No man is an island — I've had the great pleasure of collaborating with highly creative people over the last years, in various constellations and locations. We made a lot of wonderful projects come true because of a great team effort.

 

Most and for all my long term artistic collaborator and friend Markus F.C. Buhl is an important support, a passionate renaissance man with whom I share countless special interests from endless lines of programming code for our Alien Essentials audio software over the art of deep sampling to the various qualities of film grain that might just be the icing on the cake.

 

A lot of productions require highly specific technical skills and knowledge which are brilliantly and elegantly solved by the audio wizard of OZ, Markus "Hossi" Hossack. If I run out of channels, sync or steam - I simply ask him.

 

Besides my commercial work I always had great interest in supporting independent music –, dance — and theatre scene with various works for the Hannah Ma Dance Company in Luxemburg and South Africa, productions at Deutsches Theater (Berlin) and Staatstheater Mainz or our own independent Berlin project SONICONOCLASM.

I am very grateful for this huge palette of creative challenges with so many wonderful people. My creative Fernweh is as strong as ever and I love travelling the world of brave new media and its seven seas.

 

Sebastian M. Purfürst

— Berlin, February 2023

P.S. "LEM" was always an insider reference to the polish science-fiction author Stanislaw Lem. We simply loved his visionary novels where science-fiction, political and social were woven into fantastical worlds.

 

Only  years later I discovered that NASA had named their lander spacecraft LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) in their Apollo Program in the 60s.

 

Both associative links are wonderful.