Philipp Wachsmann

Philipp Wachsmann is a violinist, composer and pioneer of electronic and electroacoustic improvisation in Britain. His experience of twentieth-century composition, including the music of Cage, Cardew and Feldman, shaped an approach in which conventional violin playing meets signal processing, amplification and unexpected acoustic detail.

From the late 1960s he worked with the Yggdrasil Quartet and later became closely associated with the British free-improvisation scene. Collaborators include Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Tony Oxley, Paul Lytton and Barry Guy. Contact microphones, live electronics and self-devised extensions of violin sound have been important features of a long career spanning chamber music, solo improvisation and large ensembles.

On Creative Sources, Philipp Wachsmann is credited on Berlin Kinesis (CS313).