{"id":254,"date":"2008-12-17T15:21:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:04:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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in Kasai, September 2023.
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in San Francisco, August 2023.
photo: William Hopkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Billy Gomberg lives in San Francisco, California. His practice incorporates traditional & modern synthesis, digital treatments, acoustic location recordings and occasional instrumentation. Commitments to improvisation, exploration of internal and external spaces, interpersonal relationships as pathways for meaning and emotional exchange, guide his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024’s Nanahari Edit<\/em> <\/a>(again from Dinzu Artefacts) documents a live performance in Tokyo from September 2023 of raw digital loops, a collage of location recordings from the west coast, mild revisions and light reveries in overdubbing. Concise and bright, a profound excursion to new territory with some close comforts in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022’s Wilderness and Luxury<\/a> <\/em>on Dasa Tapes articulates shifts and returns grown from living in California. New locations, rediscovered materials and techniques finding a poetic perspective on topographies of experience, threading urban environments, and natural (built) spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Billy’s solo LP Slight At That Contact<\/a><\/em> was pressed by Students of Decay and released in October 2016, a modestly “mature” impression of urban abstraction and poetics.  The cassettes Transition<\/a> <\/em>and Beginners<\/a><\/em>, were released in 2017 and 2018 (respectively) on Dinzu Artefacts, with A Changed Meaning<\/a><\/em> issued by Strange Rules coming between them, a trio of works wandering various paths beyond those earlier spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Billy’s published recordings stretch back to 2005, including 2009’s touchstone Comme<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extinguishment<\/a>, <\/em>a duo with Andy Guthrie under the name Fraufraulein, was released by Another Timbre in early 2015, their follow-up Heavy Objects <\/a><\/em>was released by Marginal Frequencies in 2017.\u00a0Solum<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>was released on Notice Recordings in 2021, like Wilderness and Luxury,<\/em> reflects ongoing changes to their lives and geographies. Further down this path arrives Solum<\/em><\/a>, released in 2025 on Mappa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hotel Matsunoi, Shin-Okubo, Tokyo, Sept 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Queens NY, 2017. photo: Paloma Kop. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Billy Gomberg lives in San Francisco, California. His practice incorporates traditional & modern synthesis, digital treatments, acoustic location recordings and occasional instrumentation. Commitments to improvisation, exploration of internal and external spaces, interpersonal relationships as pathways for meaning and emotional exchange, guide his work. 2024’s Nanahari Edit (again from Dinzu Artefacts) documents a live performance in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-254","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2233,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/works-performances\/","url_meta":{"origin":254,"position":0},"title":"Works & Performances","author":"billy gomberg","date":"January 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Music + VideoApril 2025: Fraufraulein, greater honeyguide, CS\/digital, Mappa.June 2024: Nanahari Edit, CS\/digital, Dinzu Artefacts.April 2022: collage of original work for Radio Sygma.April 2022: track included in cachedmedia's Flitr compilation.March 2022: mix for Beyond\/Below.February 2022 : Wilderness And Luxury, CS\/digital, Dasa Tapes.April 2021 : \"Coyote Encounter\" contribution to Collection 2021,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1272,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/opening\/","url_meta":{"origin":254,"position":1},"title":"opening","author":"billy gomberg","date":"April 29, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"My name is Billy Gomberg. I live in San Francisco. This site largely documents my work in music, with occasional moments of engagement with visual and other media. A collage of new work assembled for radio.syg.ma is now available for streaming: radio.syg.ma \u00b7 GUESTS 156 \u2013 Billy Gomberg Wilderness And\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/video\/","url_meta":{"origin":254,"position":2},"title":"video","author":"billy gomberg","date":"January 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"My visual practice grew directly from my work with computer-based music, and is similarly rooted in real-time creation, as well as an aesthetic interest in the relationship between texture, perception, and abstraction. \u00a0I occasionally do live projections at concerts and other events. More are available for viewing at my Vimeo\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":118,"href":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}