Biography
The integration of music, visual forms, and language in diverse forms of realizations is the core of Klaus Damm’s artistic work. The sound&image-artist, born near Colgone in 1949, has used computers as a tool for his art since 1978.
Klaus Damm‘s artistic work commenced in 1972, predominantly with visual and lyrical works – in parallel to his studies of musicology and German language and literature. At the Folkwang University for Music, Theater and Dance, Klaus Damm received his education in composition. In 1978 he was awarded the Folkwang Award (”Folkwangpreis“) as the first composer in the history of this award.
Due to his critical position toward the avantgarde scene Klaus Damm has followed the trends of the contemporary art and music market predominantly from a distance since 1985.
In 2003 Klaus Damm reactivated his composition work, and since 2007 he has found an independent, condensed sound and image language. Unaffected by the demands of cultural market trends, he developed his interdisciplinary concept “visible music”, with which he reintroduces himself to the public as composer and artist in 2010 with the sound-image-composition "im lied des phoenix" ("in the singing of phoenix") as video-projection in the "Kaiserdom" ("Emperor Cathedral") during the "Luminale 2010" festival at Frankfurt/Main (Germany).
