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A native Texan who now resides in Seattle, Gunn, began his musical life at theage 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 ofOregon before moving to New York City where his professional life blossomed.

In 1992 he was asked to join David Sylvian and RobertFripp in a collaborative project that touredthroughout the United States, Europe and Japan. The band released "TheFirst Day" and "Damage" – a live recording from the RoyalAlbert Hall in London – both on VirginRecords. During this period Gunn also found time to record his first solo album"One Thousand Years.” This recording began his work merging storytelling,dreamtime and music.

In 1994 he joined King Crimson – a group manycontend as the most aggressively, adventurous rock band of all time. Over thenext decade he participated in seventeen King Crimson CDs, two DVDs andhundreds of performances. For his role in this configuration of the group (Belew,Fripp, Gunn and Mastelotto), Gunn helpedevolve 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, indepth, on his 11 solo recordings.

In addition to the powerful performances and recordings of The Trey Gunn Band, Gunn has toured and/or recorded with TOOL, John Paul Jones, Maynard J. Keenan’s “Pusicfer”, VernonReid, Azam Ali, David Hykes of the HarmonicChoir and played on Steven Wilson’s Grammy nominated recording “Grace For Drowning.”

2003 saw Gunn fully step into the world of multi-dimensional art forms. He began working on a series of children’s stories set in Africa, a setting of Gregory Orr’s poem “Orpheus and Eurydice” and he and Joe Mendelson gave birth to Quodia, a new form of multi-media performance art.

In addition to running his own media label (7d Media), he is currently dividing histime between his solo work, film and television scoring, buildingmulti-dimensional media projects and coaching musicians/artists/performers inthe creative process.

www.treygunn.com

www.7dmedia.com

www.quodia.com
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