Wolfgang Schliemann

percussionist.  improvisor.  performer.  composer.  teacher.

Studies of drums & percussion and musicology since the1970s.

Working as free-lancing percussionist on improvised / composed New Music, sound art and performance since the 1980s; activities in Germany and abroad.
Constant development of individual musical idioms focusing sound besides rhythm, especially the extension of techniques and instrumentation.

Solo / duo / ensemble / orchestral work; participation in projects based on intermediary concepts (dance / theatre / film etc ), increasingly refering to particular spaces (site specific projects); placing emphasis on synaesthetical impacts.