About airman

airman is the electro pop solo project with an innovative show by Stefan Vallbracht from Cologne, Germany.

airman delivers a straight palette of different electronic variations: You will hear SynthPop, Avantgarde, Big Beat, Trance and also driving Trip-Hop elements. But that doesn’t means Stefan Vallbracht hasn’t a central theme. All elements joining to a sound collage – sometimes with vocals – in an intelligent way.

Stefan Vallbracht, the mastermind of airman, doesn’t avoid inconvenience: Some songs are having very vanguard arrangements. The listener is diving into and dealing with the song. The manifold used sounds are taking the hearer to a journey through time and space – but never without a necessary dash of humour.

The songs are unmistakable influenced by Jean-Michel Jarre, Enigma, Yello, Kraftwerk, Propellerheads and by the dark wave music of the 80s like Depeche Mode or Camouflage.
But no doubt, Vallbracht goes a step beyond, is liberating from fixed patterns and blinders of electronic genres and is comparable with hard to classify pioneers like Art of Noise, Björk or unique concepts like Welle: Erdball.

You can call this for sure ‘ElektroTranceSynthPop 2.0’.

airman Stefan Vallbracht

airman is also a live event which is, because supported by video, lighting and theatre elements, an extraordinary multimedia stage performance.

On stage airman is performing in example uncommon instruments like a laser harp, rose piano (with real roses), wind controller, music glove (data glove), wii mote, computer keyboard but also show elements like ‘Birdh’ – the bird man, video and laser projections and a remote controlled virtual, tibetian monk.

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instruments

Also the extraordinary instruments are making airman something very special. For example airman performs a laser harp, rose piano (with real roses), wind controller, music glove (data glove), wii mote or a computer keyboard.

flight stops

Concert MS Township Bonn
release ‘softwar’ reacTable
Feature of the reacTable-Version (an interactive touch instrument) of “softwar” in the reacTable-Community (>23 thousand downloads)
release of the maxi single „softwar“
Concert at the Central Library Cologne

at the event series geeks@cologne

audio interactive visual installation within the event series geeks@cologne
Performances within the galas of Zirkusfabrik Köln
show case concert “Jungfernflug”

Presentation of the full length show developed in the previous years. World premiere of lots of “special effects” like the laser harp, video

Development of the laser harp
Performance with the Wind-Controller

at an event for Continental at the Frankfurt Opera House

Schwingungen-Election: 5. Place Categorie “Best Newcomer 2003”
first compositions

First compositions already with software, called “Tracker”, with the Commodore Amiga 500.

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