An adventure begins with a farewell
My new album Minor has been released on December 24th 2021. I have been working on this for one whole year. Each track is dedicated to one month, hence 12 tracks in total. I hope you like it. Check it out here
A new CD is out. It is about a young boy who left his home to become an adult. After seven years of pain and joy he comes back. This CD is about some variations of this german children song. Have fun! You can listen to the new album here
My new album is a collection of music I made during the “Covid-Year” in 2020. Each piece deals with a particular event, or a particular thought that was important to me at that time. This is what makes it also a collection of completely different styles and soundsEven though for most people the year 2020 was probably marked by the continuous topic of a pandemic, for me, even without COVID-19, the year was not one that I would count among Continue reading New Album “Klangfarbe”
I tried to make a CD of relaxing music that should not be sad. Its not happy either. Instead I find it is rather intimate, reflective but calm and sensible. But you judge me.
Listen to a little sneak preview here
For almost 2 years I did not publish any new music. For some reason I did not feel to record anything I’ve played. I also bought a new e-piano during this time, the Kawai VPC-1. One that I had always hoped to own one day. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I had to get familiar with the new claviature. In the past months I had some ideas and started recording again. One can clearly say Continue reading New music available
You might have noticed that C major and A natural minor scale sharing the same keys. The difference is only noticeable because the referenced root key is different. This is also known as modes. Major and minor are probably the most popular modes, but there is more to it. Of course C major and C minor are two different modes of the same root key, where C major and A minor are two different modes with different root keys, but Continue reading What is a mode?
I haven’t done recordings for a while due to lack of time, ideas and the possibility to have a proper recording environment. But things are changing.
Happy birthday my friend! Here is a song for you. Fifty is the new twenty, you just have to believe that you never get older, you just get more wrinkles!
When reading apple documents about universal links everything looks just straight-forward. However, I stumbled over some issues that were easy to solve, but difficult to find out.
Here is a small script to to batch rename file extensions. for image in *.jpg; do imageBase=”`echo $image | awk -F’.’ ‘{ print $1 }’`”; mv $image $imageBase.png; done