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Novalis

Nature is repetition of cyclic events. Each event has specific boundaries that it cannot exceed immeditately, but over time. That was the starting point of my consideration to make this project.
I wanted to create a musical setup in order to play with the idea of being forced to think within inherent boundaries. Therefore I have built a modular system that is some kind of an esoteric technoid creation machine, or in other words a workstation. Being inspired from the idea of natural laws I wanted to limit the number of voices, or instruments, to a certain value as well as the number of mixing channels. Also the creation process itself was limited to boundaries I could not exceed. The modular setup was configured in a way that all parameters interact with each other and react to each current setting. With this in mind the sound creation process functions as an organic and arbitrary entity. So with this setup I was able to play live and improvise pieces very quickly. Every recording was made only once leaving all quirks as they are to keep each track stand out from today’s conformist and accurate music production industry. The goal was to achieve a method of creating spontaneous musical events right from a specific mood of a moment, which I think is how nature itself works.

Enjoy the journey and leave a message where it brought you.

Thomas Burkhardt

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Thomas Burkhardt - Novalis (Album Preview - 32 Tracks)

Thomas Burkhardt -  Voltage Cannibals (extract)

Weiter EP will be released on February 20th.

„Weiter“ is a love letter to music I grew up with and furthermore it is a window to our future. Humans tend to forget their past and believe that future only brings progression, knowledge and wealth. They forget about their spiritual roots and sacrifice their inner thoughts to algorithms in anticipation of redemption and peace. But truth is, all beings have to fight their inner demons for themselves. So stand up! „Es geht weiter!“

Veränderung (snippet)

Echo Echo (snippet)

Weiter (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

Noble earths are needed to fulfil humanity’s wish for digitization and technological progress. That is indeed ironic since in order to construct a world only using digits it still needs nature’s rarest elements. Therefore it must be questioned how much the digital dream is worth in the end. I wanted to convert this question into electronic music that consists of primal elements of rhythm and sound to celebrate rudimentary things that let us feel and dance – powerful elements of the past to guide us into the future.

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Samarium (Preview)

Lanthan (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.

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OKTANT (a collection of 64 modular works)

Promethium (Preview)

Scandium (Preview)

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 (03:34 p.m.)

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

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.
www.lin-log.de

Thomas Burkhardt - Halbautomatik II (EP Preview)

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

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Thomas Burkhardt - Halbautomatik IV (EP Preview)

live-recording from Rack Rash (June 2015). My special thanks to Moritz Scharf from Endorphin.es and Bernhard Rasinger from New Jörg, who made all this possible.

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live @ Rack Rash (New Jörg, Vienna)

"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)

Thomas Burkhardt - Halbautomatik V (EP Preview)

"Einspeisungen 2" was performed live September 20th 2025 at Kornäuschen 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 Ralf Münz, Johannes Honeck, Doris Kroth, Anne Hundhausen and also Isabella Burkhardt for taking pictures (Instagram: ib_photographie_de)

Einspeisungen 2 live (LIN/LOG x Jürgen Hafner)

Thomas Burkhardt - Halbautomatik VI (EP Preview)

A snippet from the forthcoming album "Krach".

Krach (i.e. German for „noise“) is a collection of so called self-generating patches. There is no arrangement in general and therefore each piece is following the only rule of being started, recorded and stopped. What is so special about this album is that these patches are driven by matrices that are switching audio as well as contol voltages in quite the musical way. Each patch defines it’s own set of rules for what signal is routed to which destination leading to stunning extremely complex and beautiful sonic expressions. Since there is no arrangement the overall structure of a piece is defined by events that the modular system creates on its own, but is also restricted by the patch itself. The whole album therefore is an adventurous step into a musical form of controlled chaos caused by man and machine.

www.lin-log.de

Schattenmann (snippet)

Analog Computation contains six compositions that were made exclusively with the pictured modular system. Each piece was recorded as a stereo track in one take. The setup contains many of my favorite modules and works self-sufficiently. The Vermona Retroverb was used to give these patches an environment that interacts with the whole sound, providing analog warmth and saturation.
www.lin-log.de

Analog Computation

Noisering Shuffle

Est. 2010. 
Still not popular.
Working on it.

LIN/LOG

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