Zam Johnson
Nationality: USA
Address: Berlin - Germany
Websites:
www.zamjohnson.com
www.myspace.com/zamjohnson
www.youtube.com/zamjohnson
Zam Johnson born and raised in los angeles, california, zam has
worked in the record industry, countless television commercials, film
scores, and the avantgard music scene, in the United States, Europe and
Japan.
during his high school time he began his career as a drummer, working
in the los angeles club and studio scene.
in the early eighties he began promoting his synthesizer work,
composing music for avantgarde film and dance, he teamed with painter
norton wisdom, and formed the science and industry performance art
group .. they toured the usa and europe. it was a big multi media event.
since 1988 zam is based in berlin, working as a composer for theatre,
dance and film. he is very much involved in the theatre, dance, studio,
concerts and the avantgarde music scene. his skills in performing
electronic effects and sound scores make him one of the most demanded
artist. zam is a master of performing all styles of acoustic and
electronic drumming and percussion.
from 1989 he has been a steady member of 'tatoeba-Théâtre
Danse Grotesque', and is their main composer. 1993 he composed the
music for
the butoh film 'ju ni hitoe' or 'the twelve kimonos'. this film had its
premier at the berlin film festival berlinale.
in march 1994 zam got an invitation and stipendium from the
goethe-institut in tokio, japan to compose and perform live the music
for ,'rabenstein - the collector' for 'tatoeba theatre danse grotesque'.
1995 he founded 'ten pen chii art factory' with sculptor joachim manger
and the butoh dancer yumiko yoshioka.
the metal sculptures which are designed by joachim can also be played
as a music instrument by zam.
in October 1996 they performed 'n-yoin', a big multi-media performance
with 6 dancers and a 4.5 meter big metal sculpture, made out of 10.000
pipes. all of the music was also captured on zam's first solo cd
'n-yoin'.
Recently i work with Ulli Lenz the jazz pianist
and Paul Swing the great tombone & keyboardplayer
Between artgalleries,shows and musicfestivals i find the time to
to paint - this is my best way to relax.
