Some day in the late 1970ies I joined this weird family. - As I mentioned before: I´m a storyteller. I tell musical stories. Here you may find out, how that came to be and what I mean by saying "I´m telling musical stories."

Very early in my teens I had close encounter with music, became a guitarplayer in a garageband. We called ourselves "Grease" and covered some catchy commercial songs. But I was attracted by the music of Pink Floyd (Meddle!) - so I was more on the so-called psychedelic wing, rather than motivated to play in a dance band. My style of playing the guitar was ostinate, and some already called me to be the sequencer of this band. The one and only selfcomposed piece was titled "peoples song", consisted of exactly two chords and had a playtime of 20 to 40 minutes - depending on circumstances. Every Minute was drifting and swirling to an extreme. - From the first time I listened to electronic music I was open for new worlds of sound. Audible adventures in outer space. - I´m still telling storys about space quests and adventure ever since. Science. Robots. Spacecrafts. Aliens.

In the beginning there was a birthday party. There I heard that magic music for the first time, which enduces those fantastic imaginary trips ... these were the albums Irrlicht and Timewind by Klaus Schulze.

From that very moment I was addicted: I wanted to hear things like that on and on and on ... and I wanted to know, what it was made of, this exciting Music. I started to be interested in those exotic and totally alien Instruments, called Synthesizer and Vocoder and Sequencer.

Very soon there was a close encounter of the third kind with a real synthesizer. I think it was a Crumar Compac. For the first time I was able to touch such an enigmatic thing. I could fumble and play with it ... and after a few "Filtersweeps" I was infected by the electronic germ. At this first contact I realized all of a sudden, that beside the huge modular synthesizer systems of those days there was a range of instruments that had a more reasonable size, and therefore a much more reasonable price than for example a Moog-System 55. Such a huge modular system was worth the value of a small homestead. And the smaller versions where a real snip, and only cost the price of a fancy car.

Electronic Music is different. Today the term "electronic music" is occupied by the most distinct music, whenever it uses electroacoustic or electronic instruments. So the primordial meaning of that term is almost forgotten.

EM is put equal to the popular styles like "Berlin School" around the artists Klaus Schulze and the German formation Tangerine Dream. And - may be - to one or the other it is connected to Kraftwerk and their unique sound. Or it is equated to meditative Music, New Age … Synthpop also and the wide range of technomusic with all its individual descendands. Electronic Music in it´s primordial meaning however

- distinguishes itself from music being produced with mechanical instruments
- is emphasizing sound above structure and form
- is annihilating european and noneuropean scales of tones and intervals

My music, the form of music you can explore on these pages - is a hybrid form in this respect as well: for the most part you will find european scales of tone, you will find the "4 to the floor". And you will find bits of sound, sounding like real instruments, like piano or harpsichord. Anyhow: all these sounds are generated electronically, except a guitar-riff here and there maybe. Many of my compositions have a structure, they develop whilst they are changing speed and key. And they include elements of the "classical electronic music" as mentioned above, where sound is above things like structrue, melody, beat or tonal orientation.

Before there was some music to be called electronic there was a lot of bands who where electric. - One of them, I would like to mention are The Doors. Their Songs Riders On The Storm, and The End where may be the first songs I ever heard , that put me to a kind of trance while listening to them. I remember a cracling vinyl-player, repeating the Riders again and again. Somehow this song was - in my case - the one to give the impulse to loop-based music.

So in the early days of popular electronic music there was only a small number of artists doing that really pure electronic thing. There was Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream of course, and Kraftwerk … Michael Rother … They were - as for many musicians of my generation - the trailblazers.

In spite of all these unique artists - each of them an individual - I would like to claim that the furthest roots influencing me and my development where - besides by The Doors - woven by Florian Fricke and his experimental and in large part spiritual band Popol Vuh and - of course during all the time - by Pink Floyd´s Meddle, Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Where Here.
 

Although my own music is quite different from Popol Vuh. To label his music as "electronic" would not hit the mark. Popol Vuh stood for a extremley enthralling and creative melange from electronic elements, socalled "worldmusic" and spiritual, meditative influences.

Unfortunately Florian Fricke died in 2001, and therefore Popol Vuh came to an end as well. My favourite: Höre der du wagst and the track Brüder des Schattens from the album and soundtrack of "Nosferatu".

Another important influence is to say Manuel Göttsching with Ashra. The Albums Correlations and Blackouts belong to my all-time-favourites. Klaus Schulze again, his Master-Piece-Album "X". - This list is quite long already, but it still has not come to an end.

Electronic music has developed over the years … the number of variants and variations is almost uncountable. Depeche Mode and others who created Synth-Pop or Synth-Rock … Taucher … ATB ... influences from the dancefloor and vice versa. And the list of electronic artists is getting longer and longer daily. Everything influences everything. Everyone enriches everyone.

During the late 80s there was a long lasting creative break. All my instruments were sold. (Except one single old Jupiter 6 - Analogue synthesizer).

This creative break kept on going until the late 90s. The silent decade, so to speak. After many years of silence I picked my last remaining analogue-synthesizer up from the basement to fumble a little. Addiction got me on the spot again, and I decided to invest in some equipment again. In comparison to the time when I started first, the prices of Synthequipment have come down to a very reasonable level; Well there still is the potential give to spend a fortune in Synth- and Studiogear. But nowadays one can get a quite nice set of Instruments without pledgeing his homestead. - In the end you see ... as a consequence of that very moment when I went downstairs and put my last synth to the electric socket, you can visit this website now and find out what it´s all about. The music you can access here was created after the great break. Unfortunately from the time before only a few tape reels remain which I cannot mix again, because I don't have a tape machine available. May be one day I´ll get back to them and find a way to digitalze those.