Ladies and gentlemen, my new album Back In Town is here. Songs about spiritual adventures, community and good times.
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In 2013 Marc Thiele asked me to join his wonderful conference Beyond Tellerrand. I came up with this concept of audio-sketchnotes, sampling the speakers and incorporating the samples into my music. And to get everybody into the right mood I started to write so called theme songs. Songs especially for the crowd of Beyond Tellerrand to get everyone on the same page. So the songs and the lyrics are a direct reflection on the beautiful community that gathers at these special events. But these tracks have become so much more. Originally for the Beyond Tellerrand crowd they now invite each and everyone to join the party and share this special spirit. So put your dancing shoes on because: Boys and girls we are back in town.
Mr. Marc Thiele
December 2020
This one is for my friend Marc Thiele. He runs the conference BEYOND
TELLERRAND. For 2020 he had planned to have three of his lovely get-togethers in Düsseldorf,
Berlin and Munich. Due to Corona all three were cancelled. This is tragic. For one thing Marc
couldn't bring his wonderful community together which is always a treat. The other thing is that
he didn't make any money this year. Kind of uncool especially if you have a family to take care
of.
So this little video is a reminder of what we were missing out on. It's a tribute to Marc’s
talents and his vocation. He is a connector, a talent attractor. It's a sort of a prayer for
better times where we can share a common belief in one room. Plus I realized that I've never
sampled Marc. So it was about time.
Thank you so much to Florian Ziegler for providing the photos and being so uncomplicated and to
Stefan Nitzsche for this one extra photo. And a final thank you to Hugh Elliott and Stefan
Grambart of the podcast CAN'T SELL THIS for letting me use their episode with Marc allowing me
to sample him.
Beautiful
August 2020
San Francisco - what a beautiful city. One day I will be back.
A fun Experiment
June 2020
SOMA LABORATORY is a fantastic synth company. They provided a fabulous set of
samples and asked their fans to come up with a track. That's exactly what's happening here. The
track was composed by only utilizing a selection of the supplied samples - no other sounds were
used. Everything was assembled and performed with my beloved Octatrack. The SOMA samples had a
wonderful dirty quality and so it was a real pleasure to come up with this track.
It was a creative search, a labour of love, it was:
The SOMA Experiment
Instrumentals
Theme Songs
Speaker Songs
Visuals and Imagery
Here are some videos where I provided the music
Titles for the the BEYOND TELLERRAND conference in Düsseldorf
Titles for the BEYOND TELLERRAND conference in Berlin
Titles for the NIGHTLY BUILD conference in Cologne
Titles for the SCRIPT 19 conference in Linz
Titles for the BEYOND TELLERRAND conference in Düsseldorf
Recap for the BEYOND TELLERRAND conference in Düsseldorf
Recap for the BEYOND TELLERRAND conference in Düsseldorf
Titles for the BEYOND TELLERRAND conference in Berlin
How bizarre
September 2017
In October I'll be playing
at the
sexy KITKAT
Club in Berlin along with DJ HIMSELF and friends. This one's going to be bizarre. Join us
for a
totally crazy
night out.
Show us the way
September 2017
It's dark, the lights are bright and the owl is showing us the way. Yes Sir, it's Nightly
Build all
over again.
Bruce Lawson is back with his unique sense of humor, grilling the speakers on his infamous
Sofa Of
Interrogation. Thank you boys for a great night.
This is the summit
August 2017
Gimme some more. It's always a good feeling when something grows. So the Conversion Summit
converted
into a
bigger event changing it's very own name along the way. We even got a taste of fame and
fandom when
business
guru Gary Vaynerchuk joined the ranks. Let me tell you: this is the summit!
a bonafide connection
May 2017
We connect: Someone saw me in Düsseldorf and booked me for Frankfurt. Someone saw me in
Frankfurt and
booked me
for Zurich. What a beautiful city. I had a blast in Switzerland and wrote this summer hit.
We
connect, we
connect. That is perfection, yes it's a true connection. Check it out.
Take me out of Bounds
May 2017
Take me, take me out of bounds. Spin me, spin me round and round. Let's join the circus, the
community in D-dorf.
This is the idea exchange that is called Beyond T. You know what I'm talking about. Put on
the red
lights and
bring it on.
Ready to get down
November 2016
Let's get cracking, start the countdown, three, two, one, we are back in town, hit the ground
running, ready to
get down. Boys and girls we are back in town. That's right. We are looking beyond again.
This is
Beyond
Tellerrand in Berlin at the marvelous Admiralspalast. We had a blast.
Baldower Is back in town
October 2016
We all had such a wonderful
time in
July
dancing the night away. So, everybody: It's party time again. Because Baldower is back in
town.
Join me at
Prinz Albert
in
Düsseldorf.
Admission is free. Bring on the good times!
Baldower Live
June 2016
Yes! I'll be playing at the
Prinz Albert
in
Düsseldorf.
Admission is free. Join the good times!
Sky scraping madness
September 2016
It's this time of the year: From Frankfurt's sky scraping madness back to the holy spirits of
Cologne's
cathedral. Let's all learn how to properly convert at the one and only Conversion Summit.
And then
let's get
lost in the marvelous ideas of Nightly Build.
the funny troll
June 2016
His existence is simple: he serves to entertain and amuse. Mr Bingo is an awesome
illustrator with a
knack for
trolling. At Beyond Tellerrand he told the crowd all about his hate-mail art project. This is his song
All the people
May 2016
The Beyond crew was back in town. We came, we talked and we rocked Düsseldorf. Because all
the
people, every
person, anybody, everyone, wants to be, wants to see, wants to go the distance, Beyond
Tellerrand.
That's right.
Go ahead and check
it
out
Amazing revelations
November 2015
Back at the marvelous Admiralspalast in Berlin with Beyond Tellerrand. And I've got a new
theme song
up my
sleeve. It comes with extensive lyrics about the struggle of creativity. I've been a
detective of
the soul that
got caught between the lines. It's a Discovery
imagination
October 2015
The organizers of NIGHTLY BUILD - a bunch of really nice people - have picked a name for
their
conference that
really gets my imagination going. So for their theme song I sat down, wrote some lyrics and
came up
with a
composition that a friend of mine placed in the imaginary genre named "electronic opera". To
find
out what
exactly he means by that I suggest you simply follow the
link right here.
For those of you who are the more visually inclined kind of folks, I have a shorter version
combined
with some
really great imagery. It's the titles of course. And it goes like this:
To Make the right connection
September 2015
The conference CONVERSION SUMMIT in Frankfurt has been around for a couple of years. One of
the
organizers saw
me at the BEYOND TELLERRAND in spring, liked what he heard and decided to book me for their
event in
the fall. I
guess that's the best compliment one can get. Thank you very much. I was honored. So much,
that I
came up with
one of my best theme songs so far. I had a blast, I rocked the venue. I have the best job in
the
world. Here
is the
song.
Makin' it super fancy
May 2015
When Rachel Nabors started her talk at the BEYOND TELLERRAND 2015 with the words "I stayed up
extra
late, makin'
it super fancy just for you" I knew right away that she not only had presented me with a
wonderful
hookline for
a song but also with a new life motto. So I gave it my very best to come up with a super
fancy song
just for
you. Turn up your speakers because here is Blank Page - Makin' It Super Fancy (feat. Rachel Nabors)
You, Me, Them, Us, Everybody, Everybody
May 2015
We were back at the wonderful Capitol Theater in Düsseldorf for the latest BEYOND TELLERRAND
experience. Such a
treat to serve the crowd my latest compositions. Naturally I had a brandnew theme song up my
sleeve.
Put on your
dancing shoes for here
it is.
Happy on a scale from zero to ten
March 2015
He is a master graphic designer, did album artwork for Lou Reed, the Rolling Stones, David
Byrne,
Aerosmith and
put together the art exhibition "The Happy Show" touring the US and Canada. I'm talking
about
Stefan
Sagmeister.
For ten years he's been researching the subject happiness. At the BEYOND TELLERRAND BERLIN
he told
us with his
lovely Austrian accent everything about his findings and conclusions. It comes as no
surprise that I
had to make
a song out of it.
His reaction to the
tune
"Hahahahahahah! This is hilarious! Thank you! Wonderful!" My guess: on a scale from zero to
ten this
is a
perfect ten.
Into the wild
February 2015
New stuff coming your way. I've just released two new instrumentals into the wilderness of
the www.
Let Me Explain,
it's
the Twilight
Traveller.
Electric current, a trigger in the head
November 2014
The location is set, the welcome speech rehearsed, the lights go down and the people come in:
yes,
everybody,
it's time for a new theme song. An artificial children's choir and a philosophical robot are
having
a
get-together with the architects of time. Check it
out.
Exciting days in Berlin
November 2014
What a show. BEYOND TELLERRAND again. This time, for the fist time in Berlin at the
marvelous
Admiralspalast in
the heart of the city. Sold out - this seems to be the new default with the BYConf these
days.
I had a wonderful spot on the stage where I could share my songs and spirit with everybody
perfectly. And boy,
did the music get me. It was awesome, I had such a great time, singing, dancing, shouting
and
getting busy with
my midi controllers - speaking of which: my very own custom made controller, build by a
genius kid
from my
neighborhood made it's stage debut.
My performance was rewarded by an overwhelming positive feedback from the audience. Thank
you guys.
You really
are a fantastic community. And thanks to all the write up writers for mentioning me, I'm
honored.
Let me give
you some examples: Lisa
Larson-Kelly, Eden Spiekermann, Denkwerk, Susanne Studt, Martin
Kohlhaas
We're nightly build
September 2014
Isn't that a wonderful name for a conference: nightly build. OK, I know it's a term in the
programming business.
But in my case it gets my poetic imagination going. I had the honor of being a part of this
brand
new conference
in Cologne.
This is where the fun starts
June 2014
As promised here is the first song of the wonderful BEYOND TELLERRAND 2014
conference. This time I didn't plan on remixing the
talks into
music. But master doodler Jon
Burgerman
personally asked
me for a take on his talk promising me to "sanction it". I was only familiar with that term
in
connection with
South Africa in the 80's. "No, no, he said, I mean I will promote it." I didn't have much of
a
choice after
that. So there you go: The
Only Way To Test A Theory
The Boy is back in town
May 2014
It's been a while. A year to be exact. Again I had the honor to be a part of the excellent BEYOND TELLERRAND
conference. It
was a sold out
show, woo hoo. Due to his busy schedule my partner Fred applied for a leave of absence which
I
graciously
granted. Yes, I'm such a nice guy. This means this time I did it all by myself.
Thank you for all the great compliments during the two days. Jon Burgerman kept asking: who is
that strange guy with the computer and
headphones by
the side of the stage. Someone finally resolved the confusion: he is sampling the speakers
and turns
it into a
live mix. So Jon walked up to me and kindly asked for a remix of his talk, promising to
spread the
word via his
various world wide accounts and thus guaranteeing fame and fortune. How could I
resist.
So that's what I'm working on right now. And to quote Mr Burgerman himself :
the only way to test a theory, is to do it!
2 songs / 7 days
August 2013
Excitement! We've just finished our album BEYOND TELLERRAND. Now we are ready to launch. Over
the
course of a
week we'll be putting two songs per day on the web via soundcloud. After that we'll make the
whole
album
available as a download.
2 songs / 7 days -> Let's go!
We are working feverishly on our first album. We had the pleasure of being a part of the BEYOND TELLERRAND
conference,
sampling the
speakers and coming up with ad hoc compositions. It's these tracks that we are finetuning
right now.
We are very
excited.
While the lyrical starting points are subjects like web, design and coding, the songs have
turned
into far more.
Now we are talking about life, the universe and our dreams. It's interesting how words have
their
own way when
they are mixed with music.
To wet your appetite we give you the recap video with a brandnew song of ours:
Please stay tuned for more to come.
Makes sense
December 2012
Having done the music for the titles of BEYOND TELLERRAND 2012 it made sense to round up the
experience by
providing the music to the recap video. Here it is.
Sounds and Music
November 2012
Marc Thiele, organizer of the wonderful BEYOND TELLERRAND conference called me up and asked:
would
you do the
music for the titles of the upcoming November conference? Who can resist Marc, who is one of
the
nicest guys on
the planet. Besides coming up with the music I also turned myself into a foley artist. So
much fun I
can tell
you.