Edith Steyer is a free improvising and composing clarinet and alto saxophone player with her roots in jazz and classical music. As a former student for social anthropology she is also interested in ethnic music. She is dedicated to the exploration of her instruments and prepares them with music tools and elements from every day life. She also experiments and combines the prepared instruments with electronic devices and feedback. Aside from working on a solo concept, her foremost interest is to create intelligently woven nets of interaction and noisy sound scapes with other artists.
As a part of the Improvised or “Echtzeit” music scene of Berlin, she works in bands like Sorbd (w/Mia Dyberg, Rieko Okuda, Isabel Rößler, Sofia Borges), Silberholz (w/Chris Heenan, Adam Goodwin), Red Color Trio (w/Hada Benedito, Isabel Rößler) but also in electro-acoustic groups like Homo Phaser (w/Beat Keller) and Evil Joe (w/Vojta Drnek, Kellen Mills). In Berlin she was also working with musical theatre groups, like Das Wilde Klingen and Mann Aus Obst.

Edith got grants for her work from the Senate of Berlin, Deutscher Musikrat, Musikfond and Goethe Institute.

Some Festivals she performed in:

• Fusion Lärz, Multiversal Berlin
• Ooh Festival – Ragusa (Sicily) London Amsterdam
• SOTU Festival Amsterdam
• MIA Festival Portugal
• Instant Music Series Amsterdam
• Interpenetrationen Graz, pin-to-tonics Amsterdam
• Kaleidophon Ulrichsberg
• Festivals in Odessa und Chisinau

Photo by Bastek Lakas, live from Katowice, Poland, 2024