Sutsche & Fello is my duo project with Axel Kochmeier (DJ akaak) from Hamburg.

He is part of the glorious sound system "Sutsche" who play techno maxis pitched down to 33rpm.

The "Sutsche" sound is sluggish, heavy, full of energy, and with a lot of air in between the slowed down beats.

In our shows, I fill in these gaps with Fello sounds.
Certain parts are pre-composed, others are totally free.
We mainly play in clubs, and we like to play loud.

Our first gig took place at the Kubik Club in Hamburg 2009, since then we played at Dockville Festival Hamburg, Berghain Kantine Berlin, Golden Pudel Club Hamburg, Fusion Festival, De:sonanz Festival Skopje, and more.

Springintgut is the name of my studio project since 2002. Electronic music in the studio and on stage are two different ideas to me. For the Springintgut records I like to record my instruments and treat them over hours in the machines, record them again and again, and find a few seconds of new sound in the end. It usually takes long until a track or song is finished. It's tricky to take this process onto a stage, that's why Springintgut live-sets are rare. I rather perform live with my Fello System, or as DJ.

What's that for a name?
I get alot of curiousity about this moniker. Especially from people from outside Germany. Well here's some background: "Springintgut" is a street name in the town of Lueneburg in Northern Germany. The word unintentionally blends the names of two fairytale characters, "Springinsfeld" and "Tunichtgut", which sums up to someone who does nothing of value and has his head in the clouds. Apart from that: I like the "spring in the guts" sound that it carries in English.

I play Electronica, Dubstep, Skweee and House records, and I like the breaks most.

Every first wednesday of the month I play with DJ Heiko H. Gogolin and guests at the Thier club in Hamburg.

We are the Pingipung Sound System.

I've composed the music for the radioplay "Blood Empire" by A.L. Kennedy, directed by Beate Andres, commissioned by the SWR in 2010. The Dracula plot reflects capitalism and hierarchy through the metaphor of the hunger for blood of a Vampire. I've used my "Fello" instrument in the studio for the first time. Here's the intro:

19century-accidents by springintgut

"Overdrive" is an interactive sound installation on the rooftop of the Jaaga buidling in Bangalore, India. I was invited for an artistic residence at Jaaga in winter 2010/11. They asked me to do a site specific sound installation. The traffic noise in bangalore is permenantly present in Bangalore that found that I was bound to use it for this work, instead of looking (probably with little success) for a sound proof room. Two mics capture the noise from the street on the ground level of the building. Two speakers in the car cockpit on the roof amplify the noise. As soon as someone touches the steering wheel and the pedals (Logitech Gamecontrollers) the sound gets processed, tweaked and distorted immediately. It's most fun to play during traffic jams when everybody hits their horns. Opened on Dec 19th 2010.

Video Link: Interviewed by Clemence Barrett during setup

MASKE is a movement sensitive interactive sound installation made with a big red punching bag with a Nintendo WiiMote inside. It's a cooperation with Andreas Stolze. The bag moves and swings when people hit it, obviously.  When the bag is hanging untouched in the room, a massive noise drone is sounding, which gets gradually calmer as soon as it's battled successfully. The harder it gets hit the less sound comes out of the speakers. The drone gives way for a more silent, harmonic ambience over which samples from Hamburg's infamous MC Jacques Palminger can be triggered. His diss towards the boxer Henry Maske is a brilliant piece of poetry, and it provides a motivation to the "audience" of this installation to keep on boxing and boxing, as they don't want to miss any of these samples.
Premiered at Dockville Festival, Hamburg, 2009.
Shown at Golden Pudel Club Hamburg, during Pudel Art Basel 2009.

Loop Kitchen is an interactive sound installation in which two Gamepads are presented in a 5.1 surround sound space. Two players can play various sounds, create patterns and harmonies and move them in the room. It's a video game without a screen, just believe your ears and gestures, and nobody will lose. Premiered at Fusion Festival, Lärz, 2009.

The same configuration was used for a series of duo improvisations together with drum'n'bass producer Bassrk. At this time it was called "Querschlaeger" (German for Ricochet), and we played with two Gamepads, one for the beats, one for the bass. We also played one gig in the Klangdom of the ZKM in Karlsruhe: In this venue we've even had the opportunity to rotate the sounds with the sticks on 42 speakers!

I did the sound design for "Stumbling Bulb", a video installation by Max Fey und Jan Gassmann. Their project was a combination of a 360 degree ceiling projection and sculpture objects which consist of discarded TV sets. Video snippets contributed by international artists interfere with subway ride simulations and recordings of a cloudy summer sky. Sounds confusing, and that's what it's about, confusion and distraction through media. It's a very poetic, subtle work to which I composed a 5.1 soundtrack, premiered at HFF school in Munich in 2008. Alot of footage on this work can be found in their archive.

"Noise Cabin" is a sound installation for a concert space, which Jan St. Werner developed in cooperation with Florian Grote and me in 2006. Many small loudspeakers are hidden in the venue during a music festival. In between the shows (by Akufen, Junior Boys, Dani Siciliano, Jame Lidell etc.) the "Noise Cabin" would reflect the sonic input recorded from the recent concert. A chaotic echo of what has sounded before fills the room, without a defined spatial origin, and hides again as soon as the next act starts to play. The visual installation frameworks have been developed by Diango Hernandez, Rosa Barba and Anne Pöhlmann. Premiered at 5daysoff Festival, Melkweg club in Amsterdam in 2006. An adaptation for a piano in public space has been shown at the Weltbühne in Hamburg in 2006.

"Leierkasten" is a mechanical hurdygurdy with a digital heart.
A camera/ jitter interface translates coloured drawings on a blank CD surface into sound. Everybody can draw their own images on the white CD. The sounds can then be played by turning the crank of the machine, bleeping arpeggios refer in tempo to the speed of the crank, the sound output fades out as soon as there is no movement. Finally, the music can be burnt onto this CD and everybody may take it home. "Leierkasten" is a cooperation with Florian Grote, Corine Wiesenbach and Jan Torge Claussen. Premiered at Hyperkult14 Festival, Leuphana Universität Lueneburg, 2004.