Simon Berz is a drummer, sound artist, director of the Badabum music school born on 26 January 1967, Baden (CH). His work in experimental and improvised music, in sound art and new forms of performance aims at innovation, interaction and participation. Simon Berz is a drummer and sound artist. He uses improvised music to create bridges between his compositions and performances to visual arts, dance and film. His work takes place in artist-run spaces as well as in clubs, galleries and concert halls.

Simon Berz works together with instrument builders, technicians and scientists to design sound installations focussing on phenomena like resonance and feedback. How do you interact with ice, water, stone, air, wind and fire? What happens in the space between people? What is resonance in technical as well as in psychological and energy terms? The sound artist explores ways of making it possible to experience human energy fields or to allow the resonance produced by a self-playing stone to sound.

Since 2009 Simon Berz has had a special relationship to New Orleans, the city where his Liquid Land project came into being, a continuation of the 10x10=>11 sound art project. The project led to a documentary and the Liquid Land CD, which were presented on a tour through the U.S. and in Switzerland. Currently, Liquid Land is being continued with a new record in collaboration with Rob Cambre and Moose Jackson, who improvises lyrical moments with spoken words stemming from current situations. Drummer and electronic artist Simon Berz has toured through Japan, China, Russia, the U.S., Cuba, Iceland, Turkey and Europe, both as a solo artist and together with other musicians and groups.