Leonhard Bartussek's roots lie in classical music. He studied in Graz, Cologne and at The Juilliard School in New York, was a member of the tango punk collective "Astillero" in Buenos Aires and has played as a baroque cellist on all continents and major stages around the world, such as the Philharmonie Berlin and Cologne, Carnegie Hall New York, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Barbican Center London, Théâtre des Champs-Élysée Paris, etc. Radio, CD, TV and DVD recordings for WDR, NDR, France Musique, ORF, Sony, Arte, 3Sat, Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Warner Brothers, etc. He has worked with ensembles such as Concerto Köln, the Wiener Akademie, Il Pomo D`Oro, Les Musiciens du Prince Monaco, Festspielorchester Göttingen, Harmonie Universelle and has played under conductors such as Jordi Savall, Christopher Hogwood, Ton Koopman, Nicholas McGegan, Lawrence Cummings, Masaaki Suzuki and William Christie. For some years now, he has devoted himself exclusively to developing his own music and is active at the interface with the visual arts. He develops various immersive formats as interdisciplinary performances or as sound installations that are broken up in their fixed, temporal course and can be experienced individually embedded in artistic environments. He is developing a new style of music that he calls Liquid Music. This is a kind of meta-genre that combines elements of different, often heterogeneous musical languages from different eras and cultural areas into a loose fabric. In his artistic work, Leonhard Bartussek attempts to soften the sometimes ideologically entrenched pillars of Eurocentric (post-) modernism and create new spaces for a meta-modern present. Projects conceived by him with new compositions of his Liquid Music have been performed at the Styriarte in Graz, at the Lincoln Center in New York, at the zamus festival in Cologne and most recently at the Bozar in Brussels. However, the artist considers his greatest success to be the fact that such outstanding artists of his Liquid Music Collective work with him.