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.
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, Prophet 12 and NI Reactor
Finally "finished", where of course the song would have to be mixed, but a professional has to do that, I'm not yet fit in Ableton enough to trust me. 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.
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 since then. Now I have isolated it and included it in the archive:
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.… Honest electronic musik before it was turned into the ultimate W.M.D (weapon of mass distraction). Also, the best Symboter cassette.
“Synchrotron” is qualified as (excerpt): More Tangerine Dream/Kraftwerk/soundtrack library music hybrid from Symboter. Crammed full of top of the range analogue beauty, from a treasure trove of classic synthesizers in Symboter HQ;… Lovely stuff.
“Matrix” remarks are (excerpt): The vocoder use is especially pleasing, new Generation, being a prime example of who to subtly use this classic device. Fans of anything on Colin Potter’s Integrated Circuit Records will love this.
Here is the link to the report
