Hainbach (musician)

Stefan Paul Goetsch was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, and grew up in Denzlingen at the edge of the Black Forest. He started playing piano at the age of six.{{Cite web|title=dublab|url=https://www.dublab.com/archive/shruti-kumar-lets-shake-on-it-w-guests-jen-dale-hainbach-flavia-ferreira-and-cenk-sayinli-12-16-19|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.dublab.com}} As a teenager he was programming his own computer games and played bass in a school band. Goetsch studied in Hamburg and now lives in Berlin with his family.{{Cite web|last=Berlin|first=Digital in|date=2020-04-03|title=Hainbach|url=https://www.digitalinberlin.de/hainbach/|access-date=2021-10-20|language=en-US}} Together with Andre Frahm and Jan Elbeshausen, he played in the new wave style band The Dance Inc. until they split up in 2009.{{Citation|title=Don't Tour With Vintage Gear| date=14 October 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSTd4HHgY9Q|language=en|access-date=2021-10-20}} The band released all of their songs on the Hamburg based label Audiolith Records.{{Cite web|title=The Dance Inc.|url=https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/202443-The-Dance-Inc|access-date=2021-10-20|website=Discogs|language=de}}

Under his alias Hainbach, he uses experimental music techniques with tape loops and nuclear test equipment. The British music magazine The Wire called his music "One hell of a trip".{{Cite web|last=Bailey|first=David Mittleman,Chal Ravens,Stewart Smith,Emily Pothast,Stephanie Phillips,Philip Clark,Claire Sawers,Beverly Glenn-Copeland,Ain|title=Issue 430 - The Wire|url=https://www.thewire.co.uk/shop/back-issues/issue-430.1|access-date=2021-10-20|website=The Wire Magazine - Adventures in Modern Music|language=en}}

Stefan Paul Goetsch started making music as Hainbach in 2010. Since then he has released albums on Opal Tapes, Lavender Sweep Records, Chase Bliss, Soil, Ultraviolet Light, Misc., Springbreak Tapes, SA Recordings, Gohan Tapes, Marionette, Seil Records and Alessandro Cortini's Limited Interest label.{{Cite web|title=Hainbach|url=https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/2491216-hainbach|access-date=2021-10-20|website=Discogs|language=de}} The music websites Bandcamp Daily and The Quietus praised his 2018 album The Evening Hopefuls and named Hainbach as one of "Ten Musicians Updating Electroacoustic Music for the 21st Century".{{Cite web|date=2018-05-16|title=Ten Musicians Updating Electroacoustic Music for the 21st Century|url=https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/new-electroacoustic-music-artists-list|access-date=2021-10-20|website=Bandcamp Daily}}{{Cite web|title=The Quietus {{!}} Features {{!}} Spool's Out {{!}} Spool's Out: Tape Reviews By Tristan Bath For February|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/21878-bad-guys-art-of-the-memory-palace-orange-milk-tape-cassette-review|access-date=2021-10-20|website=The Quietus|date=27 February 2017 |language=en-us}}

As an inspiration he named Béla Bartók, 1980s video game scores, Francis Bebey and Karlheinz Stockhausen.{{Cite web|last=Berlin|first=Digital in|date=2020-04-03|title=Hainbach|url=https://www.digitalinberlin.de/hainbach/|access-date=2021-10-20|language=en-US}}

In May 2022, he joined with YouTubers Cuckoo and Sam Battle of Look Mum No Computer to form a musical supergroup called Uncompressed.{{Cite web |last=Rogersonpublished |first=Ben |date=2022-05-26 |title=Look Mum No Computer, Cuckoo and Hainbach are forming "the world's first synth-nerd supergroup" |url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/uncompressed-synth-nerd-supergroup |access-date=2022-09-23 |website=MusicRadar |language=en}}

Stefan Paul Goetsch worked on more than 70 theatre plays as a composer, lyricist and live musician. Amongst those are the Staatstheater Hannover, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Theater Frankfurt, Theater Bonn and Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar.{{Cite web|title=Stefan Paul Goetsch|url=https://staatstheater-hannover.de/de_DE/ensemble-schauspiel/stefan-paul-goetsch.101653|access-date=2021-10-20|website=staatstheater-hannover.de|language=de}}

Hainbach wrote the music for Alexey Demidov's iOS game BrainConnect in 2016.{{Cite web|title=BrainConnect|url=https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brainconnect/id1070504791|access-date=2021-10-20|website=App Store|date=29 September 2021 |language=en-US}}

In 2017 he composed the score to the short-documentary Bruderkrieg (English title: War of Brothers) by Felix Moser and Julian Moser. The two brothers have collaborated with Hainbach on several music videos including the visual album to Light Splitting, which premiered on Fact Magazine{{Cite web|date=2020-08-07|title=Hainbach and Julian Moser discover microscopic psychedelia for AV album|url=https://www.factmag.com/2020/08/07/hainbach-julian-moser-light-splitting/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=Fact Magazine|language=en-US}} and was selected to Ars Electronica Festival in 2020.{{Citation|last=Moser|first=Julian|title=Hainbach - Light Splitting (Visual album by Julian Moser)|date=2020-07-10|url=https://vimeo.com/437123932|access-date=2021-10-20}} Hainbach scored the 2021 feature documentary Billions of Windows about the life of Stephen Wiltshire, directed by Sergey Stefanovich.{{Citation|title=Billions of Windows {{!}} Full Movie {{!}} HD {{!}} Genius Artist {{!}} Documentary {{!}} Drawings {{!}} 2021| date=28 November 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO0GokjEri8|language=en|access-date=2021-10-20}} He wrote the soundtrack for the 2021 feature documentary The One Who Runs Away Is the Ghost, directed by Qinyuan Lei. This is the second soundtrack collaboration with Moserfilm.{{Cite web|title=The One Who Runs Away Is The Ghost|url=https://moserfilm.com/the-one-who-runs-away-is-the-ghost|access-date=2021-10-20|website=Moserfilm|language=en-US}}

In April 2021, Hainbach created sounds for AVAR, an augmented reality app by the Estonian artist Taavi Varm, in collaboration with the Goethe Institut in Tallinn.{{Cite web|title=AVAR Kunstgalerie|url=https://www.goethe.de/ins/ee/de/kul/sup/www/avk.html|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.goethe.de|language=de}}

Hainbach performed at venues like Kantine am Berghain in Berlin,{{Cite web|title=ANTIME RECORDS — Berghain|url=http://www.berghain.berlin/de/events/2572/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.berghain.berlin|date=20 October 2018 |language=de}} Uebel & Gefährlich in Hamburg,{{Cite web|title=Freitag, 19.10. Bad Stream + Hainbach – Uebel & Gefährlich|url=https://hamburg.mitvergnuegen.com/2018/freitag-19-10-bad-stream-hainbach-uebel-gefaehrlich|access-date=2021-10-20|website=Mit Vergnügen Hamburg|language=en}} Blå in Oslo.{{Cite web|title=Blå {{!}} Klubb Vriompeis: Hainbach|url=https://www.blaaoslo.no/arrangementer/klubb-vriompeis/klubb-vriompeis-hainbach/|access-date=2021-10-20}}{{Citation|title=Hainbach live at Blå Oslo 2020| date=27 April 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMTjunJCVTo|language=en|access-date=2021-10-20}} Together with visual artist Nani Gutiérrez alias Orca, they have played festivals such as Die Digitale Düsseldorf and Up to Date Festival in Białystok.{{Citation|title=Hainbach x Orca AV @ Up to Date Festival 2020 Centralny Salon Ambientu| date=5 September 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmr2TmozhKo|language=en|access-date=2021-10-20}} His live performance concept Schlaufenzeit premiered at the 2021 Impuls Festival in Halle. It is based around German 1950s test equipment and a Hohner Electronium tube synthesizer.{{Cite web|title=schlaufenzeit X Hainbach {{!}} Impuls 2020|url=http://www.impulsfestival.de/2020/concert/schlaufenzeit-x-hainbach/|access-date=2021-10-20|language=de-DE}}

The sound installation Landfill Totems is a playable set of sound sculptures put together from obsolete medical and nuclear test equipment.{{Citation|title=Playable sound sculptures from obsolete test equipment| date=5 November 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsSlXiUOIBU|language=en|access-date=2021-10-20}} It premiered at PDNT Gallery Berlin in November 2019 and was later shown at Patch Point in Berlin-Kreuzberg.{{Cite web|title=Landfill Totems by Hainbach & Patch Point Reopening|url=https://www.patch-point.com/events/2020/7/4/landfill-totems-by-hainbach-amp-patch-point-reopening|access-date=2021-10-20|website=Patch Point|language=en-US}} The installation sound was also released as a full album and an accompanying sound library, with contributions by the composers KMRU and Eric D. Clark.{{Cite web|title=Spitfire Audio — Hainbach - Landfill Totems|url=https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/hainbach-landfill-totems/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.spitfireaudio.com}}

In October 2021 Hainbach's installation Destruction Loops was presented at the Impuls Festival in Halle. The festival had been defamed and attacked by the AfD, CDU politicians and other right-wing groups for years.{{Cite web|last=Montag|first=Andreas|title="Impuls" sendet Lebenszeichen|url=https://www.mz.de/kultur/www.mz.de/article/impuls-sendet-lebenszeichen-3258032|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.mz.de|language=de}} In a room-filling sound installation, collages of the worst comments, attacks and excerpts from the official AfD election program were slowly destroyed on self-destructing audio tape loops. The performance lasted 48 hours.{{Cite web|title=destruction loops X Hainbach {{!}} Impuls 2020|url=http://www.impulsfestival.de/2020/concert/destruction-loops-x-hainbach/|access-date=2021-10-20|language=de-DE}}

Hainbach created several virtual instruments and audio plug-ins. Fundamental, his app in collaboration with SonicLab, is a sound synthesis plugin, based on the workflow of electronic studios of the past.{{Cite web|date=2020-06-16|title=Fundamental: Hainbach The VST Plugin|url=https://www.gearnews.com/fundamental-hainbach-the-vst-plugin/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=gearnews.com|language=en-GB}}

In 2020, Hainbach teamed up with plugin creators AudioThing to release Wires, a Soviet wire recorder used by the East German military turned into a plugin.{{Cite web|title=Wires - Soviet Wire Recorder Echo Plugin (VST, AU, AAX) - Hainbach|url=https://www.audiothing.net/effects/wires/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.audiothing.net|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=2020-11-11|title=AudioThing and Hainbach team up to release Wires plugin|url=https://happymag.tv/hainbach-audiothing-wires/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=Happy Mag|language=en-US}} Things – Motor is a morphing rotor effect inspired by The Crystal Palace from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The original sound by Brian Hodgson and Delia Derbyshire can be heard on the soundtrack to the Doctor Who episode "The Krotons".{{Cite web|title=Things Motor - Morphing Rotor Effect (VST, AU, AAX) - Hainbach|url=https://www.audiothing.net/effects/things-motor/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.audiothing.net|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Krotons - Index|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/krotons/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}

Landfill Totems, a virtual instrument in collaboration with Spitfire Audio, was made of high-end medical, telecommunication and scientific research equipment.{{Cite web|title=Spitfire Audio — Hainbach - Landfill Totems|url=https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/hainbach-landfill-totems/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.spitfireaudio.com}}{{Cite news|last=Middleton|first=Ryan|title=How It Was Made: Hainbach - Landfill Totems|url=https://www.magneticmag.com/2021/04/how-it-was-made-hainbach-landfill-totems/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=Magnetic Magazine|date=12 April 2021 |language=en-us}}{{Cite web|date=2021-07-21|title=Meet the German Producer Making Music With Salvaged Nuclear Lab Equipment|url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/meet-the-german-producer-making-music-with-salvaged-nuclear-lab-equipment-hainbach/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=Pitchfork|language=en-US}} Moon Echo recreates the effect of Earth–Moon–Earth communication or "moonbounce".{{Cite web |title=Moon Echo - Moon Bounce and Experimental Delay - Hainbach |url=https://www.audiothing.net/effects/moon-echo/ |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=www.audiothing.net |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Fabio |first=Adam |date=2024-08-11 |title=Moonbounce Music |url=https://hackaday.com/2024/08/11/moonbounce-music/ |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=Hackaday |language=en-US}}

• As Sparks Fly Upward (2012)
• The Heat (2014)
• Ashes (2015)
• Shrines (2016)
• No Need for Rain (2017)
• Cello Pattern (2017)
• Violin Forms (2017)
• Alive Evil (2018)
• The Evening Hopefuls (2018)
• Codex (2018)
• Songs for Coco (2018)
• Ambient Piano Works (2018)
• Senses (2018)
• Old Suns (2019)
• Gestures (2019)
• Assertion (2020)
• Light Splitting (2020)
• Schwebungssummer (2021)
• Landfill Totems (2021)
• Home Stories (2021)

• Bruderkrieg (2017)
• Billions of Windows (2021)
• The One Who Runs Away Is the Ghost (tba)

• A Ritual (2014)
• Rhein (2016)
• Only the Rain Never Tires (2017)
• Dear Earth (2018)
• Impulsgenerator (2019)
• The Earth's Own Sighs (2020)
• Gaze Up at the Harvest Moon (2020)

• Acosta, EP (2017, with Kilchhofer)
• Bad Stream – "Transition", single (Hainbach rework)
• Hainbach / Todd Barton, EP (2019, with Todd Barton)
• Borrowed Water, album (2019, with My Panda Shall Fly)
• Hainbach / Morfbeats, album (2020, with Morfbeats)
• George Hurd & Hurd Ensemble - "Tethering Blind" / "All Falling Apart", single (2020, Hainbach Remix)
• "Jaybird", single (2020, with Bad Stream)
• "Wouter van Veldhoven – Wanderlied", single (Hainbach Rework) (2021)

• [https://www.hainbachmusik.com/ Official website]
• [https://www.youtube.com/user/hainbach101 Hainbach's YouTube channel]
• [https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/2491216-hainbach Hainbach discography] at Discogs

Category:German electronic musicians

Category:Musicians from Freiburg im Breisgau

Category:German male composers

Category:1978 births

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