Martin Lorenz
Martin Lorenz has been active as a drummer, electronic musician and composer in the contemporary and experimental music scene since 1999. He is the founder of the record label Dumpf Edition, which he curates together with Luc Döbereiner. Lorenz creates instrumental music and media-specific works such as sound installations, analogue video works and compositions for hand-cut vinyl. This focus on the medium informs his approach to the modular synthesiser. Lorenz has received several awards for his work as a composer, including the Werkbeitrag of the Aargauer Kuratorium in 2010 and the Werkjahr für Komposition of the city of Zurich in 2016. As a percussionist, he has worked closely with composers such as Annesley Black, Antoine Chessex, Hugues Dufourt, Edu Haubensak, Bernhard Lang, Lula Romero and Alfred Zimmerlin, and has given numerous world premieres. In recent years, Lorenz has researched, reconstructed and performed the chamber music compositions of the American pop avant-gardist Arthur Russell.
As of March 2023