Ignaz Schick is a German improvisation musician, sound artist, and composer born in 1972 in Trostberg. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where he served as an assistant to Josef Anton Riedl. Initially a saxophonist in jazz and avant-rock groups, Schick later focused on turntables and multi-track tape experiments. In 2000, he developed the Rotating Surfaces, an electroacoustic instrumentarium involving the vibration of objects on turntable platters. Schick moved to Berlin in 1995 and became a figure in the "Echtzeitmusik" scene. He was a founding member of ensembles such as Perlonex, ILOG, and Phosphor, and established the workshop ensemble Circuit Training in 2013. His recording career included the debut petit pale (2001) and later releases such as Altered Alchemy (2021) and The Cliffhanger Session (2024). Schick collaborated with artists including Chris Abrahams and Alexei Borisov, performing on tours across Europe, North America, and Russia. He received the Musikstipendium der Stadt München in 1994 and several Berlin Senate grants for sound art.
