No matter,
If you are a minor, big or medium sound. Exiting or unexciting sound, pleasant or unpleasant sound.
No matter.
As long as there is sound, I am fine.
We are fine.
I have been obsessed with the vibrations surrounding us for quite some years.
It became the passion in life that one studies throughout one's lifetime, relating everything to it and finding the meaning of life in it.
I physically started off my sound path somewhere in the microscopic vibrations of two human beings creating love and welcoming me on our physical plane. Not understanding anything but observig auditive and visual matter. Some years went by, and I found myself going through a Rudolf-Steiner kindergarten and school program, which let me stay and furthermore supported me in staying and developing myself on this auditory, visual and emotional plane.
When I was around 8 years old, I got the opportunity to start piano lessons with the warm-hearted teacher, Swen Fischer. He introduced me emotionally and technically to the core of this instrument for me to fall in love with. He taught me how to read, interpret, play, perform and correctly articulate piano pieces from various musical eras. Always strict but joyful and emotional.
Mainly in gratitude to him, I could graduate with my music-focused abitur in 2016 and continue this path.
In 2017, I moved to Amsterdam for a 3-year music production program at the United Pop Academy. I finished with a BA (Hons) "Music Technology Specialist" year in collaboration with the University of West London. During this time, I received a comprehensive overview of the field of music.
I learned how to connect, control, and lead recording and mixing studios, how to work with bands and artists, how to organize and execute projects, music labels, and music rights, and how to enhance my skills with further techniques in composing, producing, and editing in digital and analogue audio workstations.
The technical knowledge gained in these years, in combination with my rising passion for improvisation music and the accelerating anti-posture towards mass consumption of music, made me feel the need to start a music project with the core element of free, accessible sound improvisations that can be heard once only.
This was the birth of WORLED. I called a school friend with a coding collective in Berlin, and they started right away with programming the online platform WORLED.SPACE, where weekly sound pieces by artists I meet and myself are published and freely accessible in harmony with an audio visualizer.
Furthermore, in my university studies, I learned the physics of acoustics, how to analyze and control them in different spaces, and the beauty of audio post-production, including recording foleys, creating effects, editing dialogue, and composing a film score.
The module which touched me the most, though, was a class on "Experimental Sound" held by Phelan Kane. He introduced a more artistic and experimental approach to sound instead of a musical and aesthetic approach. I was hooked. For the final projects, I did a data sonification piece with transformed sound from data from our orbiting home planet, Earth. It is still one of my favourite projects and opened my eyes to new possibilities.
Even though I started the multi-media project WORLED a year before this, throughout this class, the project's purpose accelerated and manifested itself quickly into this approach of connecting, creating, and representing auditory and visual matter.
Throughout the last year of the study, I was already living in Berlin, diving into the art world and participating in beautiful installations such as the immersive art experience "DreamWorld" or "The Sphere" by Ben Mergelsberg, Hannah Brenner, and Martin Borini, where we lighted up Tabor-Church in Berlin and created magical evenings with sound and light shows.
Parallel in time, the historic electro halls of Berlin inspired me to dive deeper into the world of electronic music production and performance. I discovered new tunes, synthesizers, and drum machines in various genres, including techno, house, dub, downtempo, and ambient. No matter what tempo, I got more and more analogue and digital gear to produce and perform electronic music under my alias, CosmicC.
In the summer of 2021, after I finished the study program, I decided to move to Budapest, Hungary.
I brought my instruments and built a music studio at the 4K Cultural Centre, where I could support the crew in implementing concerts, markets, and exhibitions on this ground. A significant highlight during this time was the "OFFCOURSE" hardware jam workshops series I organized together with Budapest-based producers and live acts "KLPFLRTPR" and "Grec Orca." We were invited to numerous clubs and festivals in and around Budapest to bring our electronic gear and show visitors an entrance into analogue machines, how to control them and get into a jam.
Thanks to Greg Orca, who suggested me to an impro-dance ensemble in Budapest, I was able to be the musician for "Kit Ensemble", a loving and experimenting group of dancers with whom I practised week to week the core meaning and somatic feeling of improvisation. Together, we created two performances, "Ocean Hands" and "Earthing", which we presented numerous times in Budapest.
Besides this, I further developed my work as a freelancer in the music world. Composing soundtracks for videos and podcasts and working on personal productions for WORLED and CosmicC.
In the summer of 2022, I collaborated with the pianist Zoran Imšorivić on a project where I edited modern music of Arvo Pärt, John Cage and Steve Reich to an electro-acoustic experiment for piano and electronics, which we performed during the Piano Summer Festival 2022.
In the autumn of 2023, I took a break from the "Big City Life." I moved to the countryside in southern Bavaria, Germany, where I enjoyed a winter on my own, taking long walks, recording sounds of nature, and continuing to produce in various sound formats.
In the meantime of the past years, I got the honour to meet the world touring producer and DJ Luigi Urban, aka Obscure Shape, with whom I have been producing electronic music for many years already. Due to considerable geographical distances, we couldn't deepen our collaboration but felt the need to live closer to each other to bring our projects to the next stage. For this reason and the convenience that my grandfather is living not far from Luigi, I took the chance to move here in the spring of 2024 to support my grandfather in his old years to be a short trip away to Luigis Studio to prepare our first vinyl record and live-set.
So, here I am, living my sound path, doing whatever interests me about sound and wherever my curiosity leads me.
As long as there is sound around me,
I am fine.
We are fine.
