December 2014

A Lost Song

What luck! I have looked through old DVDs of my former companies and on one was a video of me from 1985 (i.e. before I founded my first company), which I had made for my then employer beta-technik in Unterföhring/Munich. I was the studio manager of the graphic/effect direction there. To present the possibilities of a particularly complicated and then completely new device to the editors, I created a simple demoband with real-time effects and now it comes: I backed it up with a combination of some of my music. Here is the video, the first piece of music had been lost...

Symboter report in DieOrDiy

Platform "Die Or Diy" reports about my music on cassette "Matrix, Synchrotron and Phon-Ethik" . "Phon-Ethik" is described as (excerpt): A cassette full of beautiful analogue warmth, with quite a few decent tunes...

(2014) Music for 5 Pianos

I have decided to return to my roots and create new things from there: This song was created with sequencers, in this case with matrix sequencers of Propellerhead Reason Software. In terms of content, I was studying sequential patterns that have fascinated me since my encounter with Philip Glass and Steve Reich in my youth. (Unlike these composers, I am interested in breaks and random events after Cage as well as complex and apparently unrelated sound generators after Stockhausen) Music for 5 Pianos is designed for stage performance, 5 pianos, choir, percussion. (synthesizer or any acoustic instrument optional). Has been released by french Label...