Hans-Jürgen Kanty opens up a world of impressions from the very boundaries of music's limits using his body, his voice and by the use of original instruments. His music, both composed and improvised, is mostly part of a greater narrative context and combines rhythmic-percussive and vocal passages with independent sound collages. Hans-Jürgen Kanty, born on the 9th of August 1964 in Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, has been a professional percussionist since 1986. Work in the theatre as a composer and/or musician and actor at Jugendtheater Dortmund; Schloßtheater Moers; WLT Castrop-Rauxel; Musiktheater Gelsenkirchen; Mimentheater Caprice, Freiburg; Petöfi Theater, Veszprem, Ungarn; Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf; Prinz-Regent-Theater, Bochum and many other projects. Music projects: "Gesprächskonzerte" (putting prose and poetry into music, duo with the actor Rupert Seidel); "Vom Verlassen des Weges" (Leaving the Way: a composition for drums, tape recorder and dancer based on a picture by M. Schubert. Performances: at the world exhibition Expo '92 in Sevilla; with LoftExil at the 24th New Jazz Festival in Moers; Solo-Project SangSchlag at home and abroad; Chamber opera "The Enormous Room" by E. Koltermann/E.E. Cummings at the Music Festival "Open Systems '97" and performances at the "Mittelfest '97" in Cividale, Italy. In addition, co-operation with the following ensembles: WOK (Werni-Ohlmeier-Kanty), DASTET (Hagen-Djember-Schückens-Kanty); Works for prepared piano and drum set with the Japanese pianist Mutsumi Suzuki; Collage 8, directed by E. Koltermann; musical comedy with TrioInfernal-Die Gute Band and many other projects.