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Frozen branches on Polaroid

Thursday 29th, January 2026 09:40 PM

livestream: ambioSonics session 169 - a nice one

Tuesday 13th, January 2026 06:15 PM

Yesterdays livestream came again from the Glockenwerkstatt in Munich downtown and featured a selection of the ambioSonics collective - this time featuring several synths, drum machines and a wind-controller... [>>>]

Red sky like i've never seen before: aurora borealis over Canada

Saturday 15th, November 2025 12:04 AM

During the night from tuesday to wednesday this week i saw a strong red colour northern-light/aurora borealis over Canada like i have never seen before; on the photos there is also a half moon and some... [>>>]

Livestream: Neon Frequencies from Bikini Mitte Bar, Munich - Session #12

Friday 14th, November 2025 04:46 PM

Yesterdays livestream of the Neon Frequencies Analog & Acoustic Jam Session live from the Bikini Mitte Bar in Munich was pretty nice from the musical side and from the tech-part in regards to the streaming... [>>>]

@electronic_music_munich @muenchen.social - live-event announcements via Mastodon

Sunday 2nd, November 2025 11:38 AM

Parallel to the mailinglist promoting live events in the greater Munich area the is now a Fediverse-Account which will about mirror what is announced on the mailinglist The profile for this account is... [>>>]

Update: guestlist for local Munich area electronic-music-events

Wednesday 29th, October 2025 01:40 PM

Update: we will choose another mailing-service provider With a growing somehow underground electronic-music-scene in the Munich, Bavaria, area i'll try to establish an email - invitation-/guest-list... [>>>]

Makertube-livestream - german based Peertube service - in parallel to Youtube

Sunday 26th, October 2025 05:56 PM

Last thursday i made a livestream for the 11th Bikini-Mitte-Bar-Experimental Session, and this time streaming in parallel to a german-based Peertube service called Makertube. [this video on makertube Except... [>>>]

New toys: Polaroid i-2, Fuji Fotorama 880, Polaroid Flip...

Tuesday 27th, May 2025 11:09 PM

...a couple of new toys found their way into my possesion, amongst others the new Polaroid i-2the even newer Polaroid Flipthe brandnew Instax Wide Evoand the outdated, should not work anymore Fuji Fotorama... [>>>]

Digital 4-Track Collaboration - May 25 Edition!

Thursday 24th, April 2025 08:59 PM

While the very first digital 4-track collaboration i organized at sequencer.de - the april 25 edition - is still running, we are already preparing the second iteration of of the digital 4-track collaboration,... [>>>]

Latest:

HWJ* - 'What if?' - Jam (on Youtube)

*HWJ = Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge; FAWM = february album writing month, https://fawm.org

My FAWM 2026 activities

Thursday 29th, January 2026 08:52 AM

[FAWM will start in february 1st, 2026, and end on the 28th of that same month - in this post on my blog i am continuously tracking my involvement] Digital 4 Track Challenge https://fawm.org/forums/3538 Status:... [>>>]

Two b&w-Polaroids from may...

Tuesday 17th, June 2025 09:49 PM

Amongst many other photos that i like the following two have a vibe that i like - each in another way even while displaying the same object: [>>>]

HWJ - old, new, borrowed, blue - weekend challenge contribution

Monday 31st, March 2025 03:53 AM

This weekends Hardware Jams challenge revolves around the words ‚old, new, borrowed, blue‘. As i was not near any music-equipment this weekend i tried to solve the task by experimenting with ‚things‘;... [>>>]

HWJ - Doom - weekend challenge contribution

Tuesday 25th, March 2025 10:18 AM

Last weekends Hardware Jams Challenge was described in just one sentence: ‚DOOM is the theme for this weekend ????‘ This is what i made of the prompt: [>>>]

HWJ - 303 trippy acid day - with video-synth-video

Monday 3rd, March 2025 02:13 PM

The Hardware Jams Challenge for march 3rd revolved around the Roland TB-303 as it is 303-day! The challenge now is to make a ‚trippy acid track‘ - so i used the closest to an 303 i have available, an... [>>>]

...new toy: Videomancer by LZX Industries!

Thursday 22nd, January 2026 03:31 PM

Today the mail-lady dropped off a long awaited parcel - the LZX Industries Videomancer! I hope to be able to include this into my live-streaming-setup for the music-livestreams i am invited to do, like... [>>>]

Found: HexBoard 1.2 MIDI Controller

Thursday 17th, October 2024 10:48 PM

An interesting find is the HexBoard, a hexagonal midi-keyboard, 3D-printed with open source OS. The assembled thing might be a little pricey at $569 (time of this writing) but still very tempting. More... [>>>]

Daisy-Eurorack-DIY-projects

Thursday 16th, March 2023 09:51 AM

As i have a few Daisy-Seeds in my drawer i was curious what easy projects are out there - and i found a few; some that i might try to make in the near future are collected here: benjiaomodular MiniVerb... [>>>]

More eurorack DIY-modules finished - and others prepared

Monday 6th, March 2023 09:32 AM

Last week saw the completion of the on-off switcher module: https://charlyhotel.de/diy/?post_id=162and the 5V-to-1V CV converter module: https://charlyhotel.de/diy/?post_id=163 Also i decided to build... [>>>]

Tackled 3 DIY-projects - not bad!

Saturday 25th, February 2023 12:50 PM

Ha! - last week was a pretty good week in regards to the huge pile of DIY-projects waiting to be worked on (successfully circumnavigated the much more conflict-loaden 'waiting to be finished'):the Fonitronik... [>>>]

NINJAM & ELK.live - live jams online

Thursday 19th, January 2023 10:18 AM

For years i am a huge fan of NINJAM - a freeware collaboration-server to enable online jams of musicians located all over the world. NINJAM is made by Cockos Inc., famous for their REAPER-DAW - which... [>>>]

behind the scenes: video-tech concept of ambioSonics session 140

Saturday 17th, December 2022 01:16 PM

For session 140 we developed an alternate concept for the video-stream and the live-video: the livestream would be fixed on mainly one, perhaps two camerasthose cameras would be front and sometimes from... [>>>]

Rutt-Etra scanline manipulation

Thursday 22nd, September 2022 12:15 AM

[article is work-in-progress] While researching for a discussion on modular video synthesis in a sequencer.de-thread i stumbled - for the first time consciously - upon Rutt-Etra Vector Synthesis; i had... [>>>]

…it‘s the details…

Thursday 26th, May 2022 03:42 PM

Another endless story is the development of the next Streaming & Visuals Setup. It often looks like i am doing a huge step forward, and then the details kick in: there are 3mm of space missing between... [>>>]

Access a TSOP50-chips pins with soldering points

Monday 10th, November 2025 09:04 AM

Inspired by a post on the scanlines.xyz-forum which shows a flex-PCB-design that allows for much easier circuit-bending of video-gear which uses TSOP50-chips i made my first attempt to design a PCB by... [>>>]

GLOOP Eurorack module - quickie

Thursday 21st, November 2024 12:09 PM

Today i received the GLOOP-module DIY-kit from Thonk (176GBP kit + 7GBP shipping + 55 Euro customs+handling) and had a few minutes to solder it already: https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/cutlasses-gloop/ Soldering... [>>>]

Eurorack - cable-management-guides - 3D-printed

Thursday 9th, March 2023 07:40 PM

A lot of my stuff contains 3D-printed parts. As i am not a trained CAD-user i rely on the childrens-toy Thinkercad (https://www.tinkercad.com), a online webbased tool for simple CAD-developments. As of... [>>>]

Eurorack - bunch of buffered & passive multiples: done...

Thursday 9th, March 2023 07:36 PM

Today the shipment of the tkilla64-multiple-PCBs reached me - and as is was close to my soldering iron i just went ahead and built them: [>>>]

Eurorack switched passive multiple - done

Monday 6th, March 2023 07:01 PM

As all the tools were ready anyway and all the parts i needed for this quicky also i built a passive switched multiple today: This module basically provides two busses onto which connections can be... [>>>]

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