Karl Berger is a German jazz composer, piano player, and a musicologist with a PhD in Music Sociology. Most of his music has been very experimental and he has been active in countless Free Jazz circles. He directs the Creative Music Studio Archive project, in collaboration with Columbia University, New York, where over 400 recordings from the '70s and '80s are transferred to the digital domains. He participated in The Kitchen's New Music, New York festival in 1979.