Music you listen to.

At some point I noticed that I listen to music in two completely different ways. Sometimes it plays alongside while I do something else. And sometimes it's the main thing — I sit down, take the time, and really listen. I discovered these two modes for myself, and I use them every day. Farbwende grew out of that.

This is the active mode. Active means: I listen to the music for its own sake — I take the time and say, this is what I want to hear right now. It isn't background, but the thing I focus my attention on. It has nothing to do with tempo: a quiet piece you give yourself over to is active; a driving track running on the side is not. The music is in the foreground — and so are you.

I believe music can do more than please. It shapes moods. It amplifies what's already there, or turns it around. It can trigger a state you couldn't name before and make it tangible. That's exactly what I try to do here — not to drive you, but to show you what music is capable of when you give it room.

It started with “The Color Game” — my first attempt to show something with music. It's about how colours sound to me. Colours have an effect, and that effect is what I tried to translate into music. Hence the name as well: Farbwende — literally a “shift of colour”. From that one question — how does a colour, a mood, a state sound — everything else emerged.

And honestly: whoever takes the time to simply listen gives me something rare. Attention is the scarcest thing today. To everyone who gives it to the music, I'm incredibly grateful.