What is outside? Is it what appears to the eye, or might there be something hidden? Could it be there is not only particles surrounding you? Could it be there is actually a whole world of other creatures and places just at the same spot you are standing right now? No. This can’t be. Can it?
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End of Cycle is a bold approach fusing rich synth textures with heavy weight percussive elements. Each and every sound was created by hand within a complex analog modular setup and all patterns were programmed and performed with a hardware sequencer – all done with love and passion for sophisticated contemporary electronic music. 
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King Ping (snippet)

Triptychon is a unique and colossal piece. The name derives from a painting that consists of three pieces, mostly used in religious context. The trisection of the piece is based not only on its three titles „Offenbarung“ (i.e. revelation), „Mutualismus“ (i.e. mutualism) and „Utopie“ (i.e. utopia), but on the musical side on three completely different modular synthesizers the music was performed with. 
Triptychon is the most personal work so far from sound designer Thomas Burkhardt (aka LIN/LOG). The word „trip“ must be highlighted in order to fully engage with the sound concept. Thomas wrote enigmatic poems and phrases and mixed them up with abstract and very complex patches. To be exact over 150 unique patches were recorded for Triptychon.
The audience enters a world that has been taken over by algorithms. The speaker introduces in short many theoretical events, which are then described in detail only by sound. That is, because the true meanings cannot be communicated by words, but by music. Finally it must be questioned if man is truly willing to accept the future he is facing. Thomas opens a door to a world that is unheard so far, but still feels uncomfortably real – a contemporary gem.

Offenbarung

Live modular improvisation @ Strom Wandlung Schall 2 (June 10th 2023) with my modular setup "Solveig".

Many thanks and best wishes to:
ZeM (@zem-ev)
Andreas Budin (@banalytic)
Franz Martin Löhle (@user-631498133)
Joachim Stange-Elbe & Doris Elbe
Thomas Breuer (@vactrolog)

live @ Strom Wandlung Schall 2

Intertwined paths leading to nowhere. Doors behind doors. A conceptual paradoxon. Everything is correct when incorrect. Ultraform is a hybrid analog digital cortex contriving the wildest dreams. Everything is connected to everything. Literally. Each piece was performed and recorded in one take.

Ultraform contains 11 tracks.

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LIN/LOG - Ultraform (Album Preview)

Oktant is a collection of 64 handmade modular pieces, which were performed 2013 – 2014. It’s an vanguard work using the nature of empiricism to form and deform sound from simple waveforms to indescribable noise. It’s complexity is a result of organic, evolving rhythm structures combined with true analog modular sound designs.

Over 2 hours of modular madness.

Including all 8 sub-albums:
Plus Plus Plus
Minus Plus Plus
Minus Minus Plus
Plus Minus Plus
Plus Plus Minus
Minus Plus Minus
Minus Minus Minus
Plus Minus Minus


OKTANT (a collection of 64 modular works)

Artefakt is a profound trip into the realm of digital analysis and corruption. Eight tracks take you deep into the rabbit hole of cybernetics. All pieces were performed using a hybrid modular system to create a sonic world of data being written and modified over and over again.

Maschine (Preview)

Joss Turnbull & Thomas Burkhardt performing a vanguard piece. This is a live improvisation. Joss is playing the Tombak, Sampler and many noise/sound tools. Thomas is playing the Eurorack modular system.

Video of the 2nd part

Turnbull & LIN/LOG live @ 12 Stufen Theater

Live modular improvisation @ Strom Wandlung Schall 3 (June 1st 2024) with my hybrid modular setup.

Many thanks and best wishes to:
ZeM (@zem-ev)
Andreas Budin (@banalytic)
Franz Martin Löhle (@user-631498133)
Thomas Breuer (@vactrolog)

live @ Strom Wandlung Schall 3

This is a live improvisation I have performed for the closing event of Group V's exhibition at the defiled church in Hausen. The exhibition was about AI in contemporary art. Therefore I used my hybrid modular system to create a vibrant sound design focussed on pure analog signals colliding with digital signals. I wanted to force both sonic worlds to compete against each other, fighting about the dominance who is controlling whom.

live @ Finissage Group V

The ICO Obernburg is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Therefore a lot of great artists were showing photos, sculptures, paintings. But there was music too and so I had the chance to create half an installation and half a performance the whole day long in a beautiful old working space. I was deeply focussing on working with the ambience of the room itself but also with the visitors coming and leaving. There are 17 takes I have recorded to show how my work has evolved over time.
The photo was taken by Isabella Burkhardt: www.instagram.com/ib_photographie_de/

live at ICO 100 (03:25 p.m.)

live at ICO 100 (03:34 p.m.)

A self patch with my modular system about a mental disorder, where a person pretends to have a sickness to draw attention to themselves.
Check out the video here: http://youtu.be/egipq89nSgM

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Self Patched #6: Munchausen Syndrome

Jenseits der Zäune (snippet)

Fata Morgana (snippet)

This is a live improvisation I have performed at "Grenzgänge" (i.e. crossing borders) created by ZAK. Many thanks to Monika Thiery and Konrad Franz: www.z-a-k.art

live @ Stadttheater Aschaffenburg

Imitation von Schatten (snippet)

Horizont ohne Sonne (snippet)

Antiprisma (snippet)

Halbautomatik – semi-automated human failures. All patches were created with primitive logic and strictly limited configuration options. Neither sequencer nor prebuilt drums and voices were used. All tracks were performed and recorded in one-shot sessions to keep it a raw and unique listening experience far beyond nowadays conformist music architecture.
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Halbautomatik I

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Thomas Burkhardt - Halbautomatik III (EP Preview)

Gonill’s first release deals with bold structures and gritty elements. Exit Strategies EP will shock the floor with four gravity reversing tracks.

Accept

Deny

Stash

Thomas Burkhardt - Halbautomatik IV (EP Preview)

"Einspeisungen" was performed live July 17th 2025 at Café Krem Aschaffenburg. Thomas Burkhardt was playing the modular system while also resampling and re-arranging sounds made by Jürgen Hafner in real time. Jürgen was playing guitar, self-made instruments and objects and also used his voice.
Many thanks to all supporters, especially Bernhard Hench (Café Krem) and Isabella Burkhardt for taking pictures (Instagram: ib_photographie_de)

Einspeisungen live (LIN/LOG x Jürgen Hafner)

"Zündeln" was performed live @ Alte Feuerwache Mannheim on January 21st 2017. The performers are:

Joss Turnbull: www.jossturnbull.de
Erwan Keravec: www.erwan-keravec.eu
Naranbataar Purevdorj
LIN/LOG: www.lin-log.de

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Zündeln live with Joss Turnbull, Erwan Keravec, Naranbataar Purevdorj, LIN/LOG

This is a live-improvisation performed at ModCon (Vienna) 2017 - 100% modular.
Thanks to Erwin & Lara from Raw Voltage, Moritz & Hanna from Endorphin.es and Jan & Barry from Alex4.

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live @ ModCon 2017

This is a first preview of the upcoming album on 12" vinyl:

Joss Turnbull & LIN/LOG present: Wood and Voltage Sessions
Two masters of their craft have made a collection of one-take recordings with handheld middle eastern percussion and analog modular synthesis. All pieces blend both worlds of wooden and electronic instruments to a twist of great abstraction. Fizzing crackling snap, raw ecstatic energy and deep pulsating waves beam you into a sharp blaze of colour. These live-studio performances from JTLL set a striking mark on the map of experimental incorporations. A-Power-Session-Of-East-West-Traditional-Mania.

Tracklist:
01_Biosonar
02_Sultana
03_Samum
04_Cthulhu
05_Leviathan
06_La Catrina
07_Stagnant Air
08_Buran
09_Lady Knox
10_Bleak
11_Sentinel
12_Mole
13_Smug Pander
14_Cerebrum

Joss Turnbull & LIN/LOG - Wood And Voltage Sessions (12" Album Preview)

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