Eckard Vossas

Eckard Vossas is an electronic musician and improviser based in Bonn, Germany. His approach to electronics explores the possibility of making synthetic sound behave with the flexibility and expressiveness of acoustic instruments. He uses synthesizers and touch-sensitive electronic controllers, including the Continuum Fingerboard, to shape resonant timbres in real time.

His concerts range from solo electronic performances to free-improvising groups in which electronics interacts with saxophones, piano, guitar, percussion and double bass. His collaborations include Scott Fields, Matthias Schubert, Robert Landfermann, Simon Nabatov, Philip Zoubek, Wilbert de Joode, Etienne Nillesen, Martin Blume, Achim Tang and Christian Lillinger. Projects such as Exploding Tickets and Echolot reflect his interest in spontaneous ensemble interaction and the transformation of sonic material.

Vossas appears on Creative Sources on Conference of Analogies (CS419), recorded live at LOFT in Cologne on 4 April 2014, alongside Scott Fields on guitar, Brad Henkel on trumpet and Simon Nabatov on piano. The quartet brings acoustic instruments and live electronic sound into a shared field of improvisation, with attention to changing timbres, density and musical dialogue.