Einzelganger

 SOTU (Sounds of the Underground) is an annual alternative music festival in Amsterdam. SOTU has a "passion for genre bending sound and performances". This results in a broad festival program – you can listen to noise, punk, folk, improv, rave, avant-garde and electronics.The festival celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2021, and this edition was completely online due to Covid-19.My contribution was streamed from my living room. I hope you enjoy it.

 Drone based on old material made for a stage play back in 2004. (© 2020 Th. Geritz)

A podcast exclusive episode. A seascaped drone of almost an hour.

An episode from the archive. The original piece, l'Alph art (1987), was a improvisation done with one monophonic analogue synthesizer (a Korg Sigma) and originally released on a compact cassette-album called Unique (1988) .This recording is one of two digitally reworked versions dating from 2008.

This drone is made for one of my projects; The Freazzp society. The Freazzp society is collective making jazz with some rap, rock and electronics. This drone is made for my colleques as a basis for improvising.But I think it's kind of nice and very 'Einzelganger-like' on its own merits.Enjoy.

New music for new chances. I'm proud of this one.

Recorded on April 29th 2016 during a huiskamerconcert (living room concert) organized and hosted by Radboud Mens in Rotterdam. I really enjoyed that evening.

Listen to 34 - introduction for more info.

I made Chion-in because I got inspired by the recordings made by Ollie Hall (visit his site at http://www.binauraldiaries.co.uk/) in the Chion-in temple in Kyoto, Japan. I asked him if he objected to me using his recordings. Luckily he thought it was an great idea. So here it is. And we both like it.

Dégénérés supérieurs is a medical term for people with great intelligence and mental capacity but with degenerated moral standards. You could say the medical term for the classic 'mad scientist'.

Oxymoron was produced using my very first keyboard that I bought somewhere around 1980. Switching it on again after decades provided me with some great noises and glitches. The voice was taken from an audio captcha. I like the atmosphere.

I tend to dream to much and act to little. But this track was made pretty fast.

A phosphene is an entoptic phenomenon characterized by the experience of seeing light without light actually entering the eye.

A feeling of vague longing.Build around a dirty field recording of a saxophone player, Paris city sounds and samples of a prepared piano.

Saudade is an improvise drone.Saudade is a Portuguese word which describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for something that one was fond of and which is lost. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return.

An unanticipated and fast produced track that I did with the enthusiastic help of Nisa Asokan (EMPremix). Check out the original field recording that started this little project here on SoundCloud.com/EMPremix.

The poem "La Mort Des Amants" (1857) was written by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) and spoken by Mélanie Skriabine. To download the uncompressed version visit my SoundCloud page.

I produced a lot of audio sketches, odd tracks and other bits and pieces. On their own they're just lonely ideas, but some are worth putting together. A few pages from my audio sketchbook so to speak. So here's the second collection. It was previously released on my MixCloud page.

Capgras Syndrome is named for its discoverer, the French psychiatrist Jean Marie Joseph Capgras. The person's primary delusion is that a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor, an exact double, despite recognition of familiarity in appearance and behavior. The patient may also see himself as his own double.

Einzelganger's Christmas podcast for 2011: The 3rd part of Saudade. Saudade is a Portuguese word which describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for something that one was fond of and which is lost. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return.Saudade 3 is a short straight forward drone with a little more agression than usual.