A theme that came to me playing on my guitar. It took me some time to find out that the meter of this piece is in 11/8. Continue reading
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Why do you make music?
You’re busy for years to do something without knowing why. For instance playing music. Continue reading
calendar for “SSB” public transport in Stuttgart
The last calendar I made for the “Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG”. Continue reading
per gynt goes africa
An adaption of E. Grieg’s famous piece “in the hall of the mountain king” from the Peer Gynt Suite. Continue reading
random graphics
„wo der Zufall abnimmt nimmt der Abfall zu“ (Sigward Sprotte)
Its playing with words an impossible to translate. A try: “while chance (in the meaning of randomness) decreases junk increases”
Vienna 2011
A huge pile of art in high quality. Klimt and Schieles at different places, couldn’t see all of them because they were at too many places. An impressing exhibition of photorealistic art; Chuck Close, Richard Estes … in the museum of modern art.
Vienna doesn’t seem to be a healthy place for musicians. All of them had already died; Beethoven, Mahler, Schubert, J. Strauß, Bruckner… One living musician sat on a bridge on a cold day in february an played “besame mucho” on his accordion. He already looked pretty sick.
Some photos.
Oosterend
A piece in 7/4 time. The melody appeared while playing on the guitar in the village Oosterend on the dutch island Terschelling.
The bright version
the dark version
backporch stringband
The Backporch Stringband has been playing for about 25 years. We were averted by the Dragseth Duo to join them on their CD “songs from the porch”. We had a great time with lots of music and we recorded not only one but 2 CDs. CDs are still available in Husum (Germany) at Atelier Knortz.
Hasselblad 500c
Hommage à Victor Hasselblad who constructed a great camera that even sounds good. Here is a little piece of music with sounds only from a 500 c Hasselblad (late nineteenfifties)
the djembe font
Notate simply by typing on your keyboard. Continue reading