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|> Experiments | Sounds + Concepts |
| Man | Machine | Communication |
"Electricity is an expansion of the central nervous system. The various forms of media, that transform our environment, are generating completely new sensual experiences.
The expansion of our sense also changes the way in which we thing and act, the way we perceive the world. When these ways and conditions are transformed, than man himself gets transformed."
Marshall McLuhan
|> Man - Machine - Interface |> CommunicationMusic |

Working with the machines - or resp. the work delegated to or co-produced with the machines - opened up new creative spaces for the musicians. At the same time the machines, the whole studio played with and 'on' the musicians, thus influencing these new musical liberties in their playing:

"On stage I look into the tiny green eye of the reverb-machine. I simply wait until it's telling me that it should be switched on.
It's very simple to rule and play with these machines, as soon as you realize, that they are living and that we are for them, what God is for the human beings."
Michael Karoli [CAN]
Energies were meant to be exchanged - not only between the musicians themselves, but between them, their instruments and machines.

"That, for me, is so fascinating about electronics, because through all these interactions with it, a kind of exchange of emotions takes place - even if for some people this might sound ludicrous, while talking about machines."
Klaus Schulze

And with the electricity one would feed energy into these newly founded extensions of one's own - 'Life'-Energy or even their own kind of consciousness.

Energy-Exchange
"We play the machines - but the machines also play on us. They are not meant to do slavery-work only.
We try to treat them as colleagues, so that they exchange energies with us."
Ralf Huetter [Kraftwerk]
|> The Man-Machine | Feedback Cycle + Inspiration |

"In the studio one is playing for machines - and machines really like to listen. They have a heart and a soul, they are living creatures.
With CAN the recordings always turned out best, when they took place under unusual conditions or with unusual techniques - I would even say: if the mixing-desk and the other equipment were treated as human beings."
Holger Czukay [CAN]

The approach may have sounded unusual or even mad - but the newly opening and so far unexplored territories of electronic sound-production could only be explored in experimental ways.
The explorers stepped into long and intensive dialogues with their machine-musical partners.
"The Synth-Music is of course an experimental music. Everything is in it. But where, how and in which form, which texture and colour of sound, that has to be explored and come to grips with.
These conditions let the synthesizer become a partner in the musical dialogue. It is a constant cycle. You give him an idea, you get a result back and have to evaluate it critcally towards the music you wish to produce - how much it fits or how much it has to be modified.
You feed in the modified idea - and so it goes on and on."
Through this constant exchange and dialogue with their putative cold, mechanic colleagues a feedback-effect set in.
Man and Machine went on joined expeditions that could lead in both directions simultaneously.

Electro - Mirror
"We see the synthesizer as a kind of acoustic mirror, a highly sensitive analyzer of the human element - in a way that earlier instruments never had been.
Therefore it is much more suitable to express the human psyche and it's feelings like, for instance, the piano or the guitar."
Ralf Huetter [Kraftwerk]
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