Since 2004, Ulrich Mueller and Siegfried Roessert are part
of the George Lewis Octet (together with Miya Masaoka,
Kaffe Matthews, DJ Mutamassik, Jeff Parker and
Guillermo Brown) which was founded by George Lewis
on the occasion of the SWR New Jazz Meeting 2004.
In 2005, 48nord initiated the project "Trembling XXX"
In 2005, 48nord initiated Guillermo Brown, Lou Mallozzi,
Axel Singer and Sebi Tramontana) at the Munich
cultural centre "Gasteig".
48nord composes music for choreographies
of the Italian choreographer Jacopo Godani
for dance companies like the Bavarian state ballet,
the Nederlands Dans Theater, the Koninklijk Ballet
van Vlanderen and the Opera of Toulouse and for
theatre productions (among others for Ruth
Geiersberger and Alexander Gerner).
Ulrich Mueller and Siegfried Roessert received
the "Scholarship for music and new media" and
the "Scholarship for music in public space
(both awarded by the city of Munich) for
their work with 48nord.
In lectures, 48nord presented its work at the
"International Symposium for Improvised Music"
in Munich, the Art Institute of Chicago and
the Columbia University in New York.
In 2009, 48nord continues its collaboration
with Jacopo Godani with pieces at the Cedar Lake
Dance Company / New York, Opera du Rhin / Mulhouse,
the Royal Danish Ballet / Kopenhagen and the
Staatsballett Mainz.
In February, the new duo program "Dogshitgirl"
will be presented in Munich. For its 10th
anniversary, 48nord founded the new sextet
"...schsch", a musical melting pot of noise rock,
experimental avant-garde and jazz.
48nord ties in with the project "Killing Range", about which the Sueddeutsche Zeitung wrote:
"brute, urban, tampering wth boundaries
between extreme structure and improvisation".
For "...schsch", 48nord assembled their
musical companions of many years Rich Laughlin
(trumpet), Leo Gmelch (trombone, tuba), Thomas Simmerl
(percussion, drumset) and Wolfram Winkel (mallets, percussion).

48nord c/o
Siegfried Rössert
Guldeinstr. 35
80339 München