Turntablist, sound artist, performer & composer.
In his youth he studied the saxophone and performed in free jazz and avant rock bands. At the same time he was getting obsessed with multitrack tape machines, record players and effect boxes and he started experimenting with many different instruments and sound making devices. After college he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked for several years as an assistent for the contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl.
Since the late 1995 he works and lives in Berlin where he became an active and integral force of the so-called “Berlin Nouvelle Vague” and the blossoming “real time music” scene. From the middle of the nineties onwards his interest and activities almost completely shifted towards live-electronics and after testing various instrumentations (hard- & software samplers, signal processing, contact mics, field recordings, ...) he developed his own and quite unique electro-acoustic set-up which he calls “rotating surfaces”. Various objects and materials (from wood, metal, plastic, paper or violin bows and cymbals) are played directly on the rotating metal plate of the turntable and the vibrations are simply amplified with a small condensator microphone. With this set-up he covers many different styles of contemporary experimental music – ranging from extreme reductionism via ambient, industrial, musique concrete, electronica to harsh noise.
Besides his favorite setting – the direct duo-confrontation with the likes of Chris Abrahams (AUS), Andrea Belfi (I), Alexei Borisov (RUS), Sebastian Buczek (PL), Phil Durrant (GB), Gunnar Geisse (D), GX Jupitter-Larsen/The Haters (USA), Dawid Szczesny (PL), Martin Tetreault (CAN), Marcel Tuerkowsky (D) or Sabine Vogel (D) – he is member and founder of many different ensembles like Perlonex, Snake Figures Arkestra, Phosphor, Blind Snakes, Decollage, Berlin Sound Connective, N.I.E., ....
He has collaborated with numerous international artists (most notably Don Cherry & Charlemagne Palestine)and toured and performed clubs & festivals all over Eastern- and Western Europe, the USA, Russia and the Balkans. He released many albums on labels like Zarek, Edition Zangi, edition x, Irrah, Potlatch, Bad Alchemy, Charhizma, Staalplaat, Nexsound, Non Visual Objects, Improvised Music From Japan or Absinth and he was part of radio broadcasts and productions for ORF-Kunstradio, ORF-Zeitton, BR2, DLR, DLF, WDR3, DRS2 or Radio Copernicus (...)
Furthermore he has been curating festivals of experimental music from the early 90s onwards (FAM, Erase & Reset, Tim Shifts, ...) Since 2005 he has realized several sound installations.
AWARDS:
1994 music scholarschip from the City of Munich 
2006 sound art scholarship from the City of Berlin 
2008 sound art scholarship from Kuenstlerhaeuser Worpswede
SELECTED FESTIVAL APPEARANCES:
Bonner Herbst, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Forum Stadtpark (Graz), Echtzeitmusiktage (Berlin), Festival fuer Andere Musik (Berlin), Garage (Stralsund), 2:13 Festival (Athens & Berlin), Jazz & More Festival (Munich), Terza Prattica/Felix Meritis (Amsterdam), IZ(Z)VEN (Maribor/SLO) Rumor 19 (Utrecht), Musique Action (Nancy), Int. Night of Noise (NYC), Aural Anatomy (Pittsburgh), Fruits de Mhres (France), WienBerlin, Verbindingen/Jonctions (Bruxelles), Mesto Zensk (Ljubljana), Kryptonale (Berlin), Hoerkunstfestival (Erlangen), pianOH Stichting Logos (Ghent), Erase & Reset (Berlin), Festival of Experimental Music (Munich), Fotones (Bruxelles), Sound Shift/Big Sur Experimental Music Festival (Big Sur, CA), Space & Place (Berlin), Stare ueber Berlin (Museumsinsel Berlin), perlon.extensions (Podewil Berlin), Nous Sons Barcelona, SKIF (St.Petersburg), ALT F4 (Warsaw), Cobra Berlin, Musica Genera (Sczecyn), Generator Konzerthaus (Wien), Fete de la Musique (Geneva), Staalplaat Turntable Night Neues Museum Weserburg (Bremen), Aux Polen (Berlin/Cologne/Munich), Talking Back to Radio (Wroclaw), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Ljubljana-Berlin Soundbridge (Berlin/Ljubljana), Sound Forrest (Riga, LV), Jeunesse Musicales (Vienna), Open Music (Graz), Fete de la musique (Luxembourg), Bipolar (Berlin & Budapest), Time Shifts (Berlin), Mezinarodni Hudebni Festival Brno, Maerzmusik (Berlin), Angelica Bologna, Blurred Edges Hamburg, Zam Labor (Cologne), Kuenstlertage Hermannshof Voelksen, Berlin Sound Connective, Biegungen Berlin, Musrara Mix Festival (Jerusalem), ...
SELECTED COLLABORATORS
Thomas Ankersmit, Zoro Babel, Leo Bachmann, Serge Baghdassarian, Boris Baltschun, Burkhard Beins, Johannes Bauer, Mathias Bauer, Claus Van Bebber, Alexei Borisov, Alessandro Bosetti, Marc Boukouya, Tony Buck, Nicholas Bussmann, Lucio Capece, Mathieu Chamagne, Xavier Charles, Don Cherry, Mike Cooper, Anla Courtis, Matt Davis, Rhodri Davies, Yannick Dauby, Jim Denley, Dieb13, Dietmar Diesner, Axel Dörner, Phil Durrant, Andrea Ermke, Jason Forrest, Heribert Friedl Wolfgang Fuchs Jr., Nathan Fuhr, Andreas Gandela, Steven Garling, Robin Hayward, Christoph Heemann, Boris Hegenbart, John Hegre, Peter Hollinger, Philip Jeck, Bernd Jestram, Coti K, Jason Kahn, Zbigniew Karkowski, Annette Krebs, Dominik Kowalczyk, Borut Krzisnik, Christoph Kurzmann, Goh Lee Kwang, Kalle Laar, Keenan Lawler, Ronald Lippock, Greg Malcolm, Maurice De Martin, Stephan Mathieu, Andrea Neumann, Jerome Noetinger, MNortham, Alex Nowitz, Ivan Palacky, Charlemagne Palestine, Anthony Pateras, Jim Pepper, Robert Piotrowicz, Marino Pliakas, Prell, Jon Raskin, Michael Renkel, Gino Robair, Jan Roder, Keith Rowe, Olaf Rupp, Bob Rutman, Eran Sachs, Doro Schürch, Jacek Staniszewski, Stol, Martin Tetreault, Clayton Thomas, Torben Tilly, Sebi Tramontana, Valerio Tricoli, Roger Turner, Nikos Veliotis, Ute Voelker, Sabine Vogel, Volz, Michael Vorfeld, Jenny Ward, Mark Wastell, Wu Wei, Marc Weiser, Paul Wirkus, Stevie Wishart, Christian Wolfarth ...
 
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