The name of my bionicsounds studio as “Unique Sound Research Room” is of course to be understood as a homage to the unique Frank Zappa, who, with his very typical humor, built his studio in Los Angeles “Utility Muffin Research Kitchen”. Well, I’m not a die-hard Zappa fan. And I don’t have any “idols” in the direct sense either, but rather take many things that come my way as a source of inspiration. So I see Zappa as an extraordinarily creative musician, because in his compositions he didn’t exclude any sounds, no matter how crazy, and he knew no limits in his music. In many projects, overcoming supposed limits is also my path – although I set the craziness of some sounds in a completely different way than Zappa did in his works.

When almost all the big studios had to close when the pandemic broke out in order to think about how operations could run during this phase, I had to think about how I could continue recording music. Getting together with other artists in the usual way wasn’t possible either, so I decided to make a solo album and produce it in my own studio. A number of wonderful partners from the music industry supported me, and so I was able to bring my bionicsounds studio to an absolutely professional level. My sound research room was born, and I experience new surprises here every day.

I will write about the equipment/gear I use from time to time in my blog “About making music”. There you can read which instrument or device I use exactly and why. Your fellow musicians out there all know that. In fact, most music listeners rarely realize that one set of drums sounds very different from another, or that one guitar plays very differently than another. Or why exactly this one bass is best suited for this one song. I would like to try not only to discuss the technical side of equipment in the blog posts, but also to describe things for the music listeners and fans. I can say in advance: It’s always about the character of a timbre that an instrument possesses, and it’s always about conveying the emotions that music can and should evoke in the best possible way. How does it feel and sound to make music? And how does it feel to watch someone make music? You can tell me that! And how does it feel to take the music in and really hear it at the end? We can tell each other that. Right?