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I have been working with museums, collectors & publishers through my own vintage photography business for the last 7 years, so I've been far to busy to return to composition. I expect I'll write again, but probably only dense complex Sample Based Composition works like 'Bosch Erotique' , 'Demon Est Deus Inversus' & 'Raga Rodentia'. But who knows? Anything is possible.I actually was working on two SBC pieces before and during the VR years : a Cello Sonata & a short Symphony. Both were gradually cannibalized to supply VR songs with samples & riffs. When I do return to composition, I'll work exclusively on SBC pieces like Awaken & DEDI - they are my favorite pieces! Noises in the Wall was supposed to be the last VR album - an instrumental collection of unreleased songs, but the labels that would have carried it died out during 1996-8, so it was shelved. I lost interest in fighting the music industry by then, so I didn't pursue it.I love ragtime - Scott Joplin & would love to work on that in my old age. I generally only listen to music made from 1920-45 (I'm a huge Big Band fan - as you can tell from Ether Bunny, especially cartoon kings Raymond Scott & Carl Stalling). Hopes this explains my madness somewhat.Hopefully, I'll find a way to reissue my music someday, as well as release the 3 VR & 2nd EB CDs of material sitting in a box for the last decade.Daniel Vahnke

NEWS: these unreleased tracks will still show their historical lineage. Please don't mistake these tracks to be an updated VR sound - only the missing jigsaw pieces from pre-existing compilations. They are inextricably linked with the Clockseed & Gravity's Rim tracks (they were originally set aside for the never-realized Pillow project). Someday, I'll figure out the original sequence of composition (the so-called opus record) & that should explain the difference/similarities of everything. It is a bit of a blur to me in my memory. These tracks were composed very rapidly in the mid-90's. I am going to inquire into the possibility & expense of new recordings from the original digital archive. That will greatly improve the clarity of the music. Wish me well! Thanks for your support. Daniel Vahnke


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Ether Bunny is a project of Daniel Vahnke. It is more of a big band sound, using the Sample Based Composition style. Much of the music can be seen as influenced by Carl Stalling (of Warner Brother's cartoon music).


Dilate is an ambient soundtrack by Vampire Rodents keyboardist Victor Wulf.

Cyclos (Hypnotic/Cleopatra, 1996) Octagon (Hypnotic/Cleopatra, 1997)

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Member Since: 27/07/2006
Band Members: Daniel Vahnke - Main Collaborators: Victor Wulf & Andrea Akastia.
Influences: Classical avant-garde (atonal). Gyorgy Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki, Luigi Nono, Witold Lutoslawski, Mauricio Kagel, Conlon Nancarrow, Luciano Berio, Harry Partch, Tod Dockstader, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Toru Takemitsu, Iannis Xenakis, Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Roach, Raymond Scott, Carl Stalling, Milt Franklyn, Fred Astaire, Al Jolson, Benny Goodman, Big Bands.
Sounds Like: War Music (Dossier, 1990)Premonition (VR Productions, 1992)Lullaby Land (Re-Constriction, 1993)Clockseed (Re-Constriction, 1995)Gravity's Rim (Fifth Column, 1996)Ether Bunny: Papa Woody (Fifth Column, 1996)Children's big band cartoon jazz from the creator of the VAMPIRE RODENTS .
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Daniel Vahnke - Tibetan Reich

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Posted by on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:55:00 GMT

Daniel Vahnke - Sample Based Composition: A Brief Commentary

   
Posted by on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:39:00 GMT

Premonition Lyrics

Premonition Lyrics DEICIDE HAMBURGER PENANCE / REVOLVING SENTENCE / POSITION OF PERIL AND SPEAKING NO FRENCH / THE CONVOY IS STALKED / A FAVORITE HOSTAGE / MICROBES HAVE FISSURED AND POISONED THE SA...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:17:00 GMT

Lullaby Land Lyrics

Lullaby Land Lyrics Trilobite - Come up with something original Steal steal/Steal decent shit if you're going to steal Strip strip/Strip down to scrap and fuck the rest Drop drop/Drop popular and...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:14:00 GMT

VR albums 2007-9 (initial plans)

War Music & Premonition will be reissued as they were originally. In fact the first 300 Premonition CDs will include the original 1992 booklets I found in storage. Victor thinks he might...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 03:54:00 GMT

Clockseed lyrics

DOWAGER'S EGG the time snaps inside the memory twist the knife of slavery force the knowledge of many things the reason gives a silent hand me down insanity whipers things I do not need to panic no re...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:39:00 GMT

War Music lyrics

Dumme Weisse Menschen -  Ihr fragt warum wir sterbern sollen/S'ist leicht zu glauben evolution ist eine leuge Als die zivilisation es nach Europa machte/Hatte die auswahl der natur nichts mehr ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:23:00 GMT