Christian Windfeld

Christian Windfeld (born in 1983) is a Danish percussionist, composer and improviser educated as a soloist at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. Performing internationally since his late teens, he has lived in Stockholm, New York and Berlin, and developed a highly personal approach to the physical and acoustic properties of percussion. His performances often concentrate on a radically reduced setup, sometimes a single snare drum, to investigate resonance, friction, gesture and unexpected sound.

Alongside numerous international collaborations, Windfeld has developed solo work under the name FØRSTEPERSONENTAL, with recordings including Rotunda (2016). He has performed with saxophonist and clarinettist Liudas Mockūnas, appeared in the trio Flamingo with Chris Heenan and Adam Pultz Melbye, and created sound installations and projects with visual artists and writers. His artistic research Lykkebækken explores how listeners can actively choose combinations of camera and microphone perspectives in an audiovisual performance, extending ideas about musical authorship and listening.

On Creative Sources, Windfeld plays drums in Ellipsis with pianist Andy Butler and bassist Jon Heilbron on Bulawayo (CS407). The trio was formed while its members were living in Berlin, and their music relies on listening, sustained resonance and the gradual shaping of freely improvised structures. Windfeld's percussion complements the piano and bass, moving between precise gestures, subtle noises and collective development.