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Quantenenergie

Hi-tech psytrance built around one found phone call, cut word by word, stuttered, reversed and glitched. Every sound synthesized in code.

Sept 2026Psytrance200 BPMPython
AI 8/10

Sound engine in Python, built together with Claude · sample choice, arrangement, ears and taste by me

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A 200 BPM hi-tech psytrance track built around one found spoken-word recording: an esoteric phone call about quantum energy. The best lines are cut out word by word, placed as full sentences and then glitched, stuttered, reversed, pitched and used as percussion.

There’s no synthesizer and no sample pack in it. Together with Claude I built a Python project that generates every single sound: the kick, a physically modelled plucked-string bass, the pads, the acid lines, the glitches. Then I turned the Python code into a REAPER project that produces exactly the same sound.

The video does to the speaker’s face what the track does to his voice: every stutter, reverse and pitch jump is cut in sync.

Over the top and humorous, but properly produced and loud.

// The AI score

Geistreich or Geistlos?

In my novel Der Kurator, art is either geistreich, made with human spirit, or geistlos: generated, spiritless. Where exactly the line is, nobody in the book agrees.

For my own stuff I can answer it, case by case. So every project on this site shows how much of it I credit to AI:

There is no 10/10 on this site so far. A 10 would mean I wasn't involved at all in making it. That hasn't happened yet. What a 10/10 project could be one day, and whether it would still be mine, is a question I find pretty interesting.

The number is my own judgement. You're welcome to disagree.