18.08.2023 –, Marktplatz
Sprache: English
Grimbergs music is made with code in Tidal Cycles, which is based on the computer language Haskell. The music founds on loops of acoustic drum and percussion, synthesizer and guitar lines. Grimberg extracts these loops from old stuff of the 70ties and sometimes he creates them on his own. This enriches his tunes with a patina, a warm atmosphere of psychedelic scapes between ambient and progressive rock. Combined with choppy structures of contemporary pattern based music this turns out a unique hybrid of a fluent groove based sound which could be named "Algorithmic Krautrock".
Grimberg’s one pattern tracks are characterized by steady motoric beat influenced rhythms in a tempo range of 125-145 BPM. He performs with mostly prewritten code in Tidal Cycles, which is based on the computer language Haskell.
Grimberg adjusts and rewrites his code during his performance. The code is screened to the audience so that everyone can follow his livecoded musice during the performance. You could say, he performs like a code-DJ. Grimberg uses a hardware midi /cc controller as additional external gear.
Grimberg aka Axel Ganz was born in 1965 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. He is cofounder of Toplap Düsseldorf Node. Since 2018 he organizes together with Markus van Well music concerts. He also conducts introductory workshops to live coding, robotics, 3d-design and 3d-printing. Since 2019 he lives and works in both countries, Germany and Georgia, Caucasia.