Michael Vorfeld / Periode

MICHAEL VORFELD
is a musician and media 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, e.g. Burkhard Beins, Mazen Kerbaj, Ute Wassermann, Reinhold Friedl, to name a few. 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“.
Since the mid-1980s, Vorfeld has been researching the interplay of light and sound, he experimented with all kinds of incandescent lamps in relation to various light-controlling devices and used many different types of microphones and pickups to „eavesdrop” into the acoustic potential of the various light events. The result of this research is „Glühlampenmusik“ (Light Bulb Music), an electro-acoustic and audio-visual performance where sounds are generated through the use of different light bulbs and actuat­ing electric devices.
First per­formed publicly in the Labor Sonor series at Kule, Berlin in Janu­ary 2005, and released in 2010, his new volume of „Glühlampenmusik“ (Karlrecords 2025) celebrates its 20th anniversary of these sonic adventures that can range from sparse abstractionism to almost “clubby” pulsations.


PERIODE
are Thomas Winkler and Andreas Reihse. Reihse is a Berlin based musician, known as founding member of Kreidler. Winkler is a Berlin based artist and musician. 
Andreas Reihse overtures and underlays Thomas Winkler's hypnotic guitar pickings with the digital grid of infinity that Winkler repeatedly tries to touch and to break through. There is hardly any singing.  
 
Periode's sixth release „Grapes of Nothingness“ is due in January 2026 on Karlrecords.