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.

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Triptychon

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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Thomas Burkhardt - Selten

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.

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Artefakt (Album Preview)

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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End of Cycle

Xmod (snippet)

- This is a massive 32 track album containing more than 170 minutes of addictive content -

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

Thomas Burkhardt - Novalis (Album Preview - 32 Tracks)

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)

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.

Utopie

Mutualismus

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)

Cer (Preview)

Samarium (Preview)

Europium (Preview)

Lanthan (Preview)

Yttrium (Preview)

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.

Sein, Werden (Preview)

Sequenzierung (Preview)

Liebe (Preview)

Innere Stimme (Preview)

Licht (Preview)

In Ewigkeit (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 (10:52 a.m.)

live at ICO 100 (11:56 a.m.)

live at ICO 100 (12:07 a.m.)

live at ICO 100 (02:50 p.m.)

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

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

live at ICO 100 (04:01 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)

"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

Enjoy this unconventional improvised concert in full length!

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

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.
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Analog Computation

Noisering Shuffle

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

Not for everyone, but all for a few.

LIN/LOG

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