Five Minutes by mbp (michael brückner project)

44. FIVE MINUTES (late 2002)

This album owes it's title to a special "technique" I used while producing the tracks:

Within five minutes (!) I would "paint" a complete piece (sequences, chords, melodies, beats) in my MIDI editor without listening - just going by the visual "score" - resulting in a tune I otherwise wouldn't have invented.

If the outcome of that first step was interesting, I would develop it further, keeping as much as possible from the first sketch.

Interestingly, these "deaf flights" proved in most cases to work (if sometimes in somewhat strange ways).

Most tracks have a vague 80s feeling about them, due to the soft synths I used - for technical reasons that is:
because I worked on a slow computer back then - compared to todays standards - and only some already older VST synths would be ressources friendly enough to allow me to do the experiment at all. Incidentally, these were early Prophet and PPG clones which lend themselves easily to 80s style electronic sounds.

So, even if the album may sound like a slightly misguided attempt at 80s electro-pop, it's in fact experimental (as in "result of an experiment").

There's also one actual song, featuring the beautiful voice of Cilia di Ponte.

Born in Heidelberg, Germany, later settled down near Mainz.

Earns a living as a graphical designer and social worker.

Ambient and other electronica since 1992.

Extended back catalogue (more than 150 albums by end of 2024, number still growing).

Since 2007 offers his music in the internet, via the usual platforms.

Sometimes gets reviews + airplay.

Plays live now and then.

More is to come...

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Michael Brückner
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