u/Hainbach

See you this Sunday in Berlin, if you are around!

"Günak and Goetsch are prolific recording artists, the former having been releasing experimental electronic music under the Ah! Kosmos moniker as well as creating sound installations and compositions for performance and film under her real name. Besides putting out many solo and collaboration albums, Goetsch has also worked as a film composer on movies such as Fatih Akin’s Amrum and runs a YouTube channel on which he often demonstrates the potentials of rare music gear and non-musical machinery. Indeed, the duo takes the sonic output of nuclear test equipment or dolphin filters from marine biology as its starting point. “These sounds aren’t neutral; they carry the weight of time passing through machines and bodies,” explains Günak. “When you stop trying to clean it up, they reveal their behaviour as organisms. They have weight, they evolve, they resist.”

https://keithfem.com/2026/05/15/church-in-session-26-ah-kosmos-hainbach-gelbart/

The Bastl Kalimba is an instrument that has the potential to be the coolest synth of 2026: a physical modeling FM synth in the form of a Kalimba. Bastl send me an instrument ahead of their Kickstarter to play with. It's running an early firmware, which has its own fun quirks.

I got nominated for a German film award for my soundtrack to "Amrum"

https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/amrum-ost

In this video I and my three fellow nominees are sitting down for an interview with the film award team. It is in German, but there should be subtitles.

I picked up these three beauties (among other things) in Halle recently. These are passive thirds bandpass filters used in measurement wagon of the East German railway. They are heavy and loaded with coils, so I hope they sound good. That they are split up into three frequency ranges makes me think I can use them like a fixed filterbank. I have not had the time to see if they work yet sadly.

Looping has come a long way since I got my first Boss pedal. The three instruments I show in this video are far out, but which has gone the furthest? And more importantly, which one is the one that entices you the most? From the endless drifting of Soma Cosmos, the blooming soundscapes of Synthux Academy Spotykach to the Eldritch madness that is the Ciat-Lonbarde Cafe Quantum, here be loops.

As usual, a sample pack is on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sample-pack-156667371

The second album by Ah!Kosmos and me is out after two years of working on it. Have a listen over on Bandcamp, or wherever you stream music.