Alfred Zimmerlin’s ample oeuvre as a composer has been performed in various countries and is available on recordings, too. He, furthermore, takes an active part in a number of projects as an improvising musician. His prime interest lies in the heterogeneity of musical genres and forms, the layers of time involved in the present, and in what can be called “cultural memory” in general. His music is the result of continuous studies of the music of highly diverse times, places, and living spaces.