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New song "Phased Music for 32 Instruments"

23. November 2015

For a long, long time I wanted to develop a piece of music about Steve Reich's phase shift principle. To achieve this I wrote a MAX 7 for Live application (starting from the great Maxpatch by Akihiko Matsumoto), which in Ableton Live generates a musical phrase from 12 tones as a continuous loop and a second, identical phrase initially time-synchronous, delay each repetition. As a result, the second phrase shifts continuously to the first and interesting rythmic structures emerge as well as by overlaying the phrases also constantly other melody histories. A phrase shift to the next sound takes about 24 seconds. The instruments play the...

New song "Q-Chord"

13. July 2015

This is a track dedicated to the Omnichord Music Instrument by Suzuki. I did use the Q-Chord, which was manufactured in 2001 to supply all data via Midi to a Prophet12. The idea of this song is to bridge the time between the Q-Chord and the Prophet12. No data was changed in any way, the song is generated by the Q-Chord which you can hear with its original voices in the beginning and a bit at the very end. The Midi stream has been devided into various channels and voices, many voices are then Prophet12 sound multilayered.I hope you got...

New song "FAREWELL"

3. June 2015

This is a song dedicated to Edgar Froese, founding member of Tangerine Dream, who died recently. The song is multitrack sequenced a lot, instruments used are mainly Prophet 12 and NI Reactor for the pads and sequences, Korg Karma for the leads, Ableton Studio DAW for the mix and drums. The song elements refer a bit to TD, Jarre and Schulze. https://youtu.be/ICavRiABizQ ...

New song "Hang"

7. April 2015

The second song this year is now ready. "Hang".The title refers to the instrument Hang, which is produced in small series and handicraft.It's a kind of upside-down steeldrum to play with your fingers. I did it about a year ago. discovered a year and am fascinated by the sound spectrum. I was all the happier when I discovered a soundpack for Ableton with sampled sounds of the slope. I developed a piece of about 10 minutes, which was created in Ableton Studio, with sampled slope and wind instruments, as well as pads and sounds from Korg Karma, Dave Smith Prophet 12 and NI Reaktor ...

New song "EO"

12. February 2015

Finally "finished", this song would have to be master mixed by a professional, I'm not yet good enough to do that. Maybe here in Berlin I find capable and willing Ableton professionals to help me. For this song I also created a visual in After Effects. ...

A Lost Song

13. December 2014

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

24. June 2014

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...

Vinyl on demand releases Symboter LP

5. June 2013

The Symboter LP on vinyl is here! Early works of the early 80's:https://www.vinyl-on-demand.com/-1-18-403.htm The tapes from 1980-1982 contained songs I had recorded from 1978-1981, many of them live due to lack of multitrack recording equipment or because too complicated, then on 4-track tape devices and finally a few pieces in a 24 track studio, which I did a few nights allowed to use it. The original master tapes have disappeared over time, there are only a few cassettes from that time. Vinyl on demand has, amazingly, a complete set of "blue" studio cassettes. At the time there was an "orange" series, which...

Film "Turbulence" can now be seen in exhibition in Osnabrück

23. September 2012

The exhibition "Turbulence" with works by Wolfgang Petrick was shown in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche Osnabrück from 22.09.2012. The central, 6 meter high ship object was accompanied by a video installation, directed by Wolfgang Petrick and enginered by Frédérik Krauke. The music for the film came from me and was composed and recorded in August and September 2012. It uses mainly field recordings and sound samples of deep sea exploration, underwater bubbling, submarine steel noises, enriched with cracking and glass cracking and crushing. In addition to complex overwater and underwater sound collages, there a main central part in the music consisting of a...

A record contract

2. August 2011

After such a long time I signed a record contract again today. No, not for a solo CD, but for a remix of my piece "Crime" from the early 80s. The French group "Spaceships Are Cool" has taken the title and processed it in a contemporary way. The result is a song worth listening to on a more listenable CD called " SERIOUSLY, ERIC? Vol. 3" It will be released in September. The old version of Crime can still be heard on last.fm More will come as soon as I know something more precise. ...

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