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ZWERM is an electric guitar quartet, with musicians from Belgium and The Netherlands. Matthias Koole, Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelissen & Toon Callier. The starting point is their common interest for new music: composed, improvised, experimental and performative, high and low culture. The awareness of the similarities between these different elements and the challenge of presenting them in a meaningful way is very important. In the twentieth century the electric guitar has proved to be the instrument of low culture and underground music. Nevertheless, it has found its way to composed music only very recently. The gap between low culture/improvised music and contemporary/composed music is still big. In this context we want ZWERM to be a group that is able to work in both directions. A group which links things, uses/abuses traditions and navigates between the many styles, conceptions and stages which are representative for the music today.