DIY MUSICS

On this page you will find mp3 albums and tracks of my DIY music as Modersohn-Becker, freely downloadable for your personal (uneasy) listening. Here you can also order lovingly crafted CD copies of my album “Wrong!”, as well as listen to some stream-only bonus tracks.

Modersohn-Becker – 2005-2013: a solitary journey into DIY music-making.
“Starting from approximately 2005 I began to secretly create tracks as Modersohn-Becker. These were incredibly lo-fi affairs: I had no knowledge of music technology or music-making software at the time, and had to make do with whatever was at my disposal.
For the earliest M-B tracks, I used Windows Recorder and a decrepit, taped- together old plastic microphone. I recorded mostly acappella and in one take, without editing the results as I had no way to do so. I would use two Windows Recorder windows, and play from one whilst recording from the other. These recordings were the computer-user equivalent of my childhood experiments of playing with two tape recorders, creating layers by playing from one machine while taping to the other.
I felt incredibly self-conscious about recording, so I would create my M-B tracks sneakily, in a couple of hours, when I was sure I was alone in the house. I just had a desperate need to express myself… somehow. At first these tracks were made just for myself, as a way to relieve my frustra- tion and isolation, but then I gradually and anxiously began uploading some of these to social networking sites in order to get over my insecurity. Because in the end what I wanted was to make a connection with the outside, to know that I existed.
And now, years later, I may be a little more experienced, but the truth is that I still do not quite know what I am doing, though I am compelled to keep doing it. This is me at my purest, in a way. This is what comes out.”

ALBUM: “WRONG!”

BUY CD

£3 per CD + extra shipping charges (please allow some extra time for preparation as each CD booklet is hand-assembled after printing).

Download album for free (mp3 + all cover artwork)

TRACKLISTING:

1. Here’s My First Number

BONUS TRACKS:

My intention was for this album to include three extra tracks which you can stream below:

“Hairy Nipples”

“Stain”

“M.O.R.”

Unfortunately for copyright reasons I am not sure if I can include them and thus they are only available for listening purposes on here (one of the tracks contains a record sample, another a recording of dialogue from a B-Movie and the third features me humming the bassline to Fever). Let me know if you have any suggestions regarding this as my knowledge of this field is limited and I don’t know how to proceed/ do not wish to infringe others’ copyright.