lives in Essen and Berlin. Karl-Heinz Blomann is a musician, composer, alto saxophonist, and producer of new and experimental music, film, and radio art. He studied pedagogy in Dortmund, music in Duisburg, and theater, film, and television studies in Bochum. Since the 1980s, he has been developing artistic concepts at the intersection of sound, technology, and urban living spaces.

In 1983, he founded the music publishing company “AufRuhr Records” and toured internationally throughout Europe and South America with the avant-garde band Pöhl Musik, supported by the Goethe-Institut. In 1989, he made guest appearances at the Next Wave Festival in New York, among other venues.

Blomann has realized numerous sound art, radio play, and film music productions for ZDF, arte, and WDR, among others, and received the DGB Culture Prize for his sound sculptures. His projects include “FlussKlang:RiverSound” in 2008 and 2010, “Reflect Your Future” for WDR 3 in 2018, “Wald und Klang” in 2021, and “cycle and recycle” in 2023, as well as compositions and performances as part of the BLAUES RAUSCHEN festival, where he has been artistic director since 2017, most recently with collaborations in the field of AI-based sound research and audiovisual media.

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