Good Vibes

Real-time composition on March 6th 2010. Beat Föllmi: Vibe Drums, Percussion, Drums Rochus Keller: Grand Piano, Bass Pedals Beat used his new Vibe Drums for the first time on this recording; the instrument looks like this: For more information see here. And here’s the music (License: Creative Commons...

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The Drumming Feet Experiment

And now I play the drums with my feet! The idea came to my mind in December 2009 after I played the bass pedals for several years. Actually this happened because my wife wanted to play the bass and I had to look for another assignment for my feet.  I’m using the Fatar Studiologic MP117 bass pedal controlling a drum kit generated by a Roland expander. The piano is a...

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Live in Steinhausen am 12.12.2008

Beat Föllmi: Drums, Gongs, Percussion Rochus Keller: Grand Piano, Organ, Sylophon, Vocoder, Bass Pedals This is a live concert on December 12 2008 in Steinhausen (Zug). Because Beat and I have lots of equipment to carry, we rarely do gigs. So this recording has kind of scarcity value. As usual it was a real-time composition, i.e. we just improvised out of the moment...

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Anticipation

On Decemter 5th 2008 Beat and I did our dress rehersal in pleasant anticipation of our concert to happen seven days later; and you can imagine how we did it: we built up all our toys and just played on a gut level – as we intended to do in concert.   Beat Föllmi: Drums, Gongs, Percussion Rochus Keller: Grand Piano, Organ, Synthesizers, Sylophon, Vocoder, Bass...

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Das präparierte Klavier

Beat got an old upright piano from somewhere; we then prepared the strings with different materials so it made interesting percussive sounds; of course we didn’t invent the concept of the Prepared Piano, but we had a lot of fun anyway. Check yourself. 08.mp3 07.mp3 11.mp3 10.mp3 09.mp3 15.mp3 13.mp3 (License: Creative Commons by-nc-sa) Session on November 30th...

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Mallet Ballet

Studio Live Session Beat Föllmi: Hang, Balaphon, Drums Rochus Keller: Marimba, Piano, Guitars, Bass   Samples (License: Creative Commons by-nc-sa): Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, Track 4, Track 5, Track 6, Track 7 [Show as slideshow] ...

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Miss June

Studio Live Session Real Time Composition and Arrangement Beat Föllmi: Drums & Percussion Rochus Keller: Grand Piano, Bass   Samples (License: Creative Commons by-nc-sa): Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, Track 4,Track 5, Track 6, Track...

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Celebration

Studio Live Session Beat Föllmi: Drums & Percussion Rochus Keller: Grand Piano, Guitars, Bass     Samples (License: Creative Commons by-nc-sa): Track 3, Track 4, Track 5, Track 6, Track 7, Track...

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Music 2005

In 2005 we had a good time at TreeTalks studio, the living artwork by Oliver...

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ToyLand

Sequencer Multitrack Improvisation (i.e. I just played; for the imrovised pieces just what came to my mind) Rochus Keller: Composition & Arrangement (I played all instruments myself) I’m pleased to introduce my new toy. This is a long waited device finally able to play a whole production out of one tiny box. It has 16 channels, eight of which equiped with great...

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November Wind

Studio Live Session Real Time Composition and Arrangement Beat Föllmi: Drums & Percussion Rochus Keller: Grand Piano, Guitar, Vocoder, Bass   Samples (License: Creative Commons by-nc-sa): Track 1, Track 2, Track 7, Track...

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Flugsand

Studio Live Session Real Time Composition and Arrangement Beat Föllmi: Drums & Percussion Rochus Keller: Guitars, Bass   Samples (License: Creative Commons by-nc-sa): Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, Track 5, Track...

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eVox

Studio Live Session Beat Föllmi: Drums and Percussion Rochus Keller: Grand Piano, Synth, Bass, Vocoder   Samples (License: Creative Commons by-nc-sa): Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, Track 4, Track...

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CARA – Computer Aided Resonance Assignment

CARA is a software application for the analysis of NMR spectra and computer aided resonance assignment which is particularly suited for biomacromolecules. Dedicated tools for backbone assignment, side chain assignment, and peak integration support the entire process of structure determination. I started CARA during my PhD in Professor Kurt Wüthrich’s group. CARA...

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Music 2004

In the year 2004 Beat and me had the opportunity to compose and produce the music for the fameous Loisium “Kellerwelten” exibition in the wonderful city of Langenlois (near Vienna).               Some sample tracks: Gärphonie, Walzer, Hochzeit Mix A, Mix B, Mix...

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Music Projects

(outdated) Weinmuseum Loisium: Komposition und Produktion der Musik für die Kellerwelten des Loisium, dem berühmten Weinmuseum bei Wien. Cantina Verlag: Produktion der CD zum Buch des englischen Fotografen Roger Harrison mit dem Titel “Heile Welt – Harte Arbeit”. Mitwirkung als Musiker zusammen mit Beat Föllmi und Carlo Gamma. Sämtliche Titel...

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Loisium

Rochus Keller: Piano, Bass, Hörner, Orchester Beat Föllmi: Xylophon, Drums, Percussion Composition, Arrangement and Production by Rochus Keller     Pictures: On location Samples: Intro, Rondo, Gärphonie, Walzer,Basilika, Chor, Hochzeit Mix A, Mix B, Mix C Not used: LoessHymn, Mystic (License: Creative Commons...

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Melan Cholie

Studio Live Session Beat Föllmi: Drums and Percussion Rochus Keller: Grand Piano, Synthesizer, Bass   Samples (License: Creative Commons by-nc-sa): Track 2, Track 3, Track 4, Track 6, Track...

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Und siehe, es ward das Huhn

Xylophonie Real Time Composition and Arrangement Beat Föllmi: Xylophon, Vibraphon Rochus Keller: Grand Piano, Tenor-Hörner, Bässe   Samples (License: Creative Commons by-nc-sa): Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, Track 4, Track 7, Track 9, Track 10, Track 13, Track...

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Bettagskonzert

Live in der Kirche St. Wolfgang, Hünenberg Real Time Composition and Arrangement Beat Föllmi: Drums, Percussion, Balaphon Carlo Gamma: Sopran & Tenor Sax, Voice Rochus Keller: Grand Piano, Synthesizer, Orchestral Sounds, Bass Pedals Here is the music: Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, Track 5, Track 6, Track 7 And here are two extras, which we played before the audience...

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