Ambient Entity Schäfer Releases Video Performance Series. New Limited Edition Tape Mosaik Announced!

Schäfer is the solo project of the Cologne-based musician Lukas Schäfer. Coming from playing drums, he increasingly dealt with electronic sound generators and modular synthesis. Mastering a modular synthesizer, as we all know, is a science in itself, work that Schäfer immersed himself in during the pandemic stagnation of 2020.

With the new just to 100 copies limited edition tape titled Mosaik, out April 22nd on Acoustic Motion Concepts, solo ambient artist Schäfer presents 2 new tracks that convince with sensual dynamics, contrasting depth and artistic independence.

The new Mosaik tape release is accompanied by a video series consisting of three high quality performance videos recorded at the brutalist church John XXIII of cologne. You can watch and share the videos below.

How do you create a mosaic with just one piece? It seems like an almost impossible task. This piece has to be duplicated and its shape modified in order to create an image. And so the Cologne-based artist and music producer Schäfer begins to work on his composition Mosaik with a single synthesizer tone recorded rather incidentally - and explores its modulation in a variety of ways. By limiting the source material to the maximum, Schäfer allows himself to be artistically challenged and ultimately builds a mosaic from only one piece of sound that is reminiscent of an immersive meditation.

Listen watch: Schäfer - Valentine (Live Performance) - YouTube

The place of this meditation is the Cologne church John XXIII, in whose echo Schäfer places the finished track. Together we enter the church and only after the first notes have sounded does Mosaik become a sonic space of its own, inviting us to close our eyes and explore its noisy textures. Like passing thoughts, the music flows, undulating sounds wandering through the soundscape. They form chords as if by accident, casual acquaintances of tones binding and unbinding. Mosaik is ambient in the best sense: unobtrusively electronic, peacefully spatial.

Listen watch:

Schäfer - 1 for N. F. (Performance video): Schäfer - 1 for N. F. (Live Performance) - YouTube