John Cage quotes:

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
Everything we do is music.
Every something is an echo of nothing.
All great art is a form of complaint.
I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.


Get yourself out - long version

Collaboration with Trixie, https://soundcloud.com/trixie-delight.
Thank you, Trixie. Your voice and feedback gave this the needed push into the right direction.
Voice, words, photo: Trixie
Music, samples, edit: Schmaidl

I dream in my dream
all the dreams of the other dreamers
and I become the other dreamers

only themselves
understand themselves
and the like of themselves
as souls only understand souls

Dream - featuring Trixie Delight

This started as an experiment with nature-made and man-made sounds. It became a real piece after Styrmonix added his horn. He did an awesome job playing with and around my sounds. Check out his work https://soundcloud.com/styrmonix.
Styrmonix: trumpet, photo.
Schmaidl: field recordings, samples, edit.

Play at sufficient volume, and consider using headphones.


Waldhorn - featuring Styrmonix

The basis for this is a Yellow Salamandr track extraordinaire: https://soundcloud.com/yellow-salamandr-4/topsurrealtorindadaville2
Yellow Salamandr's set of complete tracks: https://soundcloud.com/yellow-salamandr-4/sets/ys4
Herr Salamandr is not only a musician, but he is also a great visual artist.

Lurchi's Abenteuer - a Yellow Salamandr story

Thanks to Markus Reineke, https://soundcloud.com/mr183, for letting me cut up his bass recorder improv piece 'Struggle',
https://soundcloud.com/mr183/struggle-for-solo-bass-recorder
Tinkly kitchen percussion (cat food can, claves, finger cymbal, hollow metal rod); drums notated in Sibelius.

What are the options? - feat. Markus Reineke

Here is my contribution to Utu Lautturi's call for Noise Laundry, https://soundcloud.com/utu-lautturi/sets/noise-laundry-invitation-to-a-dirty-collaborative-album-check-info

My piece evolved sometime over summer / fall of 2014. It uses several of Utu's stems with strings, piano, and other recorded samples added. Louder is better on this one.

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/utu-lautturi for initiating this. Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/bitzone for mastering. 

A preview of all tracks is here https://soundcloud.com/utu-lautturi/noise-laundry-promotional-mix-collaborative-album-see-info

download album

Trying to sum it up - for Utu Lautturi's Noise Laundry

New piece with a generous amount of viola.

This is the closing track for my EP "Everything is Invented" now on Dhatura, https://dhaturarecords.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-invented

Visit the bandcamp page and give it a spin.

Download

Rescape - Dhatura EP out, see description

A longer, less polished version of this was in the Dark Outside Project, http://www.darkoutside.co.uk/
https://soundcloud.com/microchip-junky had the idea to put together an EP with edited tracks. You can play and download the aptly named Dark Inside EP here, https://chipshopstudio.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-inside

More tea, fear?

This is my remix for https://soundcloud.com/andreas-bruening, using his loops, https://soundcloud.com/1ooloops. The remixes are here: https://soundcloud.com/1ooloops-reworked. Anyone can join.

I am using loops numbers 58, 59, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 and put a few things on top.

Bruening Loopo remix - read description

This is the first piece on my new album https://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/between-awe-and-rawness released 2/26/2016 on the https://soundcloud.com/tcfsr label.

This composition uses the following public domain audio: NASA https://archive.org/details/Apollo10Highlights

get the album

Forward Mobility - new album release

Piece from my new album https://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/between-awe-and-rawness released 2/26/2016 on the https://soundcloud.com/tcfsr label.

Cities - new album out

This track did not make it on my album https://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/between-awe-and-rawness because of legalities. No download for this one therefore, and may be available for limited amount of time.

Music of the Spheres

This is my contribution to the compilation AIR https://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/air released by various artists from The Committee for Sonic Research label, https://soundcloud.com/tcfsr.

Transmorphism - compilation out

Here is a sampler of my newly released EP 'A View' through the 
https://soundcloud.com/tcfsr label. You can listen to it or download the whole EP here https://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/a-view or by clicking on the 'get the EP' link.

get the EP

A View - sampler, album link in description

https://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/sentience

New compilation out on TCFSR. Download for pay what you want through the link or the 'buy' button.

Sentience

Float - VA compilation

New album out today on bandcamp with limited CD run.

https://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/hangouts

Hangouts sampler - full album link in description

Musically striving to explore diverse genres without plainly trying to be someone I am not. My drive does not lie in the perfect emulation of specific styles.

Drawn to field recordings, sounds from scraps, moods, found sounds, traditional instruments. I am intrigued by 20th century and contemporary composers.

Born and raised in Germany, since a long time in the US. Schmaidl is my nickname from teenage times.

Schmaidl

Popular tracks