MARKUS ZINKDRUMS / ELECTRONICS[ INDEX ]

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COMPOSITION / IMPROVISATION / PERFORMANCE
[markus::Z!\K]01 / INFO

info.

Black and white frontal portrait of Markus Zink
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MARKUS ZINK is a composer-performer working with drums and electronics across contemporary and improvised music.

He studied jazz drums at HMDK Stuttgart with Manfred Kniel, Michael Kiedaisch and Eckhard Stromer, graduating in 2013, followed by postgraduate studies at HfM Dresden with Sebastian Merk and Eric Schaefer from 2014 to 2016.

Markus Zink performing with drums, a laptop and string lights

His work ranges from composed structures to open improvisation — from drums and physical gesture to electronic systems, sound, image and space.

Alongside his own compositions and audiovisual projects, Zink works as a performer and collaborator in a wide range of contexts, including MIKIO and the Florian Vogel Trio, as well as projects connecting acoustic performance with electronics and experimental forms.

DRUMSELECTRONICSCOMPOSITIONIMPROVISATION

[markus::Z!\K]02 / MUSIC

music.

works.

COMPOSITION / AUDIOVISUAL / ARCHIVE

marker5.

english

marker5 develops an experimental music in which technology plays a central role in a double sense: materially, through electronics and processes, and at the same time socially, as a formative force of a technologised present. marker5 creates a musical imprint of the “here and now”, whose sonic material feels its way towards human reality, wrests immediacy from it, and allows new forms of expression and a further development of musical material to emerge from it.

deutsch

marker5 entwickelt eine experimentelle Musik, in der Technik in doppeltem Sinn eine zentrale Rolle spielt: materiell durch Elektronik und Prozesse, und zugleich gesellschaftlich als prägende Kraft einer technisierten Gegenwart. marker5 erzeugt einen musikalischen Abdruck des „Hier und Jetzt“, dessen Klangmaterial sich an die menschliche Realität herantastet, ihr Aktualität abringt, um daraus neue Ausdrucksformen und eine Weiterentwicklung des musikalischen Materials entstehen zu lassen.

  1. fragmente

    2 players and electronics

    in progress in the 2021/22 listing
    2021/22
  2. sqr_2ndGen

    piano solo / audiovisual

    Release planned for the end of 2026.
    2020/21
  3. computing

    drums and electronics / audiovisual

    in progress in the 2020 listing
    2020
  4. knobs&buttons

    3 instruments and loop-fx / audiovisual

    2019
    Three black and white views of string instruments and effects pedals in knobs and buttons
    KNOBS&BUTTONS / 2019
  5. L!\U5

    musicbox

    2019
  6. miniaturen (part I & II)

    strings, percussion and electronics

    2018
  7. f44.81

    string quartet, drums and electronics / rearranged in 2017

    2015 / 2017
  8. sqr

    series

    2017—
  9. prototype sqr

    string quartet

    2017
  10. rot-gruen

    drums and electronics

    2017
  11. d!al0g

    drums and electronics

    2017
  12. past in present

    ensemble and laptop-loops

    2016
    Black and white spatial setup collage for past in present, with a room plan, speaker symbols and a side view
    PAST IN PRESENT / SPATIAL SETUP
  13. robots love theme

    piano solo

    2016
  14. un1k47

    laptop solo

    2016
  15. em²4

    musicbox

    2016
  16. 0.x.x

    drums and electronics

    2016
  17. modul I

    drums and electronics

    2015
  18. ['fiːtbεk]

    miniature

    2015
  19. mr.freaky & dr.precarious

    string quintet & drums

    2014
  20. miniaturen

    piano solo

    2012—2014

collaborations.

01MIKIOCOLLABORATION
02Florian Vogel TrioCOLLABORATION
[markus::Z!\K]03 / DATES

dates.

Concerts / performances / installations

UPCOMING

Next dates
to be announced.

LIVE / 2026—2027
[markus::Z!\K]04 / NEWS

n3ws:

EP / UPCOMING

sqr EP.

Release planned for the end of 2026.

RELEASE / UPCOMING

miniaturen.

Release planned for the end of 2026.

[markus::Z!\K]05 / CONTACT

contact.

Performances / collaborations / enquiries

MARKUS ZINK