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Rare Bird Productions

About Me


Starting with pianolessons when I was 18 years old. Loved the music of Kayak and tried to play some Pink Floyd at my pianolessons. I soon realised I would never become the next Rick Wakeman, so I focussed myself on music-theory, which my piano-teacher told me a bit about. She learned me some counterpoint (which can still be heard in my music), but since she herself wasn't that much interested in music-theory, she advised me to go and learn composing, which I never did. I tried some composing while I was at school, during the Dutch classes and just wrote notes on music paper. Got my first synthesizer and played together with a schoolmate on harmonium, recorder and vocals, and a friend of his on acoustic guitar. We never performed but just rehearsed occasionally.
Later I recorded lots of improvisation stuff and did one performance at a fashion-show in 1983.
When the computer came into my life and I got some music software in 1990, I really started composing. I wasn't limited to my own limited technique, since I got a faithfull musician in the computer.
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Member Since: 4/26/2006
Band Website: http://home.tiscali.nl/rarebirdproductions
Band Members: Renate Methöfer(Tieto Kone)
Influences: Hoelderlin, Isildurs Bane, SFF, Novalis, Kraan, Wim Mertens, Bo Hansson, Stern Combo Meißen, Lift (the DDR one), Bel Canto, Streetmark and lots of other artists I love. I don't know if all acts really have influenced my music, but it might be.
Sounds Like: If anyone can tell me, let me know.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New monniker

I've created a new monniker for my music. I'm still working on the first song, but you can find my new page here: www.myspace.com/astralis_project
Posted by on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:43:00 GMT

Memories of a distant past and other news

Still working on 'Memories from a distant past'. This time I was mainly busy adding some variation to the notes and mixing the intro. Besides I've worked a little bit on the synthesizer-sounds, so I c...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:22:00 GMT

New song

I'm currently working on a new song entitled 'Memories from a distant past', which will probably recorded under a new monniker. I'm using the same synthesizer-sounds I used for my last song, which is ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:48:00 GMT

No internet

Currently I don't have internet at home, so I can't bring much news. I really hate my internetprovider. I have moved to a bigger appartment and I'm not really active with my music,. Probably next week...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:15:00 GMT

Alleingang

Well, today I finally did something on my own music. I added some stuff to my latest piece entitled Alleingang. It's a piece for piano and synthesizer, with the left-hand playing piano and the right p...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:08:00 GMT

Hyperions Fate - New project featuring me.

At this moment I have formed a duo with Hans Günter Boddin, who transforms my midi-files into something new. We work together under the name Hyperions Fate and the music can perhaps best be compared w...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:28:00 GMT

Four new demo-songs

I've uploaded 4 new songs I wrote. These are just demo-versions, but I would like to hear some opinions on them. Personally I prefer 'Suzy plays the saxophone', which I think is one of my best songs.
Posted by on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:17:00 GMT

Suzy plays the saxophone (4)

Suzy plays the saxophone is allmost finished. I've added the chord-progression for the bridge and hope to finish it this weekend. It isn't ready for recording then, but the composing is done and ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:59:00 GMT

Computerproblems

Well at this moment I feel very annoyed. While working on my music things went wrong several times. The computer reset itself automaticly, next time it kept stuck while playing, so I had to do a reset...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:17:00 GMT

Suzy plays the saxophone (3)

The work on 'Suzy plays the saxophone' is going better. After creating a chord-progression it became easier to write a melody and things really are getting shape. I added a lot in the past days and to...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:37:00 GMT