Today i did a new version… the HALF FINAL VERSION…

http://www.rolfmaierbode.com/music/Finale-2010-Half-Final-Version.mp3

Hope that will get them germans going

Same Procedure as last “Meisterschaft” (EM)

I will post a preversion of a 2010 version of “Finale” here and will improve it everytime the german team wins

Its free for all and the best thing is: there are no vuvuzelas in it

http://www.rolfmaierbode.com/music/Finale-2010-pre.mp3

[ EDIT: looks like i will do another version next week ]

I have been a few days to paris, visiting the OFFF “international festival for the post-digital creation culture”

http://offf.ws/

To cut a long story short, it was great and extremly inspiring to see/hear some of the most creative people on earth… if you are interested in creative work, be sure to check out:

DVEIN (absolutely great motion design, but still three nice unspoiled-by-success guys)

NON-FORMAT (breathtaking designer duo and maybe the most entertaining hour of the while festival)

ART+COM (conceptually brillant and emotionally touching installations)

I am quite positive that i am heading into some very productive weeks now, as i am not only totally inspired by those world class creative people, but also have some time reserved for my own music work

This is how it looked inside

…with people…

..and just for the heck of it, three views of paris…

Buy the full album for only €8,99  @ iTunes:

www.itunes.com/rolfmaierbode

The Doepfer Dark Energy is a small semi-modular analog synthesizer and was one of my “self given” christmas presents… its a little box with knobs which really invite to modulate sounds… but its only monophonic (one “voice” only)

So i played around with a little sequence, plugged in the output of another sound-source and recorded five different tracks with heavy modulation…

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Then i added some “classic” progressive drums and percussion, some effects… i had an idea for a sample as well, which lead to the title “SECOND TIME”, but i wasnt pleased with it yet… but as an instrumental its quite enjoyable i think…

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The first shop (iTunes and others will follow) has put THIRTEEN STORIES online…

www.amazon.de/Thirteen-Stories/dp/B003B0KQ96

I´d really appreciate if some of you would write a customer review about THRITEEN STORIES there…
And for € 8,99 its a bargain for those who didnt want to pay the full price for a physical album as well…

Yesterday i was at the “Schallwelle Preisverleihung”, a music award by the small, but very active electronic music scene of germany. My part was a laudation for the “best artist 2009″.

I will listen to a lot of “EM” stuff the next days, for sure

It is like looking into my own past, the late 80s, as i was listening to the radioshow “Schwingungen” full of “classic” electronic music like Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Ashra and the like…

…to everyone!

And for those interested in fun stuff - a link to the 2009 x-mas video i did with a friend…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNd6Te_UX5s

Hi to all and sorry for the enduring silence… i am quite busy with several projects right now and it is realistic to say that the remixes wont be released this year…

On the other hand i had some really cool ideas for new 2010 stuff for ROLF MAIER BODE…