I started playing percussion as a teenager and from an early age I was also very interested in the sonic aspects of the percussive world. So it happened that I soon used new playing techniques and instrumental preparations. In 1991, through a theatrical production in which I was involved as a live musician, I finally had the opportunity to have a piano maker build stringed instruments according to my ideas. At the beginning of the 2000s, my further focus as a media artist finally led to the project "GLÜHLAMPENMUSIK", in which light and sound merge in a direct symbiosis. I started collaborating with experimental musicians early on and exploring new and unknown worlds of sound in different constellations. One of these groups was the sound art group "Heinrich Mucken", which was founded in 1982 and focused on site-specific sound actions. In 1987 I was also present with this group at documenta 8 in Kassel.

Michael Vorfeld is a musician and visual artist, plays percussion and self-designed string instruments and realizes electroacoustic sound pieces. He works in the field of experimental, improvised music and sound art, realizing installations and performances with light and sound, and working with photography and film. In addition to his solo activities, he is a member of various ensembles and collaborates with artists who work in many different art forms. Based in Berlin, his list of activities includes numerous concerts, performances and exhibitions in Europe, America, Asia and Australia.

Michael Vorfeld participated in the documenta 8, Kassel with the sound performance group “Heinrich Mucken“.

Concerts (among many others): in the Palais des Beaux Art, Brussel, at Experimental Intermedia, New York, in the Podewil, Berlin, in the t-u-b-e, Gallery for radiophonic Art, Munich, in the Academy of Arts, Berlin, in the Goethe-Institute, Hanoi, at the Outer Ear Festival, Chicago, at the Liquid Architecture Festival, Melbourne, Sidney and Brisbane, at MaerzMusik, Berlin, at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, at the Actual Music Series, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, USA, in the Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, in the Tesla, Berlin, at the P-Festival, Taipeh, in the Opera-Space, State Opera, Munich, at Rojo-Nova, Rio de Janeiro, at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, England, at the Tsonami Sound Art Festival, Valpareiso, Chile, at the Dark Circuit Festival, New York, at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, at the Moers Festival, Moers,at the Irtijal Festival, Beirut, at the AudioArt Festival, Krakow, Poland, at the Festival Densité, France, at the Oscillation Festival, Brussel, at the Biennial for Actual Music, Bremen, at the Festival for or Actual Music, Hamburg, at the Festival Le Bruit De La Musique, France, at the Festival Imaginaere Musik, Berlin, at the AFAC Summer Festival, Berlin, at the Masnaa Festival, Casablanca, at the Ultima Festival, Oslo, at the BAM Festival, Berlin…

Videos / Movies

• OUROBOROS, Chris Heenan, Michael Vorfeld, Adam Pultz Melbye
• Percussion Solo, filmed by Vincent Moon
• LIGHT BULB MUSIC, Tsonami Sound Art Festival, Chile
• LICHT AN, a music performance around the lightbulb with Michael Vorfeld & Anna Clementi
• SILHOUETTE, a film by Michael Vorfeld