static

Static is my solo music project since 1999. It all began with an 808 I found at the highschool where I was studying jazzdrums some years before. Soon I also bought a Fender Rhodes, a sampler and some vintage electronic drum pads .

My first 12" was released in 2000 entitled static islands. Then, soon i signed with City Centre Offices and made several longplayers, 12", 7" and remixes.

I would discribe static´s music as loop based, repetative, harmonic, pop influenced, and with a liability to melancholia. On the first three albums there were guest appearances by Christof Kurzmann, Ronald Lippok , Valerie Trebeljahr and Justine Electra, Martin Sievert and Stefan Schneider. After 3 longplayers i decided to make something different or at least to change the focus again.

So i made recordings with some of the most interesting improvising musicians in berlin which some of them i knew from the days when i was also part of the berlin improv scene. They were Axel Dörner, Tobias Delius , Clayton Thomas, Clare Cooper, Sabine Vogel, Magda Mayas , Geert-Jan Prins and Nicholas Bussmann on their instruments as well as Yanira Castro and Falko Teichmann singing.The result is a mixture between electronic loop music,pop,mimimal music,freejazz and folk.

But listen yourself.

Photo by Maak Roberts, more pictures of static here .