Riemann's World by Rainer Straschill The Background From April ’22 to April ’23 Rainer worked on something called “Riemann’s World”. In a nutshell, that was about somewhat portable modular synth things that played aleatoric stuff (and nothing else), and often sounded somewhat EDM-ish. There’s a few videos on that, including some Erklärbär ones, for you …
Vektormenschen by Rainer Straschill Spielsachen has been a rather long-running project. Since March 2018, there have been dozens of videos of…what exactly? Straschill doing stuff with synth hardware (mostly modular one, and mostly analogue synthesis). Yet while some of the releases since have taken inspiration from those activities, there has never been a proper Spielsachen album. Until now. It’s not …
A House with two Rooms by Rainer Straschill The MoinSound Studio Sessions was a rather big project. It had led to four album releases, plus two limited-edition EPs. And there was always this talk about yet another release „next year“. This year – 2020 – is now this „next year“. What it is Around Epiphany of 2010, I …
Würm Bank by Rainer Straschill One year after 2018’s only release, it had become the same time of the year again: RPM Challenge time. And it had become a time of Eurorack synth goofage. Würm Bank The Würm rises from the Starnbergersee near Starnberg, and joins the Amper near Dachau. Along its path, it flows through …
grummelig by Rainer Straschill 2018 ended more or less as it had started, if only shifted by a month or so: work on an album to explore new worlds. In this case, noise and bass music. Although the result is not the garden variety. grummelig Noise gets explored. As in „noise from cassette tape“ (in …
Neue Sachen aus dem Notenbüchlein für coole Instrumente by Rainer Straschill The RPM Challenge has been around for quite some time; it started in 2006. Every year, a bunch of musical artists and ensembles pursue the goal to produce an album (no less than ten tracks, or 35 minutes of music) in its entirety during the …
Erlanger Programm by Rainer Straschill In 1872, Felix Klein presented his Programmschrift Vergleichende Betrachtungen über neuere geometrische Forschungen to describe his intended research focus as part of his tenure as a professor for mathematics at Universität Erlangen. This text is hence known for short as Erlanger Programm. Twelve to the power of two years later, Rainer Straschill presents …
[mbsspn016] oscillator theory by Rainer Straschill I wanted to do an album of electronic music for some time. A solo album. Synths. And effects. And „synths“ meaning lots of hardware synths. And I wanted it to be serial music composition-wise. Employing the concept of what musicians call a superformel, which, mathematically speaking, is not a formula, …
MSSS: Surreal Spaces by Rainer Straschill Another Space The MoinSound Studio Sessions have left a diverse and wide (and sometimes, wild) field of recorded material – all in all, some 40 or so hours. Of course, some of this is crap. Then there’s a multitude of small gems, hidden in all those recordings. And finally, …
Eclectic Blah by Eclectic Blah Eclectic Blah… Eclectic Blah was, during its existence by the beginning of the millenium, about two things: the music must be radically freely improvised, and it must be danceable. Most of the sessions and concerts were recorded, and starting in 2002, recording a concert meant digital multi-track. …the Album The album …
