Adam Goodwin

Adam Goodwin (b. 1986) is a composer, musician and multi-media artist raised in the swamps of southeast Texas and fermented in the dreary forests of northeastern Germany. He has spent a great deal of time traveling, backpacking and making music throughout the deserts of the southwestern United States, as well as the Appalachians and various parts of Europe, the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia. Steeped in the world of classical and contemporary double bass performance, his artistic output has expanded across a multitude of musical and aesthetic dimensions, tending towards extremes of silence and cacophony, harmony and dissonance, repetition and chaos. His work is closely connected with and influenced by the natural world, and he engages in regular tours and solitary retreats in which he reflects, creates and explores in the midst of whatever wilderness he can find along the way. His compositions often include graphic notation, text instructions and conceptual ideas intertwined with a more traditional approach to musical notation. He is active as an interpreter of contemporary music as a soloist as well as an active member of many different bands and ensembles spanning a wide array of genres, including the Havoc Quartet, Elmer Kussiac, Ensemble New Babylon, Murmur Collective, Circuit Training Ensemble, Nawa Ensemble and more.