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Contact: info[at]z-a-m[dot]eu sorry, this link is not active - we are trying to avoid spam postal address: ZAM e.V. c / o Sledziecki, Wörle Hochstadenstrasse 30 D-50674 Köln 
ZAM – Platform for Adventurous MusicZAM is an initiative of musicians, artists, and promoters to develop an open platform and international interface for projects, research and discourse across different scenes of and perspectives on modern music. The activities of ZAM include improvised music and contemporary composition as well as sound art and transdisciplinary projects. Through projects, productions, publications, and events, ZAM wants to further and communicate innovative, adventurous and marginal musics and to stimulate artistic exchange.ZAM aims to build a sustainable network to create space for experimentation and presentation, to offer multiple approaches and reach broader audiences, to initiate workshops and learning situations in and out of academies and schools ZAM is: Thomas Gläßer, piano, trumpet, improvisations, texts & concepts, catalyst of ZAM, studied economics, philosophy, politics ans jazz (piano), performed with Philipp Zoubek, Michael Thieke, Mike Anderson, Eric Schäfer, Howard Katz, Frank Gratkowski, Peter Kahlenborn, the experimental chamber orchestra FANTASMOFONIKMA (jazzart-price 2003) and in several dance/theatre projects. Maciej Sledziecki, experimental guitar, composition for film, theatre and television, curator of the concert series ”NACHTJOURNAL”/Cologne, studied jazz guitar and composition ,worked for LICHTBLICK FILM [Thomas Durchschlag: ”Allein”], PRODUKTION LOEKEN FRANKE [Loeken/Franke: ”Losers and Winners”] and many others. www.satelita.de Achim Tang, musician and bass player, sonic research in the realms of jazz, world music and improvisation, border-crossing contacts in all keys, interstellar journeys through the audible universe; and in the centre: music, collaborations with Marc Ducret, Stoyan Yankulov, Guy Klusevcek, Akemi Takeya, Joachim Kühn and David Tronzo and curator of “Grabenfest”/Vienna www.achimtang.com Marion Wörle / Frau W computer musician and architect (PBSArchitecture/Duesseldorf), studied piano early on electronic sounds later on, soundtracks for film, graphic design, artistic direction of projects and curation of “NACHTJOURNAL”, concerts across Europe, sound installation at ARS-ELECTRONICA/Timeshift 2004 Linz www.satelita.de Paul Hubweber, internationally acclaimed improvisor, trombonist, composer and activist, member of C.L.A.N., PAPAJO, London Improvisers Orchestra, SCHNACK a.o., performed with Peter Kowald, Jaap Blonk, Michel Doneda, Erhard Hirt, Paul Lytton, Frank Gratkowski, Paul Lovens, John Edwards, numerous international festival appearances (Moers Jazzfestival, Ars Electronica, Symposium Contemporary Music Copenhagen, Documenta VIII, etc.), CD-/Radio- and TV-Productions, soundtracks, seminars ans workshops. Joseph Suchy, Guitarist, remixer, producer, labelfounder (GEFRIEM, GROB), studied violin and guitar early on and sociology with Prof. Ulrich Beck at Uni Bamberg later on, musical travels to Arabia, Africa, and Asia, from 1990 ”four square logos” w/ F.X. Randomiz and Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars), deeply rooted in the sound worlds of Keji Haino, Keith Rowe, Edgar Varese, Jimi Hendrix, German 70´s experimental rock music (Neu, la Düsseldorf, Popol Vuh and Can) and non-European folk musics. His work has extended beyond bands and solo works to include soundtracks, theatre projects, dance pieces and installations. Till Kniola, curator, author, publisher (aufabwegen) and international DJ of noise and experimental electronics; until recently: artistic director and project manager at Kulturbunker Mülheim, Cologne, studied ethnology/music ethnology, publications on aufabwegen:: Collected Works/CD Asmus Tietchens (Szucka-Prize 2006), Zbigniew Karkowski/Kasper Toeplitz (CD), (Europa) www.aufabwegen.com Thomas Lehn, internationally acclaimed musician, composer and improvisor in the realm of live-electronics, studied sound engineering and piano in Detmold and Cologne, specialized in analoue synth systems like Moog & EMS, regular collaborations with musicians of he internaional avantgarde as KONK PACK, TOOT, FUTCH, MIMEO and with G. Hemingway, P. Lovens, M. Schmickler, E. Chadbourne, T. Bertoncini etc.. New Projects: GRAUZONE (Composition & Improvisation), ENSEMBLE HIATUS (Interpretation & Improvisation), Quartet w/ K. Vandermark/J. Bauer/P. Nilsson-Love, ca. 45 records published www.thomaslehn.com Matthias Mainz, trumpet, composition, media artist, motor of the multimedia-pool “Realtime Research”, www.realtime-research.org, studied trumpet in Essen and Cologne and works across the contexts and scenes of jazz, contemporary and electronic music, video art, fine arts and literature. On trumpet, Mainz draws on an astounding array of extended techniques, noises, microtones and electronics. Concerts and sound projects with Matthias Gröbel (New York 2002), Sonoaviatik/ Andres Bosshard (Art Cologne 2003), robot-arts collective F18 (Migros Kornkammer Bern 2004), James Choice Orchestra (Moers 2005), WDR-Bigband (Köln 2006) u.v.a. www.realtime-research.net Matthias Muche, trombonist and improvisor between jazz, contemporary music and intermedia, founder and co-curator of FRISCHZELLE, a series of transdisciplinary multimedia-projects and –festivals, studied jazz trombone in the Netherlands, and now studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, performances with Fantasmonfonika/Simon Rummel (JazzArt-Prize 2003), Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra feat. Niels Klein, Norbert Stein, Markus Stockhausen, Misha Mengelberg u.a. (”Forget About the Tulips”), Sonoaviatik/Andres Bossard (PlaygroundRobotics/Bern), Johan Plomp Orchestra (North Sea Jazz Festival 04) and Schäl Sick Brass Band... www.zeitkunst.eu/frischzelle/ Roland Schappert, media artist (photography, drawing, video, sound design and performance), classicaly trained pianist, projects and performances with live-electronics and guest musicians like classical singer Barbara Schachtner and pianist/composer Daniel Seel, lives and works in Cologne and Berlin, 2005 1st Prize Videonale XX, Kunstmuseum Bonn |