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About me
I produce genres like dubstep that have been created in the digital realm, however I play them on analog instruments with my hands. However I digitalized many of them so I don’t have to carry all of them around all the time. I also like to produce and mix with digital versions of analog hardware. In the tradition of dub music I am arranging songs live on a mixer that I recorded digitally from analog instruments. Hence the name Arnology that is also an analogy to my real name Arne.
I play Drums, Keyboards, Bass, Guitar, Percussion, Melodica and Flute. But if I would have spent nearly as much time practicing these instruments as I was producing music, I would probably be a pretty good musician. For years I was struggling with technology and was always pursuing the dream that I could produce a song how I would switch on an instrument and start playing. It always took way too long to get the ideas out of my head into the computer, and ended mostly in fixing stuff and technical fumbling until the idea was gone.
I am way better with improvisation than learning actual songs. So I spent the recent years to optimize my setup, so I can just switch it on and start playing right away, looping one instrument after the other and then being able to dub my own loops on a mixer. This is how I quickly generate new song ideas and how I actually produce my songs (including some magic of course).
Biography
I was surrounded by music since I came to life.
My mother was working as a radio DJ and music analyst, so she was listening to a lot of music at home.
I learned to play the piano from the age of 6 and drums from age 10.
Since the year 2000 I am recording and producing music on mixing consoles and computers.
- I studied music therapy in 2006 and was trained in piano, guitar, percussion, music theory and music psychology (among a lot of psychology and therapy specific things)
- In 2008 I was elected head of Villa Nachttanz, a club in Heidelberg. There I organized concerts and festivals, also working as a stagehand, sound technician and live mixer
- In 2012 I was doing an internship at Ballsaal Studios in Berlin. I worked on a few songs with Peter and got good feedback on my ears, workflow and ideas
- 2013-2017 I was freelancing for sinnwerkstatt media agency as a composer and sound designer.
- 2018 I started the interactive multi-media project “project-earth”
- 2015 I am DJing on private and public events
- 2021 I started co-organizing and playing music on ecstatic dances around Heidelberg
- All this on the side, since 2017 I mainly helped organizations with their agile self-organization on S3lf.Org
Bands
- Enter No Plane [Ska-Punk] (Drums) 2002 – 2004
- Goja [Songwriter] (Drums) 2006 – 2007
- Buddha Sentenza [Psychedelic Stoner Rock] (Bass) 2007 – 2009
- Aether Exploration [Psychedelic Funk] (Drums) 2010
- Rasayana [Psychedelic Stoner Rock] (Drums) 2012 – 2014
- Black Sadhu [Stoner-Doom] (Bass, Synth, 2nd Guitar) 2015 – 2020
- Zündung [Psychedelic Stoner Rock] (Bass) 2024 – present
Soundsystem
I am hosting Dub / Dubstep Sessions with Man a Lion Soundsystem