Jannik Giger is a swiss composer and sound-artist born 1985 in Basel.

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On „Orchestra“ he assembles an orchestra out of various, small Found-Footage samples. What emerges out of disparate materials and incoherent sound textures finally becomes a fictitious orchestra, a homogeneous, independent and through-composed apparatus in a fictional space. Every single sounds on the record has its origin in the composed instrumental music The sources are ranging from Bernard Hermann (Vertigo) to Xenakis (Cello Solo).