Gisburg is a composer and singer born in Salzburg/ Austria. She has toured around the world as a concert singer for new music with Dieter Schnebel and his vocal group Die Maulwerker. 1985 until 1992 she lived in Berlin where she attended the Berlin University as a guest student for composition and modern music theatre with Prof. Dieter Schnebel and Prof. Witold Szalonek and for visual arts with Eva Maria Schön. Settling down in NYC in 1992 she founded several groups for new music and recorded 3 CDs with her own compositions on John Zorn’s label Tzadik. With Phil Painson she founded the experimental trip hop band Douce which released the sound track CD High Life on GP Music. Currently Gisburg is teaching a New Media/Podcast Course at The University of Rochester.