PONK IS A MUSICIAN, MUSIC PRODUCER AND MUSICOLOGIST FROM BERLIN, WHOSE SOPHISTICATED SONGS AND TRACKS TRAVEL BETWEEN MINIMAL AND WEIRD STRUCTURES, THE LOVE FOR EXPERIMENTS AND AVANTGARDE MUSIC, SAMPLING, GUITARS AND BEATS IN NO SPECIFIC ORDER AND WITHOUT THE COMMITMENT TO A CERTAIN SYLISTIC DIRECTION.

PONKS BIOGRAPHY IS SHAPED BY AN EXCEPTIONALLY WIDE RANGE OF MUSICAL ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS. HE STARTED MAKING MUSIC WITH A BACKGROUND IN HARDCORE, INDIE AND HIP HOP MUSIC. BETWEEN 1995–2000 HE SANG IN LIN., A BERLIN ARTCORE BAND THAT RELEASED A SUCCESFUL ALBUM AND A 7", TOURED GERMANY WITH COLLEAGUES TREADMILL AND SHARED THE STAGE WITH MISCELLANEOUS WONDERFUL U.S. BANDS LIKE HOT WATER MUSIC AND THE GET UP KIDS. AS A MEMBER OF KID PIX HE ALSO PRODUCED AND PERFORMED ELECTRONICAL MUSIC.

SOMETIME BEFORE 2000, AFTER HAVING DISCOVERED THE BEAUTY OF 20TH CENTURY SO CALLED »ART« MUSIC (I.E. WEBERN, LIGETI, FELDMAN) PONK DECIDED TO STUDY MUSICOLOGY. AS A CONSEQUENCE HE IS WORKING AS A RESEARCHER AND LECTURER AT A GERMAN UNIVERSITY. IN 2003 HE CO-FOUNDED THE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC NETWORK »WRITTEN NOT WRITTEN«.