Trey Gunn
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Trey Gunn is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 musician, known for his membership in progressive rock band King Crimson
King Crimson
King Crimson are a rock band founded in London, England in 1969. Often categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during their history...

 from 1994 to 2003, playing Warr Guitar
Warr guitar
Warr Guitars is a company that manufactures the Warr Guitar, a guitar like musical instrument developed by the company's founder, Mark Warr.-Description:The Warr Guitar resembles a standard electric guitar, albeit with a very low action and more strings...

 and Chapman Stick
Chapman Stick
The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords or textures...

.

Biography

A native Texan
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

 who now resides in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

, Gunn began his musical life at the age of seven playing classical piano. His interest in music grew through various instruments: electric bass, electric and acoustic guitar, keyboards, and the touch guitar. He moved to Eugene, Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Eugene is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Lane County. It is located at the south end of the Willamette Valley, at the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast.As of the 2010 U.S...

, and played in punk bands while he completed a degree in classical music composition at the University of Oregon
University of Oregon
-Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...

. He then moved to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 where his professional career began.

He spent some time as a student of Guitar Craft
Guitar Craft
Guitar Craft was a series of guitar and personal development classes, founded and often presented by Robert Fripp, who is best known for his work with King Crimson.-Courses:GC includes three ways of developing relationships:...

 with founder Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...

 and appeared on several Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists recordings. From 1988 to 1991, he toured playing Chapman Stick
Chapman Stick
The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords or textures...

 in the UK and Europe, with Toyah Willcox
Toyah Willcox
Toyah Ann Willcox is an English actress and singer. In a career spanning more than thirty years Toyah has had 13 top 40 singles, released 22 studio albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films, as well as voicing and presenting numerous television shows...

, Robert Fripp and Paul Beavis, at first under the band project name "Fripp, Fripp" who by the second tour became "Sunday All Over the World". They recorded and released one album in 1991 entitled Kneeling At the Shrine. In the same year and with the SAOTW line up, he also played stick on the solo Toyah album Ophelia's Shadow, produced by Toyah who was to later guest on his album, The Third Star.

In 1992, he was asked to join David Sylvian
David Sylvian
David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...

 and Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...

 in a collaborative project that toured the United States, Europe and Japan. The band released The First Day and Damage — a live recording from the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....

 in London. During this period Gunn also recorded his first solo album One Thousand Years.

In 1994, Gunn joined King Crimson. With King Crimson he played Chapman Stick and subsequently diverse types of Warr guitar and was part of the "double trio" formation opposite Tony Levin. In 1997, King Crimson fragmented into smaller configurations known as the ProjeKcts
ProjeKcts
The ProjeKcts are a succession of spin-off projects associated with the band King Crimson.Devoted to instrumental and heavily improvised music, the ProjeKcts were most active from 1997 to 1999, but have performed intermittently since...

. Gunn, along with Fripp, participated in all of the ProjeKcts performances and recordings. In 1999, the group mutated into a four piece — Belew, Fripp, Gunn and Mastelotto. He left Crimson after "The Power to Believe" tour in 2003. Over the course of his decade with the group he participated in thirty-three King Crimson CDs, two DVDs and hundreds of performances.

He has also performed and recorded with a number of other musicians: Tool
Tool (band)
Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the group's line-up has included drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Since 1995, Justin Chancellor has been the band's bassist, replacing their original bassist Paul D'Amour...

, Puscifer
Puscifer
Puscifer is a side project of Maynard James Keenan from the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle. As Keenan is the only permanent member and he considers the project to be his "creative subconscious", Puscifer could also be considered a pseudonym for his solo work....

, Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...

, Sean Malone
Sean Malone
Sean Malone is an American musician who plays primarily fretless bass guitar and Chapman stick. However, Malone also plays piano, keyboards, and guitar. He is most well known as a member of the progressive band Cynic.- Biography :...

 and Gordian Knot
Gordian Knot (band)
Gordian Knot is an American progressive rock/metal band directed by bass guitarist Sean Malone. At times its shifting lineup has included Steve Hackett of Genesis, Bill Bruford of King Crimson and Yes, Ron Jarzombek from Watchtower and Spastic Ink as well as Jim Matheos of Fates Warning, several of...

, David Sylvian
David Sylvian
David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...

, Vernon Reid
Vernon Reid
Vernon Reid is an English-born American guitarist, songwriter, composer, and bandleader. Best known as the founder and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Living Colour, Reid was named #66 on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.Critic Steve Huey writes, "[Reid's]...

, John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (musician)
John Paul Jones is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer. Best known as the bassist, mandolinist, and keyboardist for English rock band Led Zeppelin, Jones has since developed a solo career and has gained even more respect as both a musician and a...

, Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson is an American guitarist. Though he is best known for his success in the instrumental rock format, Johnson regularly incorporates jazz, fusion, gospel and country and western music into his recordings...

, Italian singer Alice
Alice (Italian singer)
Alice , also known as Alice Visconti is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist, active since 1971...

, Azam Ali
Azam Ali
-Biography:Born in Tehran, Iran 1970, Ali spent most of her childhood in Panchgani, India. Ali and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California in 1985, after which Ali discovered the santour...

, Matt Chamberlain
Matt Chamberlain
Matthew Chamberlain is an American drummer, producer and sound engineer. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:...

, Michael Brook
Michael Brook
Michael Brook is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer. He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores....

, Bill Rieflin, David Hykes
David Hykes
David Hykes is a composer, singer, musician, author, and meditation teacher. He was one of the earliest modern western pioneers of so-called overtone singing, and has developed since 1975 a comprehensive approach to contemplative music which he calls Harmonic Chant...

 of the Harmonic Choir and many more. He has released a number of solo albums, as Trey Gunn and as the leader of The Trey Gunn Band.

Years of working with broad-necked instruments like the Warr guiar affected Gunn physically and he had to seek less abusive outlets for his artistic expression. In 2003, Gunn founded the multi-media group Quodia
Quodia
Quodia is a performing group that uses multi-media tools to tell stories. Established by Trey Gunn of King Crimson and Joe Mendelson of Rise Robots Rise in 2003, Quodia tours throughout the world combining the mediums of music, film, sound design, literature and theater into a comprehensive and...

 with Joe Mendelson where he contributed more vocals than in previous projects and less Warr guitar. In 2004, he and Pat Mastelotto
Pat Mastelotto
Pat Mastelotto is a rock drummer who has worked with Mr. Mister and King Crimson, amongst others. For King Crimson he initially formed part of the "double trio" lineup, joining Bill Bruford on drums...

 started collaborating with Kimmo Pohjonen
Kimmo Pohjonen
Kimmo Pohjonen is a Finnish accordionist who is involved in a number of projects.- Uniko :Kluster meets Kronos Quartet in the Uniko project featuring music composed by Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen, commissioned by Kronos. Concerts in Helsinki, Moscow and Molde Jazz Festival were major successes...

 and Samuli Kosminen, forming KTU
KTU (band)
KTU is a progressive/experimental musical supergroup. In 2004 Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto started collaborating with Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen, forming KTU out of their respective duos TU and Kluster.-History:...

 out of their respective duos TU
TU (band)
TU is a band formed by Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto. They released one eponymous album in 2003.They opened for Tool on its 10,000 days tour on a few dates.-Track listing:#"Untamed Chicken"#"Absinthe & a Cracker"#"The NOOOSE"#"XTCU2"...

 and Kluster. In 2007, he began working with Eddie Jobson
Eddie Jobson
Edwin "Eddie" Jobson is an English keyboardist and violinist noted for his use of synthesizers. He has been a member of several progressive rock bands, including Curved Air, Roxy Music, U.K., and Jethro Tull. He was also part of Frank Zappa's band in 1976-77...

 in the group UKZ
UKZ
UKZ is an international progressive rock band, that was formed in 2007 by keyboardist/violinist Eddie Jobson, who had played in UK. The band also features former King Crimson guitarist Trey Gunn.-History:...

.

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, music supervising, and building multi-dimensional media projects.

Solo albums

  • One Thousand Years (1993)
  • The Third Star (1996)
  • Raw Power (1999)
  • The Joy of Molybdenum (2000)
  • Live Encounter (2001)
  • Road Journals (CD-ROM) (2002)
  • Untune The Sky (CD/DVD) (2003)
  • Music for Pictures (2008)
  • Modulator (2010)
  • I'll Tell What I Saw (2010)

With King Crimson (selected discography)

  • VROOOM
    VROOOM
    Vrooom is an EP by the band King Crimson released in 1994, a companion to the subsequent album Thrak .All of the tracks on Vrooom reappeared on Thrak as different recordings...

    (1994)
  • THRAK
    THRAK
    THRAK is an album by the band King Crimson released in 1995, the successor to the preceding mini-album Vrooom . This album was recorded in the "double trio" format of King Crimson.-Track listing:...

    (1995)
  • THRaKaTTaK
    THRaKaTTaK
    Thrakattak is a live album by the band King Crimson, released in 1996.*Compiled from performances of, and improvisations during, the piece "Thrak" in USA and Japan....

    (1996)
  • Deja VROOOM
    Déjà VROOOM
    Déjà Vrooom is a live DVD by the band King Crimson, released in 1999 as a double-sided disc and reissued in 2007 as a double-layer disc. It was recorded at Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan, 5-6 October 1995...

    (DVD) (1999)
  • The ProjeKcts
    The ProjeKcts
    The ProjeKcts is a 1999 box set of four live albums recorded between 1997 and 1999 by four side projects of the band King Crimson, known as ProjeKcts.-Overview:...

    (4CD Box Set) (1999)
  • The ConstruKction of Light
    The ConstruKction of Light
    The ConstruKction of Light is an album by the band King Crimson, released in 2000. It has the distinction of being the first studio album to be released by King Crimson without Bill Bruford on drums since prior to the release of Lark's Tongues in Aspic . It also in notable for the absence of Tony...

    (2000)
  • Level Five
    Level Five
    Level Five is a live album by the band King Crimson, released in 2001.*Recorded in the USA and Mexico in 2001.-Track listing:#"Dangerous Curves" 5:38...

    (2002)
  • The Power to Believe
    The Power to Believe
    The Power to Believe is an album by the band King Crimson released in 2003, a companion to the preceding mini-album Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With ....

    (2003)
  • Eyes Wide Open
    Eyes Wide Open
    Eyes Wide Open is an exhibit created by the American Friends Service Committee observing the American soldiers and marines that have died in the Iraq War. It contains a pair of combat boots to represent every American soldier and marine that has died in the war, as well as shoes representing Iraqi...

    (DVD) (2003)

With others

  • 1991 Ophelia's Shadow (with Toyah
    Toyah
    Toyah may refer to:*Toyah Willcox, a singer, actress, and TV presenter, often referred to by her first name only*Toyah , the pop group fronted by Toyah Willcox between 1977 and 1983*Toyah, Texas, a town in Texas, USA...

    )
  • 1991 Kneeling at the Shrine (with Sunday All Over the World)
  • 1993 The First Day (with David Sylvian
    David Sylvian
    David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...

     / Robert Fripp
    Robert Fripp
    Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...

    )
  • 1993 Darshan (The Road To Graceland)
    Darshan (The Road To Graceland)
    Darshan is the second of three collaborations between David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, but actually is more a remix album since the first two tracks are remixes of the original song "Darshan". It was released on 6 December 1993. Except 2 written by David Sylvian, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, David...

    (with David Sylvian / Robert Fripp)
  • 1994 Damage: Live
    Damage: Live
    Damage is a live recording of a 1993 tour by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp. It is taken from the final show of the tour.This album, originally mixed by Fripp, was first released in 1994 as a limited edition box set: a 24-carat gold CD and 32-page colour booklet in a jewel box inside a cardboard...

    (with David Sylvian / Robert Fripp)
  • 1994 Dream
    Dream
    Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, philosophical intrigue and religious...

    (with U. Srinivas
    U. Srinivas
    Uppalapu Shrinivas , is an Indian mandolin player of the Carnatic musical tradition of Southern India. Shrinivas plays an electric mandolin and has collaborated with John McLaughlin, Michael Nyman, and Michael Brook...

     & Michael Brook
    Michael Brook
    Michael Brook is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer. He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores....

    )
  • 1995 Charade
    Charade (Alice album)
    Charade is the thirteenth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in late 1995 on WEA/Warner Music.After a three year long artistic and legal dispute with her label EMI Music Alice signed with WEA in 1995 and then released her first studio album since 1992's Mezzogiorno sulle...

    (with Alice
    Alice (Italian singer)
    Alice , also known as Alice Visconti is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist, active since 1971...

    )
  • 1996 Cortlandt
    Cortlandt (album)
    -Track listing :# Controversy # Splinter # Fisher's Gambit # Hand Full of Earth # Giant Steps # At Taliesin # Big Sky Wanting # The Big Idea...

    (with Sean Malone
    Sean Malone
    Sean Malone is an American musician who plays primarily fretless bass guitar and Chapman stick. However, Malone also plays piano, keyboards, and guitar. He is most well known as a member of the progressive band Cynic.- Biography :...

    )
  • 1999 Gordian Knot
    Gordian Knot (album)
    Gordian Knot was the debut album of Sean Malone's progressive rock project of the same name.-Track listing:#"Galois" - Malone#"Code/Anticode" - Malone, Reinert, Gunn, Jarzombek...

    (with Gordian Knot
    Gordian Knot (band)
    Gordian Knot is an American progressive rock/metal band directed by bass guitarist Sean Malone. At times its shifting lineup has included Steve Hackett of Genesis, Bill Bruford of King Crimson and Yes, Ron Jarzombek from Watchtower and Spastic Ink as well as Jim Matheos of Fates Warning, several of...

    )
  • 1999 Zooma
    Zooma
    Zooma is the 1999 instrumental debut solo-album by former Led Zeppelin bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones.It showcases his acoustic abilities along with his composing abilities...

    (with John Paul Jones
    John Paul Jones (musician)
    John Paul Jones is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer. Best known as the bassist, mandolinist, and keyboardist for English rock band Led Zeppelin, Jones has since developed a solo career and has gained even more respect as both a musician and a...

    )
  • 1999 Birth of a Giant (with Bill Rieflin / Robert Fripp / Trey Gunn)
  • 1999 The Repercussions of Angelic Behavior (with Bill Rieflin / Robert Fripp / Trey Gunn)
  • 2005 TU (with TU
    TU (band)
    TU is a band formed by Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto. They released one eponymous album in 2003.They opened for Tool on its 10,000 days tour on a few dates.-Track listing:#"Untamed Chicken"#"Absinthe & a Cracker"#"The NOOOSE"#"XTCU2"...

    )
  • 2005 8 Armed Monkey
    8 Armed Monkey
    -Line-up:*Kimmo Pohjonen: accordion, voice*Samuli Kosminen: accordion samples, voice samples*Pat Mastelotto: drums and rhythmic devices*Trey Gunn: Warr guitar-External links:***...

    (with KTU
    KTU (band)
    KTU is a progressive/experimental musical supergroup. In 2004 Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto started collaborating with Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen, forming KTU out of their respective duos TU and Kluster.-History:...

    )
  • 2006 Elysium for the Brave
    Elysium for the Brave
    Elysium For The Brave is singer/songwriter Azam Ali's second album.-Track listing:#"Endless Reverie"#"Spring Arrives"#"In Other Worlds"#"Abode"#"Forty One Ways"#"The Tryst"#"From Heaven To Dust"#"I Am A Stranger In This World"#"In This Divide"...

    (with Azam Ali
    Azam Ali
    -Biography:Born in Tehran, Iran 1970, Ali spent most of her childhood in Panchgani, India. Ali and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California in 1985, after which Ali discovered the santour...

    )
  • 2007 V Is for Vagina (with Puscifer
    Puscifer
    Puscifer is a side project of Maynard James Keenan from the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle. As Keenan is the only permanent member and he considers the project to be his "creative subconscious", Puscifer could also be considered a pseudonym for his solo work....

    )
  • 2007 The Arrow
    The Arrow (album)
    The Arrow is the debut album by the multi-media project fronted by Trey Gunn and Joe Mendelson called Quodia. It is a concept album divided into seven chapters.-Track listing:Chapter 1# "We Began With a Woman" – 4:24# "The Arrow" – 1:26...

    (CD/DVD) (with Quodia
    Quodia
    Quodia is a performing group that uses multi-media tools to tell stories. Established by Trey Gunn of King Crimson and Joe Mendelson of Rise Robots Rise in 2003, Quodia tours throughout the world combining the mediums of music, film, sound design, literature and theater into a comprehensive and...

    )
  • 2007 Escape Plan (with Stretching Madness)
  • 2008 Squeeze Me Ahead of Line (with The Season Standard)
  • 2009 Quiver (with KTU)
  • 2009 Down in Shadows (with N.y.X)
  • 2010 Cocoon (with Inna Zhelannaya)
  • 2011 Grace For Drowning
    Grace for Drowning
    Reception for the album has been generally positive. Ben Bland of Steroboard wrote positively of the album, stating "For a work so defiantly widescreen in its intentions as this, it is truly remarkable that there is nothing that could, or rather should, be accused of being filler or being over the...

    (with Steven Wilson
    Steven Wilson
    Steven John Wilson is an English musician, best known as the founder, lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree...

    )

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