Achim Tang Viennese musican, bass player, sonic research. Born in Berlin, studied in Graz, lives in Cologne Jazz? World Music? Improvisation? Improvisation! border-crossing contacts in all keys, interstellar journeys through the audible universe; and in the centre: music. Born 1958 Photo (by Rainer Rygalik) Photo (by Martin Mauerböck) Played double bass since 1984. Achim Tang studied classical Music in Basel and Berlin, in 1987 he moved to Austria to study at the jazz department of the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz. Graduated from there 1992. Inspired by the meeting with Glen Moore in the late 1980's, Achim Tang started to experiment with different tunings on the double bass. In the following years he developed an asymetric tuning, mixing fifths and fourths which strongly influences his style of playing. After moving to Vienna in 1993 he quickly becomes one of Austria's most wanted bass players. He successfully works with jazz musicians as well as with contemporary composers, DJs, world musicians or dancers. „Achim Tang is one of the players, for whom stylistic borders simply don't exist“ writes Renald Deppe on the occasion of a concert at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten in 1996. This openness along with his strong, personal sound is a mayor part of Achim Tangs music. Teaching: • at the Landeskonservatorium Klagenfurt (1991 und 92) and at the Musikschule in Puchenau/Oberösterreich (1995 und 96) • 1997 until 2002 as a part of the project Klangnetze-new music in schools-in Vienna runs his own project Klanglabor since 2006 in two schools in cologne, in collaboration with the Rheinische Musikschule. Compositions (selection): • Music for the theater productions "Jedermann" (1992), "Titus Andronicus" (1993) and "Faust 2" (1994) in Graz, • "The Land Of Milk And Honey" (1995) in Vienna. • Music for the dance performances "Body Poems" by Akemi Takeya, "Khalon for four women" and "Salle d´Attentes" by Loulou Omer • Music for the film "Donau" by Goran Rebic • Music for the dance performance "# 5" by Ilona Paszthy (2005) • "Cyber Cages" Compositions with video animation for children (2007) Member of the musicians label WINDHUNDRECORDS.COM in Vienna Co Founder of the musicians initiative ZAM e.V. in Cologne Artistic director of the Grabenfesttage in Vienna 2005 until 2007 Collaboration with Marc Ducret, Stoyan Yankulov, WolfgangPuschnig, Joachim Kühn, Linda Sharrock, Patrice Heral, Guy Klusevcek, Anatoly Vapirov, Jay Clayton, Deepak Ram, Max Nagl, Dominik Piffarelly, David Tronzo, Franz Hautzinger, Thomas Lehn, Shivan Perwer and many others.