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These are my visual works.

Since my profession is actually making corporate films and 2D-animations this page should rather be the significant part of this website. But life has various routes to offer and I chose the one leading to sound, or at least my heart did so. So when I have spare time I am also working on music videos or av-installations, sometimes with the help of very talented people working as 3D-artists, directors of photography, actors or free artists.

Here you will find a selection of visual works –  some are animated graphics, some are filmed. It is quite difficult to develop visual scenery for abstract music. So there are lots of different ideas to be found here. And still there is a lot to do for the upcoming projects … when there is some spare time.

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Xmod

Release Date: February 2022

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All graphics controlled by individual sound sources. Music and motion design by Thomas Burkhardt. Full music video in 21:9 | 4K | 60fps.

Phase Off

Release Date: February 2022

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All graphics controlled by individual sound sources. Music and motion design by Thomas Burkhardt. Full music video in 21:9 | 4K | 60fps.

Formant Aggressor

Release Date: February 2022

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All graphics controlled by individual sound sources. Music and motion design by Thomas Burkhardt. Full music video in 21:9 | 4K | 60fps.

Frau erblickt gelang- weiltes Pferd

Release Date: May 2021

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This is a surreal music video of “Frau erblickt gelangweiltes Pferd” taken from the album “Eldorado”. A bored horse is hypnotizing a woman on a ranch.

Mimik

Release Date: August 2020

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This is the third project of my sound to light installation series. Mimik deals with basic facial expressions. Each expression alters with the given ambience that the lights offer. There are four lights that react to four sound sources which are provided by a modular system. So the sound is literally playing the light. Thanks to the four actors of 12 Stufen Theater.
Please also check out: www.12-stufen-theater.de

Faust

Release Date: March 2020

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This video is an a/v installation performed with my friends of Puppenschiff. At first there is an improvised music piece I have performed with my portable modular system. The sound is driving four lights that react to the amplitude of the outputs. The two puppet artists performed a short version of Faust from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with four puppets. So in the end we have created a vanguard version of a classical masterpiece.
Please also check out: www.puppenschiff.de

Klang-Geometrie

Release Date: October 2019

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This video is an installation based on an improvised music piece I have performed with my modular system. Everything you see is placed and arranged by hand. No CG. The lighting is based on a formation of four lights that react to the four main sounds used in the music piece (Drum 1, Drum 2, Voice, Noise and sampled Field Recordings).

Vactrol Berserk

Release Date: May 2018

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Taken from my EP “Analog Computation”.

Spross

Release Date: April 2016

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This track is taken from the EP “Mikrodynamik”. Motion design was created by Fabian Pietrek.

Nothing but Data

Release Date: March 2016

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This track was taken from the album “Supervision”. The visual design was made by Fabian Pietrek.

Leitsystem

Release Date: February 2015

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Taken from the vast 64 track compilation “OKTANT”.

Hypnose

Release Date: July 2013

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Taken from the vast 64 track compilation “OKTANT”.

Platzangst

Release Date: May 2013

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Music video for the “Kontakt Panorama” EP that hasn’t been released, yet. It was created in collaboration with auf drei, wasted frames and 12 Stufen Theater.

sysEx

Release Date: April 2013

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sysEx was one of my first animated 3D-graphics for sound. This video is highly hypnotic. Be careful.

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