Ernst Karel works with analog electronics and with location recordings, sometimes separately, sometimes in combination, to create audio pieces that move between the abstract and the documentary. Karel’s audio work includes electroacoustic improvisation and composition; sonic ethnography; fieldwork-based research in the anthropology of sound; recording, mixing, and sound design for public radio and for nonfiction film and video; solo and collaborative sound installations; etc. Current music-sound collaborative projects include the long-running electroacoustic duo EKG and the New England Phonographers Union. Musicians with whom Karel has performed on trumpet and/or analog electronics include Jason Ajemian, Jim Baker, Matt Bauder, Jeb Bishop, Olivia Block, Blowhole, Alessandro Bosetti, Lucio Capece, Bobby Conn, Tim Daisy, Kevin Drumm, David Grubbs, Boris Hauf, Chris Heenan, Giuseppe Ielasi, Jeph Jerman, Annette Krebs, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Helen Mirra, Toshimaru Nakamura, Jeff Parker, members of Polwechsel, Key Ransone, Vic Rawlings, Gino Robair, Aram Shelton, Aiko Shimada, TV Pow, Ken Vandermark, Sabine Vogel, Weasel Walter, Otomo Yoshihide, Michael Zerang, and others. His often collaborative work in electroacoustic improvisation and composition has been released on Another Timbre, BoxMedia, Cathnor, Dead CEO, Formed, Kuro Neko, Locust, Lucky Kitchen, and Sedimental record labels, among others. Karel has mastered CD releases by Born Heller, Dragons 1976, Josephine Foster, the Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio, Matmos, Helen Mirra, Brendan Murray, Skeletons Out, Howard Stelzer, and others, and remastered classic releases for CD by Tod Dockstader, Gamelan Son of Lion, Ilhan Mimaroglu, David Nzomo, Kenneth Patchen, Ramon Sender, and others. Vilms for which Karel has edited and mixed sound include the award-winning Sweetgrass (Barbash and Castaing-Taylor, 2009) and Foreign Parts (Paravel and Sniadecki, 2010). Karel currently manages the Sensory Ethnography Lab and the Film Study Center at Harvard University, where as Lecturer on Anthropology, he also co-teaches courses in media archaeology and ethnographic audio and video production. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.