Michael Vorfeld
Michael Vorfeld is a Berlin-based percussionist and visual artist working in improvised and experimental music. He plays percussion, bowed cymbals and string instruments of his own design, and makes electroacoustic pieces and works that combine light and sound. He is best known for Glühlampenmusik (Light Bulb Music), a performance in which incandescent bulbs and their switching devices become the sound source. Vorfeld studied in Cologne and Kassel, graduating in visual communication.
Glühlampenmusik
Michael Vorfeld marks 20 years of Glühlampenmusik—his electro-acoustic, audio-visual work using light bulbs to generate sound. Blending experimental music, sound art, and media installation, this Berlin-based artist creates a vivid microcosm where flickering light becomes a rich sonic experience.
Glück
The international quintet Glück combines percussionists of diverse stripes and their individual pronounced ways of playing. The five musicians are internationally renowned as soloists and with various musical outfits. An extremely sound orientated, fragile and transparent approach to their idiosyncratic percussion sets is what they all have in common. From diverse conjoint long-term projects (Vorwolf, Malatesta/Wolfarth, Misiiki) arose the shared wish to put the musical experiences made within t…
Pech
Pech is the latest duo recording from inside pianist Reinhold Friedl and avant- percussionist Michael Vorfeld. Over the past five years, this pair of German musicians have created some of the most engaging and imaginative electro-acoustic music, exploring the potentials of subtle performance techniques and refined compositional approaches. On Pech, the duo seek to uncover the hidden and masked character of their instruments - the piano is altered via various preparations and unconventional ways …
Misiiki
Burkhard Beins: percussion & string instruments. Dirk Marwedel: extended saxophone. Michael Vorfeld: percussion & string instruments.