Reviewers have described the music of Douglas Geers as "...glitchy... keening... scrabbling... contemplative" (Steve Smith, New York Times), "kaleidoscopic" (Andrew Lindemann Malone, Washington Post), "fascinating...virtuosic...beautifully eerie" (Jim Lowe, Montpelier Times-Argus), "..expertly showy..." (David Cleary, New Music Connoisseur), "...Powerful..." (Neue Zuericher Zietung), "virtuosic exuberance" (Computer Music Journal), and have praised its "shimmering electronic textures" (Kyle Gann, Village Voice.) Mr. Geers has composed in a wide range of musical styles, including classical concert music, pop songs, television and film scores, electroacoustic music. His work focuses on creative utilizations of new technologies and multimedia dimensions, with a continuing emphasis on interactive electroacoustic works.

Mr. Geers' music has been performed worldwide, on concerts in North and South America, England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, China, Australia, as well as TV, radio, and the Internet. 

Geers has participated in events and worked with numerous organizations, including the Bourges festival, the ISCM World Music Days festival, the International Computer Music Association, the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, the University of Paris, the Swiss National Television Network (SF 1), Humbolt Universität (Berlin), der Theater an der Sihl (Zürich), The Seoul International Computer Music Festival, the Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung, Festival Unicum, The American Festival of Microtonal Music, The Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, the International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music,  the Sonic Circuits festival, the DIEM Mix.02 festival, Engine 27, The College Music Society, Composers Collaborative, MANY (Musicians and Artists in New York), the Fulbright Foundation, the Slipper Room, the Cincinnati Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Ought One Festival,  the American Living Room Festival, Vox Novus, the Third Practice Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, NYMAE, the Media CIRCUitS festival, the Electic Rainbow Coalition festival, the Ghosts in the Wiring festival, the New Music/New Media festival, the American Composers Alliance, the Society of Composers, Inc.,  Macalester Gallery, and Fuse. Please see a list of recent and upcoming performances here.

Artists who have performed or presented his works include the Radio-Television Orchestra of Slovenia, Speculum Musicae, Ensemble Pi, Ensemble Fa, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Maja Cerar, the NODUS ensemble, the NeXT Ens, Jed Distler, Regie Cabico, Darryn Zimmer, Phillip Siegel, Matthew Polashek, The New York University New Music and Dance Ensemble, Steve Cohn, Greg Beyer, Craig Priebe, John Goodell, Sønreel, Plug, Charity Cabico, Jenna Espisito, Michael Ross, Robert Osborne, Gabrielle Rubinstein, Guillermo Castro, Ron Drummond, Julio Matos, Timothy O’Neill, Margaret Moore,Siri Rama, Jason Freeman, Kathleen McQuiston, Jonathan Lee, Ramin Amir Arjomand, Toby Broadie,  Julie Grinfeld, Heather Hinds, Jamy Hsu, Jackie Zalewski, Adam Bowles,  Stuart Gerber, Brian Short, Music97 Ensemble, and the University of Minnesota Big Band.

In October 2006, Geers' violin concerto Laugh Perfumes was premiered by the RTV Orchestra of Slovenia (Evan Christ, conductor; Maja Cerar, violin) on the final concert of the 2006 Festival Unicum in Ljubljana, Slovenia.  This performance broadcast live on Slovene national radio and was later shown twice on Slovene National Television.  Other noteworthy performances include the European premiere of Enkidu at the 2003 International Society of Contemporary Music World Music Days Festival and Geers' 2002 production of his 70-minute multimedia theater work, Gilgamesh, in a series of performances at the Theater an der Sihl in Zürich, Switzerland.  Current projects include Calling, an opera scheduled for fall 2008 premiere at La Mama in New York City (concept and libretto by Wickham Boyle); Telling Time, a multimedia collaboration with artists Lynn Lukkas and Christopher Baker, for a spring 2008 premiere; and Inanna, a multimedia theater work created with director Mirjam Neidhart, slated for a 2008 premiere.

Mr. Geers has worked extensively in the field of computer music, achieving many honors. In particular, for several years he has been exploring the combination of computer-generated sounds with traditional instruments and visual media, and many of these works have received prominent performances: The International Computer Music Association has chosen him many times for concert performances at the ICMC, its annual festival to recognize the leading talents in this field.  Mr. Geers has also had several performances by SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States).  Recently, is compositions Wormy and Started Saying were chosen for inclusion on SEAMUS' 20th anniversary CD, and his composition Turnstile was chosen for inclusion on the CD "Music from SEAMUS, Volume 10." Please see Geers' music page for a complete list of recordings.

Mr. Geers has won many grants and awards, including a 2007 McKnight Foundation Composer Fellowship, a  Composers Commissioning Project prize from the Jerome Foundation, a 2001 Dynamic Duos commission from Composers Collaborative, Inc., the 2000 Roth-Thomson award for "Impressive project for musical composition," and others from ASCAP, Meet the Composer, der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Wintertur, the Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Composers Forum, Columbia University, the Mellon Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Friends of CCM, the University of Cincinnati, the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minesota, and Xavier University. He has received additional commissions from artists and groups including Festival Unicum, the MD7 Ensemble, Composers Collaborative, the NeXT Ens, Maja Cerar, Greg Beyer, Matthew Polashek, Shiau-uen Ding, and the New York University New Music and Dance Ensemble.

Douglas Geers was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA). He studied via scholarships at Xavier University (B.A. in English and Music), the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (Master of Music), and Columbia University (Doctor of Musical Arts, 2002). As a Presidential fellow at Columbia, Geers studied composition, theory, and computer music with Fred Lerdahl, Tristan Murail, Brad Garton, and Jonathan Kramer. During the 2000-2001 academic year Mr. Geers lived in Oslo, Norway for ten months, working in residence at the NOTAM computer music studios at the University of Oslo, via a Fulbright Foundation grant. Since August, 2002 he has been employed as Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Electronic Music Studios at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), USA.

In addition to his composition, Geers is co-founder and performer in the electroaacoustic trio Sonreel, is a co-founder and co-Director of the Electric Music Collective, an internationally-based group of electroacoustic composer-performers, and is co-founder and performer in the electroacoustic duo Plug. In 2003 he created the annual Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, of which he is Director. The Spark Festival has since become an internationally-renowned event, and continues to increase its profile and esteem.  

Geers has also has worked as a staff writer for New York Concert Review, and as a contributor to Gramophone, Electronic Musician Magazine, Array, the Computer Music Journal, and the SEAMUS Journal.