Anyone who is interested in how they arrange their live sound should watch "Kraftwerk: Wellenfeldsynthese in der Kunstsammlung NRW"[0]. The concept they are usi

Anyone who is interested in how they arrange their live sound should watch "Kraftwerk: Wellenfeldsynthese in der Kunstsammlung NRW"[0]. The concept they are using is called "Wave field synthesis"[1]. I was lucky enough to attend 7 of those 8 concerts and it was just amazing since i'm following KW for many years now and attended a lot of their concerts. What others got wrong in this thread is that they never actually built something themselves but they had the ideas and the people surrounding them that could make those ideas reality (those guys in Bonn). They were students of Karlheinz Stockhausen and you could absolutely hear that. If you listen to some of their first recordings[2], imagine this would be played on a synth instead of traditional instruments... and now you got KW like you know it. If you are interested in some of the history about the scene in Düsseldorf you should def. watch "Keine Atempause – Düsseldorf, der Ratinger Hof und die neue Musik"[3]. Ratinger Hof was a mixture of artists, musicians and all kinds of crazy people. Funny (private) side note: When i was drinking wine with the dad of an old friend of mine, he told me that during his studies he was the driver for some of the now most famous artists (Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, etc.) and musicians back then. This guy had some crazy stories and since i know my friend for 20 years it was mind blowing that his dad drove some of my favorite artists/musicians and he never talked about it. ahhh.. so much memories.. Ralf and Florian are/were very kind persons and it always was nice to talk to them. They modeled much of the sound as we know it today. This whole area (Cologne/Bonn/Düsseldorf) is very rich when it comes to modern music. There once was a "Studio für elektronische Musik" (Studio for Electronic Music)[4] by the WDR (german radio/television). In the later years there were only "private" tours (thanks to Volker Müller - the sound engineer of Stockhausen!) and it saddens me that it's not open to the public anymore. They moved all of it outside of Cologne and now it's rotting in some basement. Real history that's just abandoned...[5] [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_bhcpE91A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_bhcpE91A [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_field_synthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_field_synthesis [2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoFHdlMrtI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoFHdlMrtI [3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lrdFOHRxuE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lrdFOHRxuE [4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_for_Electronic_Music_(WDR) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_for_Electronic_Music_(W... [5] - https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/eingemottet-in-kellerraeumen-was-wird-aus-dem-wdr-studio.2177.de.html?dram:article_id=468464 https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/eingemottet-in-kellerra...