history
biography

new:  "my visual biography"

 

2005

- completing dignose studio
- recording album "21st century"

2004
- second live tour usa
- start setting up former can studio together with u-she

 2003
- live in tel aviv, jerusalem
- live in moscow and st.petersburg during the 300th anniversary
- release of "the new millennium" cd, double lp, maxi
- echo life time award for can

2002
- live in gdansk, poland
- live in japan
- first 3 video cd releases (live-homemade, war of tones, webcartoons) on dignose.com (live-homemade, war of tones, webcartoons)

2001  
- first 2audio internet releases on dignose.com (time and tide, linear city)

2000 
 -release "sunday morning" with u-she 
- release of  "la luna" 
- africana, first internet audio collaboration project completed
- echogirl, second internet audio collaboration completed
- la luna, first internet video collaboration
- remix of the string quartet "the death and the maiden" 

1999 
- can solo projects tour with gvoon-"magazine" 
- release of  "good morning story" 

1998 
- lecture about "music in the digital age" in the vienna music academy 
- release of "clash" live cd 

1997 
- live tour through the united states with u-she and dr.walker from air liquide 
- solo live appearence during popkomm in cologne 

1996 
- several still private remixes from can and from own material 
- live appearence with air liquide 

1995 
- "videospecial live" in russia 
- u-she : "time and tide"-cd. unreleased. being continued... 
- "earth" for the silence cd, released in japan 

1994

- first time on the catwalk during the igedo in duesseldorf for gesine moritz.
- participating in the " silence" project by ryoji ikeda (spiral edition japan)

1993 
- "moving pictures" cd. 

1991 
- collaboration on "the mermaid" with peter gabriel, annie lennox... 
- speaker in several airplays : goldberg variationen, dr.hulsbecks 
- mentale heilmethode ...(cds on rough trade) 
- "radio wave surfer" cd 

1990 
- video special live european tour 

1988 
- production of can "rite time" together with michael karoli 

1987 
- "krieg der toene" (war of sounds) video musical for german television. music and main role 

1986 
- "rome remains rome" cd 
- lectures in brazil about extraordinary ways in record production and how to overtake professionals with lo-fi. 
- collaboration with the german group trio 

1984 
- "the east is red" cd, which contains the chinese national anthem in a 'private symphonical' context. 

1982 
- several videos : jahresrueckblick 1982 (review of 1982), ode to perfume, cool in the pool, photo song .... 

1981-84 
- "a message to the record salesforce" for emi and virgin records 
- several collaborations with jah wobble, the edge, eurythmics, david sylvian, conny planck, eno, phew... 

1980/81 
- musician of the year in germany (sounds magazine) 

1977 
- abandoning from can. 

1968 
- initiating can  together with irmin schmidt.
- first composed sampled production "canaxis" 

1966-68 
- temp. music teacher, first session with the group remo four 

1963-66 
- studies under karlheinz stockhausen 

1960 
- first recording of own composition ("mellow out") in german radio 
-leader of a modern amateur jazz band 

1946
- set fire to a russian soldier camp - escaped to the american zone in germany 

1938 
- on march 24, 1938 borne in danzig (gdansk) as the true nephew of william tell

- teaching theology in a dog school in my former life

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