Jan Zimmermann started making electronic music during the mid-nineties while experimenting with scrapyard electronic gadgets and the at the time freshly released A-100 Modular Stuff. As one half of the duo Groovekombinat, he played numerous illegeal raves and parties before he moved to Cologne in 1998 where his musical focus shifted towards electro-acoustic music and the development of self-build instruments. After relocating to Berlin in 2000 and some studies at the electro-acoustic studio of the Hans Eisler School, using vinyl records and spinning objects as performative instruments in his interest led him towards an unique notion of vinyl-cutting as a musical process itself. He bought his first vinyl cutting machine from a museum in Chicago and set up his experimental studio  in East-Berlin, which became a professional and well received service over the years. Since he has produced several projects that revolve arround spontaneous and improvised liverecording sessions outputting unique self-cut vinyl records. These projects realized in his studio as well as using a mobile studio environment , set up  during festivals like CTM, Berlin/ MUTEC, Montreal /TODAYS ART, De Haag/ GARAGE, Stralsund / Placard , Paris are based on short-time collaborations with numerous musicians and artists. Past collaborators include: Françisco Lopez, Philipp Sherburne, Goodiepal, Otto von Schirach, Patrick Catani, Per Bucci, Derek Holzer, Staalplaat Soundsystem, FM3, Thilges3 Vromb, Erik Minkinnen and others.
Recently,  radio has become an important medium for his conceptional works as well.  Since 2006  he performed numerous live on air sessions.  All radio works follow the same principle: the medium generates its own content in a self-modulating feedback system.  In his most recent work the 2009 radio art projekt "feed forward", a collaboration with Michael Fischer from Vienna,  the two artists perform  with live-feedback generation between Berlin and Vienna/Amsterdam using fm-transmission and telephone-lines.  Besides,  he is performing live electronics as solo performer as well as with several group projects.  Since 2009 he is attending the postgraduate programme Sound Studies at the UdK Berlin.  Also since 2009 he is a founding member  of f.a.c.t.s, an organization for the mediation and production of art, together  with the Berlin based Austrian media artist and activist Wolfgang Kemptner.
 
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