Tom Schneider

is a pianist and composer. He has released several albums, solo, as well as with his Bands KUF and LOOM & THREAD. He toured and performed extensively across Europe and East Asia. 

Tom Schneider moved the scope of the sampler as an instrument into entirely unexpected zones of expression. Sampling is integral to his work, which he applies to band interaction in multiple ways. On keys with pioneering cut-up pop band KUF he developed a key-triggered vocal style with no singers on stage at all. With trio LOOM & THREAD he devised a new wave of digital improv in which the sampler amplified the piano and engaged the acoustic musicians in some sort of multidimensional musical chess.