Josef Klammer

Josef Klammer, born 1958
Worked initially as a photographer, studied drums at Music University Graz

Since the mid-1980s, the musician and media musician Josef Klammer has been continuously working on the tonal expansion of his instruments and on researching and transforming the music potential inherent in the media.

• 1994: Outstanding Artist Award for music, Austrian Ministry of Art and Science
• 2003: Elektronic Award of the ELAK Vienna and Musikforum Viktring for the “Klammer&Gruendler Duo“
• 2015 Award of Distiction / Prix Ars Electronica
• Exhibitions, sound installations; music for TV and movies; radio plays and radio programs for the ORF; stage music for theatres in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Schwerin, Gera, Ljubljana, Klagenfurt, Linz and Graz and Wiener Festwochen
• Artist in Residence at ZKM Karlsruhe and IEM / KUG
• Numerous concerts and recordings with a wide variety of ensembles playing New Improvised Electronic and Experimental Music
• Jury for Prix Ars Electronica and the Styrian Cultural Initiativ
• Curator for diverse festivals and initiatives