Shall we leave our ancient friendship, the great 
never wooing gods, because the hard 
steel, which we strictly educated, does not know, disown them 
Or seek them suddenly on a map? 

These mighty friends that the dead take from us 
Take, nowhere touch our wheels. 
Our banquets we have far -, our baths, 
moved away, and their messengers, too slow for us for so long 

we always overtake. More lonely now on each other 
completely dependent on each other, without knowing each other, 
we no longer lead the paths as beautiful meanders.., 

but as degrees. Only in steam boilers burn the former fires 
the former fires burn and lift the hammers that are ever 
larger. But we are diminishing in strength, like swimmers. 

Rainer Maria Rilke, from: The Sonnets to Orpheus

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Sollen wir unsere uralte Freundschaft, die großen 
niemals werbenden Götter, weil sie der harte 
Stahl, den wir streng erzogen, nicht kennt, verstoßen 
oder sie plötzlich suchen auf einer Karte? 

Diese gewaltigen Freunde, die uns die Toten 
nehmen, rühren nirgends an unsere Räder. 
Unsere Gastmähler haben wir weit -, unsere Bäder, 
fortgerückt, und ihre uns lang schon zu langsamen Boten 

überholen wir immer. Einsamer nun auf einander 
ganz angewiesen, ohne einander zu kennen, 
führen wir nicht mehr die Pfade als schöne Mäander, 

sondern als Grade. Nur noch in Dampfkesseln brennen 
die einstigen Feuer und heben die Hämmer, die immer 
größern. Wir aber nehmen an Kraft ab, wie Schwimmer. 

Rainer Maria Rilke, aus: Die Sonette an Orpheus

Meander | Meandros | Mäander

When I don't have the time to actively listen to my favorite artists on soundcloud, I just leave the stream running...while washing up in the kitchen, for example 😆

By the way: this user-92853963 was my old link address and leads to the empty.... I AM NOT A ROBOT!

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A long, long time ago, there was an organ in the Christmas-decorated living room in his parents' house, where Frank grew up. Originally bought by his father for his two older siblings, they showed no interest in playing the organ. Frank, however, did. White and black keys and giving off strange sounds. 

So at the age of 9 he began to let his fingers circle on this instrument, searching for the right keys like on a typewriter. And another 9 years would pass before he could buy his first own instrument. Already at the age of 13 he made notes about the then current synthesizers, bought one magazine after the other and visited music fairs in Frankfurt, Germany.

His first keyboard was the Yamaha DSR-2000, which he bought in a music store near his hometown Biebertal. In installments! Finally he could develop himself further - away from the limited tonality of the small organ. The built-in 8-track sequencer helped him to reach unimagined heights. 
Little by little his equipment expanded and his ambition to create music like that of Jean-Michel Jarres came closer. Influenced by this and countless other musicians of the time, his interest grew, but he taught himself everything. Not even having attended a music school or being able to read music at all, he wrote one song after another and recorded them on the only medium available to him at the time: audio cassettes.
Many of these recordings are unfortunately lost forever, because cassettes are and were not the best recording medium. He has to try to play many of his songs from memory. 

In 2007, he fulfilled a long-awaited wish: to buy a KORG. He had always wanted to own one, but with the latest synthesizers at the time of their release having a purchase price of over 6000 D-marks (the currency of the time in the 1980s and 1990s), that dream of owning one was far away. So in 2007 he bought a used KORG 01W/FD at ebay. And as before with the purchase of the Yamaha keyboard, a completely new world opened up to him.

In addition, there were expanders and sound modules from Kawai, Roland and Yamaha (K1m, SC-55, QY10). Six years later his enthusiasm for making music ebbed and rediscovered his hobby (which it always was and still is). In 2018 in April he decided to present his music to a wider audience and uploaded his first song on the platform soundcloud. Since that time, thanks also to the ever-evolving software, he continues to evolve, experiment and relive his times through music.

Meander | Meandros | Mäander

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