A keen drummer, he was a member and with Frank Wollny co-founder of the free jazz
group Triple Trip Touch (aka T.T.T. or TTT) and took every opportunity to play with some of the best Jazz musicians of the late 1980s including Butch Morris, Frank Wright, Billy Bang, Louis Moholo and Frank Lowe,
organising events at his country mansion in Heimbach in 1990 involving
installations by Lennie Lee, performances by Anna Homler and paintings by Christine Kuhn.