Olaf Bender's creative work began with the casual finding of 16mm film equipment during school time. from that moment on, he started experimenting with the medium "film" as well as the raw material "film".
technical limitations forced special methods: he scratched directly on the footage to create geometrical figures; the results were archaic motion patterns. as a consequence of his experiments, he came into contact with the east German underground band AG Geige of which he became a permanent member in 1988. by working with this group, he also got into musical aspects. the home computer made it possible for autodidacts like him to work multimedially without musical training.
after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, bender worked in music distribution. the experiences he gained there led him to the idea of publishing his own music by himself. together with Frank Bretschneider and carsten nicolai, he founded the record label Raster-Noton in 1996. one of the label's earliest productions was the project signal, which Olaf Bender has been continuing together with Bretschneider and nicolai until today.
since the label's founding, bender has also produced music solo under the pseudony...
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