Music

Apart from art and video games, music is another passion of mine.

I always admired people who are able to play an instrument. Unfortunately I never attended a musical education.

In 2002 I fulfilled one of my big dreams by buying an E-GUITAR. I learned to play along some popular riffs from songs of Metallica, White Stripes and so on by tabulators out of the web... But then I found out, that my hands are not trained to do complicated gap-grips and the guitar is not an easy instrument in my eyes because it is not 'intuitive'. The notes are not lined up next to each other. Sometimes you have to hold this strings to play an accord and the other time you have to strike others with your plectrum. I soon had to face that this is not MY instrument.

A few years later, in 2008, somehow a small six-holed flute called TIN WHISTLE catched my attention. A professional whistle is available for around 10 Euro, so I decided to give it a try. This was surely one of the best decisions in my life! I startet with a nice black Feadóg D whiste and found out that I´m much more talented in playing this kind of instrument. I had experiences of success very quickly - for example I managed to play 'Amazing Grace' already at my very first day of practice. More tunes followed before long. Might sound cheesy but whistling enriched my live... it´s fun, it´s relaxing... a source of energy and a perfect way to come down after a stressing day of work.

Soon a second tin whistle modell followed, a Clarke with wooden block and smoky sound. Then a BAMBOO FLUTE, and later a LOW WHISTLE (key low D) both of them are played the same way like tin whistles / penny whistles. TRANSVERSE FLUTES joined my small collection and in summer 2009 I made first experiences with a SOPRAN RECORDER.

For my 28th birthday I plessed myself with a very special gift: a MEDIEVAL BAGEPIPE from the experienced German crafter Güntzel. To a bunch of celtic / irish / scottish / folk songs I already learned on my whistles I now added medieval songs, most of them out of the 'Codex Verus' - a collection of traditional songs from the past centuries.

My next toy was a HULUSI. This is a traditional free reed wind instrument from South-China. You blow into a gourd where three bamboo pipes are attached. The center pipe has finger holes, the others are drone pipes which can easily be activated or silenced if wanted. The sound is simply beautiful ... very pure ... like a clarinet.