Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press.
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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.
I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.
I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.
My dad's a sound designer, and he used to take me to work with him.
I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.
I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.
I did sound for a number of years, so I know the pain of the sound mixer on a set where everybody was talking.
At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.
I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.