4:28 minutes (6.6 MB) :: Download audio file

Simple Rock
Wrote this song 1993 when some friends and me used to jam weekly in the house of our female lead singer. The song was originally arranged (and also recorded at that time) as a folk style pop ballad with two or three vocal lines and a rather innocent, harmless pop instrumentation, featuring clean guitars.
In the new version, however, I wanted to spawn a bit more of darkness, although the result isn't too much hardcore.

4:03 minutes (4.6 MB) :: Download audio file

Acapella Ballad (Lead vocals, lyrics: narva9 @ ccmixter)

3:17 minutes (5.3 MB) :: Download audio file

Acapella Gospel

Lyrics: Katharina von Schlegel, 1752 (arrangement of poem 'Stille, mein Wille')
(Translation: Jane Borthwick, 1855)
Music: Jean Sibelius, 1865
Vocals: Worship Gospel Choir
Percussion: Leafcutter John (binaural drums)

Just a mixdown on-the-fly... two acapellas and one drumtrack. Nice little exercise in postprocessing (time-shifting, alot of cutting and rearranging) - had to tweak all 3 tracks to get a straight (here: 92 BPM) running beat.

4:24 minutes (6.1 MB) :: Download audio file

Ironical RockPop song about industry lobby.
Never was too much interested in politics, but a few years ago I somehow came up with the idea to write these lyrics. Well, last week I decided to make it a complete song, so here it is.
The original plan was to create an ElectroPop tune, sorta Kraftwerk style, using distorted vocals for a cool industrial touch. But then it got its own will and turned into a more rocking direction. Anyway, distorted vocals didn't seem to match the new style, and since I wanted to avoid my original voice, I quickly pitched my vocals down by 4 halftones. The result was a strange voice with black flavour... pretty wacky, I would not have recognized myself, or did you?

3:18 minutes (3.2 MB) :: Download audio file

Experimental glitch, soundscape of dying harddisks.
- Vocals by AT&T Labs virtual speech
- All sounds by failuring storage hardware from Fujitsu, Hitachi/IBM, Maxtor, Quantum, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital

Just an exercise in creating music from non-musical sources. In this case I used a bunch of clips from various harddisk failures, mainly stuttering motors and stepping head noises.
For the intro part I mixed them in their original states. In the second (lyrical) part I had to pitch them to obtain decent material for constructing melodies and chords. Of course it would have been too much work to process and insert each single note manually by editing the waveforms. Instead I created my own soundfont, based on the particular noises. This way I could execute the composing in a MIDI editor and render the notes using the soundfont.

3:38 minutes (4.5 MB) :: Download audio file

German Pop Ballad
Wrote this poem in 1985 and made it a song a few years later. Recorded it today, finally.
It's about the old story of a cool guy who falls in love with a woman, but firstly doesn't show her too much feelings. Then comes the day when he changes, getting soft and emotional; yet too late... she already adopted his tough behaviour and went away, now her is the cool one.

4:38 minutes (7.6 MB) :: Download audio file

Experimental Ethno Triphop
Mixture of modern drum'n'bass and traditional chinese instruments such as erhu, pipa, luan, guzhen and ban-di. They're mostly bowed or plugged strings, having simple yet interesting sounds. In spite of their frugal structure, Asiatic tunes have got a very profound, natural and acoustic flavour when interpreted by such instruments - which are seldom applied in other styles, eg. like triphop or jazz; nonetheless it's always worth a try.

3:56 minutes (4.6 MB) :: Download audio file

Ambient Industrial (Vocals/lyrics: Fenix)
Discovered a Fenix poem named 'doormat' on my drive the other day. Having already started with a dark electronica tune before, I thus arranged her poem (via vocoder) and integrated it into the draft, which led to a strange pop/industrial fusion. The title/picture came from my electronica wip, previously designed as a pure instrumental tune. I just didn't change the project's working title after having added Fenix.