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Tim & Struppel
Tim & Struppel (Tim Bencker & Valentin Ackva) are a Leipzig based DJ Duo who met at the first open air they set up together with friends.
They started out organizing open airs and then cofounded the event crew “Spielplatzkollektiv”, which has become part of the electronic music scene in Würzburg. They are Residents at the beautiful club Waldschänke Dornheim and throw several club nights there.
As DJs Tim & Struppel love harmonic mixing ‐ playing melodic and thoughtful Mixes, combining elements of downtempo and house into their energetic and emotional sound. Tim & Valentin make it an effort to raise awareness for a thought‐ and respectful party‐life. Trained ears team up with their experience as event planners to create a musical and personal journey: playing together with the crowd.
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Tim Solo
Dronedancing at Färgfabriken, Stockholm
The goal was to create a generator that could be running for hours and was basically generated by the software, with the dialing of course being done by me. A great amount of time was spent researching and figuring out how I would approach this project. There were three big challenges:
- creating a sensible input of notes, which triggers
- instruments which evolve and never sound quite the same, while
- being interesting and sounding good
The point here was that I wanted the piece to be random but at the same time sound cohesive and musical. So I set out, to design a MIDI-Device that would randomly generate notes, while at the same time being in key. The basic chain was the following: input of one note -> high level randomisation on a semitone and octave level -> putting of-key-notes back onto the scale -> low level randomization to create interesting "of key" variations. This Midi Device I then copied to different channels / Synthesizers, with some channels picking up signals from different points of the "lead" channels, to create the appeal of instruments playing together. Of course the devices were finetuned and extended quite a bit, to fit the role of the different instruments, i.e. to create duo and tritones as well.
So far the devices could only process pitch, what was missing was the length of the notes and when and if notes were going to be played. So I created a great amount of Midi Clips, each with one note and different lengths of the notes and breaks. The lengths of the clips where (mostly) whole and prime numbers. I figured choosing prime numbers would allow for the most combinations, with whole numbers assuring some rythm in the timing.
https://soundcloud.com/timundstruppel/room/s-PZLEd
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