Ulrich Schnauss in Concert

At once uplifting and otherworldly, the music of Ulrich Schnauss combines multi-layered synthesizers with beats and ethereal vocals, serving as an aural escape route from the trappings of reality. As Schnauss explains, ‘I’ve always used making and listening to music as a way to escape - putting on headphones is a great way to leave reality behind for a while, reminding yourself why it still makes sense to carry on.’ Aside from releases under his own moniker, Schnauss also plays keyboards for Engineers and has lent his hand to the production of recent albums by Kirsty Hawkshaw and Exit Calm. Regularly enlisted as a mixer, remixer, producer, DJ, and artist in his own right, Ulrich Schnauss may use music as a way to escape, but today he seems firmly rooted in the business, albeit constantly pushing against its staid sonic boundaries.

Born in 1977 in Kiel, Germany - a post-industrial seaport at the Baltic - Schnauss began improvising chord changes on an old piano in his parents’ flat; a process which remains the backbone of his songwriting to this day. Once settled on a basic chord structure, Schnauss combines programmed synths with layered basslines and rhythms, to consciously adorn each piece with certain emotions and textures. The titles of Ulrich Schnauss’s studio albums to date - Far Away Trains Passing By, A Strangely Isolated Place, and Goodbye - hint at the artist’s backwoods background, growing up in the ‘cultural wasteland that is rural Germany’. Unable to find like-minded people to create music with, Schnauss’ aural vision became liberated by his discovery of the synthesizer, enabling him to create multi-layered compositions on his own, with an aim to ‘translate the aesthetics of the ‘shoegazing’ sound into an electronic context’. Inspired by the alternative guitar bands of the late 80s/early 90s (Slowdive, Chapterhouse, My Bloody Valentine etc.) as well as Acid House and early electronica (Tangerine Dream, 808 State, The Orb), Schnauss began developing his own distinct sonic palette, melding delicate dreampop sensibilities with ecstatic electronic excess, defying the constraints of traditional music genre boundaries. After a move to Berlin and a slew of atmospheric dnb releases in the latter half of the 1990s - under the pseudonyms View to the Future and Ethereal 77 - Ulrich Schnauss felt confident enough to employ a more freeform approach and began recording ‘little electronica pieces’, culminating in the first album released under his own name, 2001’s Far Away Trains Passing By. As if adhering to a ‘less is more’ ethic, Ulrich created an album, which is by, turns spare and yet awash with melody. 2003’s A Strangely Isolated Place develops Schnauss’ ambitions to capture the dense, oscillating shoegazing sound, pushing the use of layered, modulated synth patterns to euphoric sonic effect. The inclusion of Judith Beck’s vocals on tracks such as ‘Gone Forever’ and ‘On My Own’ lends a human familiarity to the music. 2007’s Goodbye sees his multi-layered approach expanded to include a variety of live instrumentation and guest players, including members of Longview, Chapterhouse and Below the Sea plus vocals by Judith Beck and Schnauss himself. The album is unashamedly complex and daring in its layering of hundreds of separate manipulated synth tracks. After an initial struggle to perform the unique, interchanging nuances of these tracks live, Schnauss’s discovery of Ableton software has enabled him to build new arrangements on the spot, lending diversity and distinction to each performance. ‘I can also react to the atmosphere of the room,’ he explains, ‘sometimes playing more ambient; sometimes more rhythm-orientated versions of the songs.’

Today, Schnauss expresses a renewed interest in more direct electronic sounds, and aims to substitute traditional verse-chorus-verse structures for more freeform atmospherics. Stripping back the orgiastic excess of multilayered instrumentation, Schnauss is currently working on an album which intends to celebrate the synthesizer - the long-time cornerstone of Schnauss’s sound - as a musical instrument in its own right.

"Producer, remixer and all-round genius Ulrich Schnauss makes music as big as the oceans"
(NME)
"Schnauss is known for his atmospheric synth outings that combine the spirits of shoegaze"
(Drowned In Sound)
"A deep sense of introspection initiated via a soundtrack of delicate beauty”
(BBC)

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