Klaus Schulze:

KS: I do not "write" music in a classical sense. My kind of working is best described as "improvisation". This is not exactly the right word for it, but it comes close to my kind of working. I play around, and slowly a piece of music emerges out of that.

There are two ways of inspiration. One is the figurative image like in a movie or an opera, the other is just music in itself, with no pictures. Both come from life, from my life, my past, and my present. It comes rarely from other musicians, never from other records.
Very different is my work on soundtracks for films: I have to make the music fit in with the movie, which means a stronger discipline, especially in timing.

Normally when I compose, and play the first note, I don't know what note will follow. Even when it's finished, it isn't, because it happens that I do change some notes or sounds or phrases after I listened to the piece. I think, that is quite normal with composers for hundreds of years.

Q: During the course of time, how have you changed as a composer?

KS: Of course I changed during the last 24 years, since I do solo albums. Just listen to my older and my newer music, there is a development. In each era everything is different: Me, my instruments, the audience, the circumstances, the fashions... It is a most normal thing that an artist grows and changes - at least it should be.

Source: https://www.klaus-schulze.com/interv/in9601.htm

 

Last edited: Mar 21, 2025

Nice Interesting, very, feels like what i am doing.

 

You have very good creative phases and not-so-creative phases, unfortunately, you can't just flick through them at the touch of a button. I think you're on the right track. Sometimes a new idea just comes... practically out of nowhere! That's the beauty of music, because human creativity is infinite. You probably know novelists who suffer from writer's block!

 

Yeas i know of this very well, i comes and goes, ive written idk 15 tracks since december and now recently ive been strugglin but it goes away and the flow comes back, there is ways to find the flow, like meditating and listening to other music and stuff. But i have been doing some rly good tracks then less good, its a process to become pro, but im feeling improvement for sure,but then its blank some days, i hate that !!!
Luckily it goes away, i guess its about how much fun you are having, serum 2 is out and man it is fun! i never used serum thought is sounded trashy, but now serum 2 has changed my mind, its a bit overwhelming but im gonna learn it, which will improve my sounddesign. Hopefully

Creative windows you may call it, im feeling it now so gonna make something

 

You have a positive attitude, you meditate ~ Great! Somehow, you get on with it...!
You should recharge your batteries every now and then and do something completely different, otherwise you'll resemble a robot.

 

Thats what i feel like now. Maybe a break can be in order. Im exhausted mentally.

 

Problem identified - danger averted! Rest for a while, enjoy the songs/work you've already done.
People take vacations in normal working lives, too!

 

Yes. I think i have to, im having some writers block, so gonna let it be for a while, but im addicted to making music

 

Remember, you're not alone with this problem; some people even get tendonitis and have to take a break. Maybe you can focus on other things like your website, write lyrics, back up your data, take new photos, etc.! Take a two-week vacation.

 

Yeah im actually studying music theory and some other classes, today will be my last track making day then i will pick up the slack in school, creating music is so hard when the block comes and i try so hard to overcome it. But i can give it a rest ive made a lot of music in short time.

A break is coming after today

 

To me, this seems very well produced. Bear in mind I have no references to compare this to, as I don't listen to techno music, but it's undeniable your track is evolving, consistent and 'tells a story'.

If I were to give a naïve feedback (considering I know so little about the idiom), I'd say you could explore more chopping and slicing on your transitions and elsewhere, make strategic use of well placed silence bits, make it 'stutter' a little, for added surprise, tension and release. Also, I'd go for a selection of licks and samples that pop up only once or twice in the track... While that might seem to break cohesion and minimalism, for my taste it would add variation, impart a 'wild' and 'live' sensation (akin to that of a jam session) and, less importantly, make your audience feel like you have ideas to spare. God bless your music!

 

Thanks for your feedback, it doesn't matter if you don't listen to it, it gives a certain feeling anyway, and the things you are suggesting is stuff im working on, like adding stutter FX etc, yeah you break the minimal genre if you go too much with sampling, depending on what it is ofc.

Good feedack.

Thanks

 

60k views, w t f

Hope all is doing well!

 

Enjoyed production but felt needed more movement.

 

Yeah i suppose it might be too much repetition going on.
Thnx for input

 

It needs something in the higher frequencies. A synth hook, a vocal line but something.

 

I agree, im trying to make my own vocal hooks, but its hard! Need a couple of plugins i cant afford like wormhole from zynaptiq would be good,
OFC there are alternatives. But i need to make my own vocals i know that, just haven't gotten to that stage yet, time to step up!

 

114k views, insane, i took the opportunity edit topic and to share my top 3 tracks, and see what you guys think.

Its more listenable i would say than the original track!

Please share thoughts and feedback, it really helps.

 

Man, this makes no sense, what... 100k views? Do you "bot" this thread somehow or what..anyway

I would probably recommend trying different plugs/clippers/limiters on the master, the feeling is somehow strange...i get the production and stuff, but, idn...the tracks dont remind me of any other tracks "color" wise, sounds somehow submerged, weather u use some specific compressor or saturator, if you like share the unmastered version of the last track, it has a cool vibe and props also, nice work!!

 

I have no idea how it got 100k views. I updated the thread yesterday shared 3 more tracks, admin then moved me from Electronic thread to this new one, i do not generate bots and what not, wtf man thats just wierd, idk how it got so many views.

yeah i dont know i master my own tracks, pretty standard stuff. The unmastered tracks i have them but i dont see any reason uploading them but sending them to a engineer might be good, actually i did that with Sage audio i bought the subscription which gives 10 free masterings, i then mastered 3-4 tracks sent the mixdown to Sage then i A B the mastered versions and there was no difference really, i have Adam A77H speakers in a treated room so i know how it should sound, i also use headphones with sonarworks and the headphones treated with the EQ sounds like my system if i take my phones on and off, needless to say i have a pretty good acoustics treatment, also i studied music production in sweden, i have a certificate thats like below phd its called kandidatexamen, so during my education iv'e learnt alot about acoustics.

Now how i master my tracks can definitely improve, but i want to become pro at all the steps, production, mixing, mastering you know.

Thats why i created this thread and your input is important, the master is pretty pushed since i upload to soundcloud without restrictions maybe im saturating too much but i am sparingly saturating, mainly i use a multiband limiter for the loudness and dynamics.

Thanks for your feedback!