Portrait: Kevin Schroeder

» Creativity never finishes its work! «

Beat / How did you become a composer and synth sound designer?

Kevin / When I was ten years old - that was in 1992 - someone I knew showed me an LP by Jean-Michel-Jarre. The tracks “Arpeggiator” and “Oxygene 4” struck my head like lightning. But I‘ve also listened to Kraftwerk and their title “Radioactivity” endlessly. From then on, I really wanted to own a keyboard myself, which my parents made possible. I started memorizing almost all of JMJ‘s titles without ever knowing a note. At that age I didn‘t know that fast rhythms are programmed with the sequencer. So I hammered my keyboard mercilessly until I was exactly in timing with the sequencer. To this day I can play like a sequencer (laughs).

Beat / What happened next?

/ Later an Amiga500 was added. I worked with Octamed, an 8 track sequencer. When I was 14 I bought my first synthesizer, it was a different dimension than a Casio keyboard. With that I was finally able to program sounds, but I was never satisfied with