{2023} Epoché

Floating Door

D’après une estampe de Hiroshige

Stacey Steers, {2017} Edge of Alchemy

painted clouds

"FACE CREAM"

COSMOS                         //   A WORLD RELIGION

( after I watched a tutorial on youtube )

Animated cover for Personne Alienee EP "Power"

[Amanecer del Reino 2] | RPC | 2019

animation gifs! Some of my favorite scenes i did

:3

{2023} grief in grief out (July 12th - August 7th)

~*{ᵍᵒᵒᵈ ⁿᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵐʸ ˡᶦᵗᵗˡᵉ ᵍʳᵃⁿᵈᵖᵃ}*~ on the evening of July 12th, when i started working on this animation, my grandpa was admitted to the hospital with difficulties breathing. i only learned about this the following day and even later that he already had water in his lungs at that time. he had been in a bad shape since mid-March already, after his 88th birthday, suffering a severe phase of dementia after a physical illness. but after July 12th he was evidently living his very last days and in the early hours of August 7th he finally found rest. luckily, all the time, despite his episodes of dementia, he always recognized his family. he still smiled wearily at me past Saturday, though already unable to utter words; and the day before he still addressed me as his little sun, like he always used to do, and squeezed my hand.

Larry Jordan, {1965} Gymnopédies

i hope youare not looking at this if you are photosensitive prone to seizures <3

For a long time, it had been my dream to create an album that would not be limited to piano and the other few (mainly keyboard- and guitar-like) instruments that I was able to play. Ever since I first listened to Beirut’s „Gulag Orkestar“ - back in the autumn of 2008 when I decided to move from a small village in Bavaria to Berlin and dedicate my life to creating music - I fell in love with the sound of brass instruments and the way they can make a song sound melancholic and solemn and at the same time exuberant and joyful. A bunch of melodies I had written during the last years required exactly this kind of sound but it didn’t feel right to hire other musicians for my recordings, so I kept those pieces hidden in a drawer, not really knowing what to do with them, but sensing that their time would come.

Then came the pandemic and, being even more at home and anti-social than I used to be, I decided that it is time to finally buy a trumpet and use quarantine to practice it. I made good progress during the first weeks and - being motivated by this - decided to try and learn the basics of a few other instruments I had always admired from far: the cello, the violin and the clarinet. I spent hours in my small practice booth in my home studio (I hope my neighbours didn’t hear me!) and after around one and a half years, I felt ready to record an EP. It was probably the most fun experience I ever had recording music. Because I was a beginner on those new instruments, it felt like traveling back in time and recording my first songs together with my brother and teenage friends when I was just 15 or 16. It felt new and exciting, like walking through uncharted territory. For a few months, I was living in the middle of a big pile of instruments: spending the days surrounded by my piano, celesta, trumpet, cornet, euphonium, dulcitone, pump organ, clarinet, cello, ukulele, guitar, bass guitar, harp, accordion, keyboard, glockenspiel, snare- drum and tambourine. Everything ready to grab and record at any time - it was a very spontaneous and free process and I like to think one can hear the freedom and joy of creation in the final result.

Not everything was joy and happiness during this time, though. Just two weeks after I began to record the EP, Russia attacked Ukraine. Darkness crept into my life, with my wife being Ukrainian and suffering quite directly from the destruction of her home country, the fear and worry for her loved ones and the horrible atrocities committed against her people.

I would like to dedicate this EP to the Ukrainian people therefore - but when calling it „Odesa“, it is the pre-war Odesa, the beautiful Ukrainian Black Sea city with its pulsating life and joyful people, that I have in mind and that hopefully will return soon.