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This track is mainly based on free sample instruments uploaded by the amazing Pianobook community:

https://www.pianobook.co.uk / https://soundcloud.com/pianobook

The following instruments / sample packs were used:

Prepared Piano: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/prepared-piano/
Warty Dulcitone: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/warty-dulcitone/
Cinematic Kalimba: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/cinematic-kalimba/
Hofner “Violin” Bass Guitar: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/hofner-violin-bass-guitar/
Hunter’s Percussion – World: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/hunters-percussion-world/
Hunter’s Percussion – Kitchen: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/hunters-percussion-kitchen/

Miniaturen

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Willkommen im Psyche-Deli

Schwarzes Rauschen

This track is inspired by a typo in german-language review  about an album by the norwegian band "Weserbergland", calling their music "Elktronikexperimente" - which made my actually wonder if there was an obscure subgenre of Nordic Electronic Music called "Elktronic". 

Anyway, if there was, it might sound something like this track which was created by using the amazing sounds Elks make (plus one drum loop at the end). So, thanks(?), Achim Breiling of babyblaue-seiten.de 

Check out the original sounds from Yellowstone Park here: https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/sounds-elk.htm

Elktronik-Experimente

This is my attempt at a sound like the Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra etc., inspired by the sounds of Space Patrol Orion etc.

Zwei Weltraum-Apostel

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This album has changed course since work on it began. Originally, it was supposed to become "Uyt den gheest", the planned sister album to "Naer het leven". The idea for "Uyt den gheest" was to have two parts, a "Metal" side and a "Wood" side.

But soon while working on the first tracks, a new story/concept for the album presented itself: a journey to heaven; but it's not completely clear if that journey is permanent or just a visit - or if it even actually is heaven where the visitor ends up. That's for you to decide.

What stayed from the original idea is the "Metal" part: All sounds on the album are either, in contrast to other Phaneronaut releases, from digital synthesizers or from sampled "real" instruments that have different kinds of metal as their primary source of sound production (with some exceptions for drums/percussion and voices).

Written, performed and produced by Udo Gerhards (October 2021 - June 2022)

Anabasis

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Canto Five: Downward

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This album, "Anabasis", has changed course since work on it began. Originally, it was supposed to become "Uyt den gheest", the planned sister album to "Naer het leven". The idea for "Uyt den gheest" was to have two parts, a "Metal" side and a "Wood" side.

But soon while working on the first tracks, a new story/concept for the album presented itself: a journey to heaven; but it's not completely clear if that journey is permanent or just a visit - or if it even actually is heaven where the visitor ends up. That's for you to decide.

What stayed from the original idea is the "Metal" part: All sounds on the album are either, in contrast to other Phaneronaut releases, from digital synthesizers or from sampled "real" instruments that have different kinds of metal as their primary source of sound production (with some exceptions for drums/percussion and voices).

Written, performed and produced by Udo Gerhards (October 2021 - June 2022)

Canto Two: The Waiting Room

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Free Phaneronaut album downloads: https://phaneronaut.bandcamp.com/music

This album has changed course since work on it began. Originally, it was supposed to become "Uyt den gheest", the planned sister album to "Naer het leven". The idea for "Uyt den gheest" was to have two parts, a "Metal" side and a "Wood" side.

But soon while working on the first tracks, a new story/concept for the album presented itself: a journey to heaven; but it's not completely clear if that journey is permanent or just a visit - or if it even actually is heaven where the visitor ends up. That's for you to decide.

What stayed from the original idea is the "Metal" part: All sounds on the album are either, in contrast to other Phaneronaut releases, from digital synthesizers or from sampled "real" instruments that have different kinds of metal as their primary source of sound production (with some exceptions for drums/percussion and voices).

Written, performed and produced by Udo Gerhards (October 2021 - June 2022)

Canto One: Chorale

Eine Vorahnung

Tagträume

From the album "Tape Concerto", free download at https://phaneronaut.bandcamp.com/album/tape-concerto

Many thanks to Louis Cypher for allowing me to mangle their 1994 demo cassette!

Tape Concerto

Fourth Movement: Holographic Metal Band in an Imaginary Landscape

Tape Concerto, 4th Movement: Holographic Metal Band in an Imaginary Landscape

From the album "Tape Concerto", free download at https://phaneronaut.bandcamp.com/album/tape-concerto

Featuring Verena Buchholz on Flute & Clarinets

Third Movement: Winds

Tape Concerto, 3rd Movement: Winds

Nekropolis '22 live at the Peter Frohmader Memorial Concert, April 29th 2023 at Kulturkeller, München.

Free album download: https://phaneronaut.bandcamp.com/album/live-23

All pieces spontaneously composed by:

Ray Cipolla: Drums
Gerhard Lallinger: Bass
Udo Gerhards: Keys

Produced by RCV Productions

Cover painting "Das Ding auf der Schwelle" by Peter Frohmader
Cover design by Ulrich Miksa
Mixed by Ray Cipolla & Udo Gerhards
Live audio engineer: Michi Greger

Many thanks to the team of Kulturkeller Westend, esp. Günther Klingler and Michi Greger.

In memoriam Peter Frohmader, 1958-2022

Live '23

Das Ding auf der Schwelle

Nekropolis '22 - Das Ding auf der Schwelle

This is just me having fun with the Royal Road chord progression (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_road_progression), Synthesizer V's Saki (Vocals, https://dreamtonics.com) and ChatGPT (Lyrics; Prompt: "Write a song in Japanese about yourself" plus some additional tweaking)

You can also stream the song at all the usual suspects: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/phaneronaut/mashin-no-uta

You can get all my albums for free at https://phaneronaut.bandcamp.com

Mashin no uta

Stream at Spotify etc

From the album "Tape Concerto", free download at https://phaneronaut.bandcamp.com/album/tape-concerto

Featuring Rainer Lange on Guitar (https://trigon.bandcamp.com)

First Movement: Guitar

Tape Concerto, 1st Movement: Guitar

From the album "Tape Concerto", free download at https://phaneronaut.bandcamp.com/album/tape-concerto

Featuring:

Francisco Grillo: Trumpet (Melodies, Solo 2)
Michael Bossen: Trumpet (Solo 1, Outro)

Second Movement: Trumpets

Tape Concerto, 2nd Movement: Trumpets

From the album "Tape Concerto", free download at https://phaneronaut.bandcamp.com/album/tape-concerto

Featuring Verena Buchholz on Soprano & Alto Recorders

Coda: Recorders

Tape Concerto, Coda: Recorders

A preview of an upcoming project: "Song of the Machine".  I wish all of you a happy, healthy and creative new year.

Song of the Machine

Interlude 4

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Song of the Machine: Travel Time No. 4

This song has been sitting on my hard drive for a few years. Originally it was written and recorded for an album that was, as so often is the case with my stuff, a concept album on two different levels:

On the one hand, the "story" of the music was supposed to be one of a steam-powered spaceship, from its launch and through its maiden voyage through space, some space adventures and its return to earth. On the other hand, the idea was to create every single sound on the album with the Arturia Matrixbrute Monosynth.

But then, life and other projects came in the way, and I've released a lot of music in the past few years, but never got back to this project. Maybe, someday I will, but for now, I'll just put the two finished tracks from the project out there.

This song is the sound of a brass band playind at the launch event for the spaceship.

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Steam-Powered Spaceship

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Launchpad Parade

This song has been sitting on my hard drive for a few years. Originally it was written and recorded for an album that was, as so often is the case with my stuff, a concept album on two different levels:

On the one hand, the "story" of the music was supposed to be one of a steam-powered spaceship, from its launch and through its maiden voyage through space and its return to earth. On the other hand, the idea was to create every single sound on the album with the Arturia Matrixbrute Monosynth.

But then, life and other projects came in the way, and I've released a lot of music in the past few years, but never got back to this project. Maybe, someday I will, but for now, I'll just put the two finished tracks from the project out there.

This song here is obviously influenced by Ravel's Bolero, the idea of the extended middle of synth sounds via a single theme. This is supposed to be the part during which the ship travels through space after its stressful launch. Some of the beeps in there are real Morse Code, btw.

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A Celestial Afternoon

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Somatic System

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Hyena: Laughs

Heart: Beats

From a series of studies featuring the L.E.P Arpopone and the L.E.P Multicassa. Also featuring the Landscape.fm Stereo Field.

Night in the Laboratory of Popular Electronics

Ritual Dance Of The Electrons, Pt. I

More free music

This is just a spontaneous improvisation with my new Moog Matriarch. I tried to use at least some of the features like the different voice modes, oscillator sync etc. (no patching though). I also threw together a simple sequence to demonstrate the use of the Ratchet, Tie and Rest buttons as live performance tools for on-the-fly sequence manipulation - something that I don't remember seeing in any of the Matriarch videos I have watched. 

You can also watch this performance on YouTube (although you won't be seeing much more than two hands playing a colourful synthesizer and twiddling some knobs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rhl3VwicyE

There's a little bit of reverb added, the rest is purely the Matriarch.

My music: https://phaneronaut.bandcamp.com

You can get all my electronic music in a variety of styles on Bandcamp for free.  Of course you're welcome to pay for them as well if you like what you hear. But just downloading is fine, too.

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Moog Matriarch Improvisation

Recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown in Munich, late March and early April 2020.

You can get all my albums for free on Bandcamp: https://phaneronaut.bandcamp.com/music

Instruments:

Moog Matriarch

Straight from the Quarry

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Matriarchal Warmth

This is the soundtrack to a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_oshdYRpzI) of an evening live jam with Gotharman's fantastic SpazeDrum and the Moog Subharmonicon. The video is meant more as a demonstration of the morphing features of the SpazeDrum than a musical piece, so don't expect a fancy composition.

The SpazeDrum clocks the Subharmonicon,  an the Neon-Egg Planetarium provides effects (plus some gentle sidechaining) for the Subharmonicon. A little bit of reverb was added to the SpazeDrum during mixing.

More information on the gear:

http://www.gotharman.dk/spazedrum.htm
http://neonegg.com/Info/
https://www.moogmusic.com/products/su...

My music: https://phaneronaut.bandcamp.com

You can get all my electronic music in a variety of styles on Bandcamp for free.  Of course you're welcome to pay for them as well if you like what you hear. But just downloading is fine, too.

Follow me: 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phaneronaut/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ugerhard/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ugerhard

Watch the video

Gotharman's SpazeDrum & Moog Subharmonicon

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"By the phaneron I mean the collective total of all that is in any way or in any sense present to the mind, quite regardless of whether it corresponds to any real thing or not." (Charles Sanders Peirce)

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