Resl, Josef 04/13/1956

Resl received violin lessons at the age of five. From the age of fifteen he played drums. He studied classical percussion at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz. Austria, in the late 1970s and jazz percussion at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA (USA) in the early 1980s.[1] He attended master classes with Max Roach and Rashied Ali and completed a master's degree at the ''Mozarteum Salzburg''.

Since 1976 he has worked in recording studios as a drummer, arranger, composer and drum programmer. At the beginning of the 1980s he played concerts in Germany and Austria with the ''Mukhara Jazz Quartet'' which also resulted in a studio LP. At the beginning of the 1980s he was a musician and composer with the Linz percussion ensemble. From 1983 to 1989 he worked with the Austro pop band ''Superfeucht'', Reunion 2008. During this time he produced two LPs and several singles which were also successful in the Austrian charts. In 1985 he went on a European tour with ''Superfeucht'' together with ''Falco''. During this period he developed his own musical instrument; a drum set to control digital sounds (walking drumset).

Together with Hubert Bognermayr, he managed the ''Blue Chip Academy'' in St. Martin im Mühlkreis from 1989 to 1999, where he headed the digital education department. He is also the composer of the ''Blue Chip Orchestra'' (The First Digital Philharmonic Orchestra). The compositions were primarily composed on the first digital synthesizer with Fairlight CMI sampling technology. Several CDs were recorded. With this orchestra he played concerts in Hamburg, Cologne, Sevilla, Munich, Vienna and additional cities.

He created several commissioned compositions. In 1995 he opened his own recording studio in Ried im Traunkreis to create his own sounds and compositions. Since 2006 he has been involved in the social project "Music for Old People".

Resl has been working at the ''Upper Austrian State Music School'' since 1978 as a percussion teacher, music theory teacher and teacher training instructor. Since 1988 he has been working on the topic of "web-based instrumental teaching". His additionally newly developed concept especially for the combined percussion "Schlagwerk und Melodie" (Percussion and Melody) is published by ''Berklee Verlag München ''. Since the beginning of the 2000s he has taught as a percussion professor at ''BORG Kirchdorf an der Krems''.