mastodon 4.7.2composer, vocalist, researcher, painting (as a hobby)
posts in english, japanese and german
作曲家・ボーカリスト・研究者・趣味で絵画
英語・日本語・ドイツ語で投稿
📍Nagoya (Japan) / 名古屋（日本）
It's always a pleasure to be part of a compilation alongside so many talented artists.
My track "Alive" is included as track #4 on the upcoming compilation "Neon Nation" by the label Dance All Ways Digital.
This compilation drops worldwide on Friday, August 7, 2026.
Auch wenn ich mich nicht zu allem auf Social Media melde, habe ich immer eine Meinung. Von dem Anschlag auf den CSD wurde auch hier in Japan berichtet. WIR ALLE SIND MENSCHEN. MIT GLEICHEN RECHTEN. DAS HAT gesellschaftlich geschützt zu werden. Wir sind geboren wie wir sind. Mein Beileid für die Angehörigen der Opfer.
„Starboy“. Einer meiner Instrumental-Releases, als noch niemand Musik-KIs kannte. 🤣
“Ghost Notes” came out in November 2025.
It remains a body of instrumental ambient pieces - quiet, gradual, and not directed toward a fixed point.
At the same time, my work has started to extend beyond that.
More and more pieces now include my own voice, not as a contrast, but as something that moves within the same space.
The music shifts, but it does not break away from what came before.
I’ve also begun to move my release pages onto my own server.
No external services, no predefined structures - just a space where I can decide how a piece is presented, how it looks, and how one enters it.
For “Ghost Notes”, this means there is now a dedicated page that brings everything together in a more direct way.
If you already know the album, it might offer a different way to return to it.
If not, it can serve as a quiet point of entry.
Ist schon irgendwie interessant wie gut nonverbale Komunikation auch zwischen Mensch und Tier oder andersrum funktioniert. Oder anders: es funktioniert. Immer.
I’m drawn to song lyrics that sit between mythic and mystical. Now that I’m starting to interpret these myself, I found myself asking how to move forward musically in a way that doesn’t alienate the listeners who have been with me so far.
With “Dancing in a Waking Dream”, I’m beginning a new chapter. That’s also why I’m releasing this single relatively soon after “Summer Sun” - on Friday, April 24, 2026.
“Dancing in a Waking Dream” is, genre-wise, a kind of crossover between ambient sounds, vocal trance, traditional Japanese pentatonic elements, and distinctly present Japanese instrumentation - especially prominent koto, with taiko used at selected moments.
Going forward, I want to move into the area of vocal ambient, often interwoven with electronic music and elements of Japanese music. I feel this direction is compelling, and it’s the path I want to take musically from here on.
#アンビエント #エレクトロニックミュージック #Ambient #AmbientMusic #ElectronicMusic
Die Imperium-Podcast-Reihe, absolut klasse. Super erzählte Geschichten, klasse Sprecher*innen. Hab gerade die H&M Story auf den Ohren. Spannend!
Podigee: https://imperium.podigee.io/
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/imperium/id1846550899
Und auch anderswo, wo es Podcasts gibt.
I’m in the hospital and rehab for a while because of my neurological conditions. Don’t worry, I’m staying around - I’ll just check back in during the first week of June. This kind of medical testing and rehab is pretty normal for me. 😊
Hello everyone, Marcus here with a small update. 😊 (I’m handling things for Thomas during his hospital and rehabilitation stay.)
This Friday, Thomas’ new single “Where the Quiet Stays” will finally be released. Some of you already saw the recent previews and artwork posts, but now the actual release is just a few days away. The track moves further into the atmospheric and reflective direction many listeners have come to associate with his recent work - quiet late-night textures, restrained vocals and a very intimate mood overall.
Preview (listen), pre-add, pre-save: scan the QR-code. Or here: https://tomkolbe.com/l/wherequitstays/
Thank you for staying with us. Thank you, as always, for your continued support.
I am currently preparing more in-depth material on this topic, with a focus also on people who are interested in music AI and want to understand the subject without having a professional background from the outset. This approach is deliberate, as I also want to include readers with professional experience and bring both perspectives together.
In my post, I only addressed the topic from my own perspective. In the more detailed material, I will broaden that perspective.
I am open-minded and very curious about what my research will reveal.
If you like, and if you have not already done so, please read my post. Thank you very much.
What do you think? 😊
Ich habe gerade soooo einen Hals auf Meta... sperren einem Freund auf Insta ohne Verstoß gegen deren Terms den Account mit über 40.000 Followern... und regen sich trotz eingelegter Beschwerde nicht. Ist nicht ohne Grund ein Business-Account. Verklagen auf Schadensersatz den Laden...
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Nachdem ich die unbeschreiblichen Zerstörungen in Kumamoto gesehen habe, verlor ich meine Sprache und meine Fröhlichkeit . Es ist ganz furchtbar.😞
Perfect.
A high of 33°C in Nagoya today. And another week of hot weather lies ahead.
Tomorrow is the day: Thomas’ track “Where the Quiet Stays” will be released!
A calm and relaxing vocal piece with a gentle atmosphere.
We hope you’ll enjoy it!
Greetings,
Marcus 😊
(on behalf of Thomas)
Gute Sache, hingehen! (Bei mir lebt auch noch ein altes Thinkpad mit Linux Mint weiter, als Ersatz "falls mal wat is".)
They were so young… and we too back then. A*Teens back in 1999. Btw their ABBA-Covers and own tracks are still fun.
KI Bilder auch als solche zu markieren: MACHEN! Ich mach's jetzt immer falls ich mal kein Foto habe. Man bricht sich keinen Zacken aus der Krone.
Offen gestanden habe ich nichts gegen KI-Bilder oder Videos dieser Art, wenn diese KLAR als KI-erzeugt für alle erkennbar markiert sind und nicht dazu dienen, Menschen zu betrügen, zu belügen bzw überhaupt irgendwie hinters Licht zu führen. Man bricht sich echt keinen Zacken aus der Krone, komplette KI-Kreationen als solche anzuzeigen.
And as always, it’s the ordinary people who have to suffer.
In spring, the quality of light changes quietly. The low, clear light of winter gradually softens and spreads, drawing out the colors inside a room. When flowers are placed by the window, this change becomes easy to notice. The petals catch the light and seem almost translucent, and the air slowly fills with the presence of the season.
From time to time I arrange flowers by the window. My girlfriend enjoys doing this as well, and sometimes I notice that she has quietly arranged them in her own way. A branch from the garden, a few seasonal flowers, a small adjustment of stems. In those moments, a small landscape appears on the windowsill.
Outside the window lies the spring garden. Pale cherry blossoms, the yellow of rapeseed flowers, small blossoms scattered like points of color. In the vegetable bed young shoots are pushing through the soil, and in the distance a range of mountains stretches softly across the horizon. Everything rests in the calm brightness of spring.
On the windowsill stands a Kintsugi vase in deep royal blue. I have always liked this color. It has a quiet depth - in the light it glows gently, while in shadow it becomes calm and grounded.
Across its surface runs a thin line of gold, the trace of a former break. I have always loved the combination of royal blue and gold. Within the deep blue, the gold appears as a soft light. The contrast is not loud; it exists as a quiet harmony.
When flowers are placed in the vase, this harmony becomes clearer. The pale tones of cherry blossoms, white petals, small purple and yellow flowers. Spring flowers are light and delicate, almost dissolving into the daylight.
And yet their time is brief. The moment of full bloom does not last long. A gust of wind can send the petals drifting through the air.
The Kintsugi vessel carries another kind of time. It holds a past. At some moment it broke, and at another moment it was carefully mended. The golden line does not hide that event. It allows it to remain visible.
While arranging flowers, I often think about this. The flowers carry the time that lies ahead of them - the certainty that they will soon fade. The vase carries the time that has already passed. On the windowsill those two directions of time meet.
In the spring light, the petals and the golden line glow softly. The flowers will fall. The vessel will keep its time.
And the light of spring quietly illuminates them both.
#spring #kintsugi #flowers #stilllife #gouache #painting #japanesegarden
On March 20, I will release “Songs in My Dreams”.
This time, I am not only composing and producing - I am also singing. The voice is not an added layer; it is the structural center of the piece. That decision changes the internal balance of a composition. Writing for one’s own voice exposes different thresholds: range, breath, fragility, restraint.
The lyrics were written deliberately in a poetic mode. Not as narrative explanation, but as condensation. I was less interested in describing dreams than in articulating the tension that follows them - the moment of waking when something internally coherent withdraws. Poetry allows ambiguity to remain intact. It resists closure.
For me, composition and research are not separate domains. My studio practice functions as a primary field of inquiry. Questions about memory, internal auditory imagery, and the instability of recall are worked through musically before they are formulated conceptually. In that sense, the act of writing and singing this song is already part of the investigation.
Some early genre classifications place the track within Adult Contemporary, based on its formal clarity and melodic hooks. I neither pursue nor reject such labels. They describe external features. My focus lies on the underlying processes.
“Songs in My Dreams” is therefore less about dreaming itself than about the awareness of loss - and the attempt to give that absence a voice.
#NewMusic #VocalMusic #AdultContemporary #LyricWriting #Dreams #Memory #Poetry
My current dance single „Alive“
RE: @tazgetroete@mastodon.social
Klasse!
I’m glad the launch of the Artemis II mission was successful, and I wish the crew all the best, good health, and every success on their journey!
Kumamoto: erneut Erdbeben, Stärke 5. 😒
In the study I would like to briefly introduce here, the focus is on the relationship
between meditation and music – a pairing that is widely discussed, yet often without
much precision.
The study examines how music that reliably induces aesthetic chills interacts with
meditative processes, with particular attention to affective intensity,
self-transcendence, emotional permeability, and subjective insight.
Open access study:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1589132/full
By the way, I’ve started a profile on eYou.social and so far I’m pretty happy with it. The AI-based post verification keeps the feeds clean, and my posts actually have a chance to be seen because all the misinformation and low-quality noise you get on other networks is filtered out. No liars, no conspiracy weirdos. Thanks. As soon as profile sharing is available, I’ll let you know.
Accounts, bei denen das Posten dieser Kurzvideos von max 6-8 Sekunden zur Dauermacke wird, kann ich mir nicht mehr antun. Mein Kopf macht da nicht mit und ich kann nicht anders als entfolgen.
Fills me with sadness to know that I’m familiar with some of the places where the war is raging in the Middle East right now - even if only from passing through.
