God rest ye merry, Gentlemen

"Natatorium"
- music for moonlight drives & swimming pools -
2009

Moondial

"Fairy-Marsh-Districts"
- music for sunken monasteries & castle moats -
2010

Lunatic Asylum 2010

"Auerbach´s Night Club"
- music for the lust generation & wine-cask-riders -
2007 & 2008

Auerbach´s Night Club

"Walpurgisnacht"
- music for saints & witches -
2003, 2006 & 2008

Mandrake Flight

"In the bleak midwinter"

Thorsten "Q" Quaeschning:
Piano, Electric-Guitars, Synthesizer, Drums, Glockenspiel

Helen Pfaff:
Vocals

Chris Hausl:
Vocals

Julia Hecht:
Cello

Nadine Gomez:
Violin

Bjorn Sjollruud:
Viola

Produced:
Thorsten "Q" Quaeschning

Mastered:
Bjorn Sjollruud

Recorded December 2014:
Townend-Studios (Berlin), Reloaded-Studio (Frankfurt a.M.)

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In the bleak midwinter

Unreleased

Unpredictable ConSequences

Music:
Thorsten "Q" Quaeschning


Another Goldfish Memory

Picture Palace music

Fairytale of New York
(Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer)

Thorsten “Q” Quaeschning: Synthesizer, Drums, Electric Guitar, Vocals, String Arrangement
Philip Michael Klenz: Electric Guitar
André Gutsmuths: Vocals
Chris Hausl: Vocals
Anja Adam: Vocals
Julia Hecht: Cello
Hoshiko Yamane: Violin
Chris Umbach: Electric Bassguitar
Bjørn Sjollruud: Mastering

Recorded December 2015
Townend-Studios (Berlin) & Reloaded-Studios (Frankfurt am Main)

Special Thanks to:
Arnar Gíslason, Steinberg, Manikin Electronic, Native Instruments, Roland

Merry Christmas!

Fairytale of New York

"to bow down"
(Thorsten Quaeschning)

Thorsten “Q” Quaeschning: Memotron, Synthesizer

Bjørn Sjollruud: Mastering

Recorded February 2015
Townend-Studios (Berlin)



Thank you very much, Sir.

to bow down

Midsummer´s Day 2016
(Quaeschning/Djirre)
Live


Midsummer s Day

Midsummer´s Day 2016

Thorsten "Q" Quaeschning:
Synthesizer, Electric Guitars, Drums

Chris Hausl:
Vocals

Auld lang syne

"Next year, we may all be many miles away"
- music for the winter solstice -

Hello Madams, Sirs, Reindeers, Soundcloud

I wish you a very, merry Christmas.

Like every year (since 2003) we recorded a christmastune.
This year, it´s “Hark! The Herald Angel sing”
Christmas is a good opportunity to stop or slow down the time – so it´s in 31,5 beats per minute.
Melody: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Arrangement: Thorsten Quaeschning
Julia Hecht: Cello
Thorsten Quaeschning: Piano, Synthesizer
Hoshiko Yamane: Violin
Anne Uerlich: Viola
Casa de Q: Rain Field-Recording
Mix: Bjorn Sjollruud

"Next year, we may all be many miles away" - music for the winter solstice -

Hark! the herald angel sing

"Metropolis Poetry"
- music inspired by Fritz Lang´s "Metropolis"
2011
Recorded in 2005, 2008 & 2012

Metropolis Theme

Beatific Vision

Picture Palace music
The electronic post-rock ensemble Picture Palace music is the brainchild of the Berlin-based musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer Thorsten Quaeschning - who is most renowned for his work with Edgar Froeses legendary Tangerine Dream. At its start-up in 2003, it produced innovative compositions for classical silent movies, which are marked by a mix of moving melodies, guitar-laden soundscapes, and modern noise elements. By doing so, the band embraced the extraordinary challenges and potential that todays technological evolutions can bring to musical creativity.

These productions for film were worked out as live-sets and subsequently laid down in three studio records: Natatorium (2009), Midsummer (2010), and Indulge the Passion (2012), which all proved to be successful. Picture Palace music became a three-time Schallwelle-Award winner for best electronic musical act and headlined the highly acclaimed E-Live-festival in Oirschot (The Netherlands) in 2010 and 2012, as well as the Kostrinella-festival in Kostrzyn nad Odra (Poland) in 2010.

Since then, the band has continued to work on film music for English and German television. This resulted in the soundtracks Remnants (2013) for a BBC-documentary about the Neolithic civilization of Britain, and Letters from Libya (2014), written for a road movie about Libya after Gaddafi.  

2014 sees Picture Palace music on the road again with a new album, titled Unpredictable ConSequences. While touring all over Germany, the band will also feature as supporting act for Alan Parsons Live Project.

Picture Palace music / Thorsten Quaeschning

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