For 20 years I have worked fulltime as a professional composer, musician and producer. On the one hand, together withStella Wassermann, I've built our diverse musical projects like Schaltkreis Wassermann and Matterhorn Project - on the other I made music for videos and films and I created jingles for all kinds of companies. Stella and I have been among the pioneers of electronic music in Switzerland.
Our independent recording projects sometimes made money, mostly they didn't. Nobody really took care of management and marketing. So the money came mainly from the works of commission. In the course of the years I more and more got the feeling that the musical work for advertising agencies and movie producers was draining my creativity. I kind of had forgotten why I actually had started making music.
That's why I started looking for a way out of the economic dependency on music. I began to program websites, CD-ROMs and databases. One of the most interesting projects in this sector is phontastic.ch, the Swiss online distributor for independent musicians, producers and labels, supported by Swiss Performers Society SIG. In the last years I have concentrated on developing FilemakerPro databases.
This kind of work has given me the freedom to find again and pursue my own musical visions, completely independent of the music business. We experimented and started to develop Stella's solo work and then mine. Both are in the realms of chillout and lounge. Stella's albums focuses on vocals and oriental influences while my style focuses more on the guitar. Both of course have a distinct electronic character.
In the summer of 2007 hypermusic closed a worldwide subpublishing deal with the renowned Berlin publisher Budde Music that is to provide a new foundation for marketing our music all over the world.
Stella and I work on getting our music back to the stage as an audiovisual experience. It's an exciting time and I hope you'll enjoy the ride with us!
I've got a blog with all our latest news and my political, cultural and philospohical statements - but currently only in German, sorry.
Musicplayer Hear three tracks from my first solo album "Triple E", then one track each from Stella's two solo albums that I've had the pleasure to produce, one track from our historical album "Psychotron" by Schaltkreis Wassermann, and then "MUH!" by Matterhorn Project, our commercially most successful song. Just click on the track that you want to hear.
Curriculum, ultra-short • Composer, guitarist, electronic musician, producer
• Owner of hypermusic (music publishing and production)
• Database developer (FilemakerPro)
• Web programmer
• Ex-Journalist, teacher's diploma
• Politically active for the decriminalization of Cannabis and for the rights of musicians and composers
• Cofounder and programmer of phontastic.ch, the Swiss online distributor for independent musicians, producers and labels, supported by Swiss Performers Society SIG.
Charts positions: • Nr. 3 of the German indie charts with "Sex is out" by Schaltkreis Wassermann, ca. 1980 • Nr. 7 of the English synthesizer charts with "Psychotron" by Schaltkreis Wassermann, ca. 1981 • Nr. 2 of the Swiss charts with MUH! by Matterhorn Project, 1985
• Nr. 8 of the Swiss charts with Yo-Lollo-Diuh by Matterhorn Project, 1985 • Nr. 26 of the Swiss charts with Matterhorn Project by Matterhorn Project, 1985
• Nr. 5 in South Africa with MUH! by Matterhorn Project, 1986
• Nr. 74 of the German single charts with "Knut ist gut! by Der Eisbär, 2007
