Ralf: -You have to face yourself to come to the point where you really think about what it is that you want to do. Not to hide behind too many notes or to hide behind . . .
Florian: -. . . the speaker cabinets.
Ralf: -. . . to open up to the simplest things.
Florian: -We don't like these sort of bombastic sounds, we prefer more refined sounds.
Ralf: -It took years of development, step by step, for us to get to what we are doing now. And it will take more steps to do something else.
Florian: -We started out with acoustic instruments. We had a lot of friends who have played with us in the past, and so life goes on and some of them leave and others join. We finally came to a point where we decided that we didn't want these loud drum kits on stage with us. Then for a year we played with just the two of us. We used a rhythm machine but this was not entirely satisfactory. It would be good for one piece but too boring to use for a whole evening, and so we decided to build electronic drums because we wanted to have rhythms in our music. We designed and built them and are now playing with two electronic percussionists in the group.
Ralf: -It gives a lot of possibilities to change the sound because electronic music is created out of white noise, so you can take whatever frequencies you like, or you want, for your particular concept of music - and with these electronic instruments you can pick out the frequencies that suit you. Like a painter, you can choose whatever colors of the spectrum you like for that projection of your painting.
Florian: -We are working with a painter now who can realize some of our optic visions.
Ralf: -We don't think of ourselves as musicians, but rather as people who create out of the different media or ways of expressing yourself, whether it is painting, poetry, music, or even film. The ideal is to communicate to people.
Florian: -We don't really know where this whole thing will drift, perhaps more to optics or to words.
Ralf: -We are waiting for the video disc, which will soon be available in Germany. This will probably be the next step we want to go on to because we have so many visual ideas along with the music and they both influence one another.

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