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Daemons: a new musical experiment.

Well, life seems a little slow at the moment, especially when looking at the English version of my blog. The German branch is working out just fine with one or two blog entries a month, at least--even though that's still way less than I'd imagined I'd blog--but it might be time to stock up on a few more English-language posts. I just need to feel like writing, and the split between keeping content pertaining to German politics in German, musical and technological content in both English and German, isn't really helpful at generating written stuff. I'll try, I promise.

So, I'm starting with my new music cycle called Daemons. You can listen to it over on my Bandcamp page, and I'll post a page about it on my web site as well when I find something interesting to write about it. The catch with this album: it's not really an album in itself, but a collection of single-composition albums. So, the first entry, titled "Vepar", is an improvised and heavily treated composition of almost 50 minutes in length. It'll test your endurance and your acceptance of oddly-pitched sounds all the way throughout. I love it. Perhaps I should try to license it for a horror movie soundtrack?

A bit of a music update...

I'd decided in early Februrary that I'd put my music projects on hold for a while. The thought behind this is pretty grim: I'm nearing an age milestone in my life and feel like I still haven't got even the most basic parts figured out (more on that later here or on the German site). Music is still on hold for the most part, but I can't stay away completely completely. So, a little bit of a tally of where things are today:

All right, so bear with me for a little bit...

If you're reading this, you may have noticed that this web site hasn't been here before. So, what happened?

As the first, welcoming blog post already indicated, I've decided to take up blogging again. Perhaps this presentation of who I am and what I do might help in procuring a job (after two depressions--the world-wide economic one and a hefty personal one--proceeded to kick me while I was already down). Also, I'm looking forward to debate and discuss interesting topics more in-depth than Facebook and consorts allow, and with more people than just my best friend who is one of the few people interested in shedding light on what's going on in the world.

Welcome!

After a bit of time of self-imposed abstinence from the blogging world, I've decided to take up blogging yet again. With this new web site, one significant thing has changed: this time, I'm blogging in English (as usual), but I'm also providing a German blog.