Made some loops with my (third) selfmade SteelTungueDrum, then finished it in Ableton with effects and drums....

MnmLovva - Touch (MinimalAmbient)

All together: My selfmade Bass, my DiddleyBow, my voice   .....   and my love ; )

Lovvarion - NoBluesAfterAll (Lovva'sLove, Voice & Instruments)

After some time without recorded music I want to give you some news from my cellar.... Here: My selfmade steeltonguedrum and a kaoss-lead....

DerWeilDaDrinn (KaossedSteeltongueDream)

An excerpt from a session recorded during our A.I.R. in Krems (A) in October 2011.
It is the genesis of a new collaboration between  Dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni and myself on Pan-Ney , in which Indian Ragas and Just Intonation pitches find a common ground.
We are also using delays and moving sinetone drones to support the tunings. This is  Part 1 of a work-in-progress , including sections with other invented instruments.The duration the whole composition still in the air.

The Krems 5

The audio sample is Richard Dawkins reading from hate mail that people have sent to him.  At a much earlier time I was repeatedly verbally abused like this by someone I cared about.  This track is my release of that wound that I have carried around for most of my life.  It's also the first time I used an instrument that I made in order to record a track.

MOS - Satanic Dog

WACH TRIO
Amelia Cuni, vocals
Catherine Christer Hennix, vocals
Werner Durand, invented wind-instruments, drones, sound design
This music is growing out of :
Amelia's dhrupad singing and her collaborations in new music
C.C.Hennix's vocal drones and her studies with LaMonte Young
Werner's life-long commitment to experimental music and minimalism


WACH trio

"water meadow" is a performance piece for the sensor instrument "Qgo" and small objects (paper, shells, glass), also Kalimba and Electronics. All sounds I play are processed with Max/MSP. The effect parameters I originally made are controlled with my sensor instrument device Qgo that detects my left arm movements through sensor technology. 

One of my important mission as an experimental musician is that I make the sounds visible, through the physical dynamics.

Here you can see a part of this performance at ZKM, Karlsruhe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnQZAm4qJBQ



water meadow

Again some time with my selfmade SoundBox...

MondaysBestSet (SelfmadeSoundBox & Delay)

I was born in the North of England. I lived there and India before moving to Chicago at 16.  I briefly played violin, had a piano in the house and I was in the school choir until I was 13.  I didn't make music for the next 25 years.   My kids are what got me started again, my daughter brought an upright bass home from school and the three of us including my son took guitar/bass lessons together every week for years.

All of my current music is performed live on a mixture of analog and digital electronic hardware and is recorded in one take,  I don't use computers to perform, I don't really ever have much of a plan beyond loading samples into a sampler, patching my modular synth or building a drum-machine kit.  I don't sequence much of anything ahead of time, everything that happens after I start performing is improvised.

I make all of my music for myself, it's the sound of the pain leaving my body.  It's the story of my life.  

I am grateful.

Lots of selfmade, mostly bedroom- or cellarproduced tracks here, different styles because of different moods and music tools, often selfmade instruments, allways experimenting and in search of sounds and soundmaking stuff, harmonic or non-harmonic....and all free to listen and to download ...and if you want to use one of my tracks or try a collab, just ask, do it and tell me about it... all in terms of Creative Commons...
I have to make music every free minute, allways full of it, and, about time, I have a lot of toys to do this ... these tracks are my kind of relaxing and i will do it till the end of my time...
I hope, you like, what I do....You may find a lot, but no autotune and no AI, I swear...
You cannot OWN music, you only can MAKE it.... (something, Neneh Cherry said)... and so I do...
I never learned an instrument, I am an analphabet in music theory, but that's not important: 
I AM an instrument and there's always music inside me.... and I go on...
SC is my diary: The diary of my steps into the world of music since 2012....
if you want to know something about that: you're welcome!
One of my tracks is especially made for you... 
Try the playlists ; )
Remember:  I DON'T WANT TO BUY SC-PLAYS:  I'll block EVERY try and all those trendscout-robots!! If you like my stuff, listen to it, feel it and tell it to your friends, that's enough.....

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