About Me

I work as a musician and visual artist under the name black-tech. My aesthetic and technical foundation goes back to my childhood near the Oberhausen steelworks (HOAG): an environment whose industrial images, sounds and structures continue to shape the core of my work.

Since 2011, I have lived in Herten. Together with my husband, I walk my path with the trust that respect, solidarity, and mutual support carry us through every phase. We see ourselves less as traditional spouses and more as reliable team partners beyond conventional role models and free in how we shape our life together.

My artistic interests have always moved within the interplay of technology, sound and visual imagination. A particular focus lies on coke-plant technology and the iron-making industry: the oven batteries, the pushing machines, the by-product plants and the monumental architecture of facilities such as the historic Thyssen coke plants.

Coke-plant technology forms the axis of my work → a technical and aesthetic core from which sound, image and imagination unfold.

This world fascinates me not only from a documentary perspective, but as an aesthetic, atmospheric and emotional space.

Electronic music has accompanied me since my youth. Early on, the sound worlds of Tangerine Dream shaped my perception: their structural depth, their sequencer logic and their ability to transform a wide variety of spaces into musical atmospheres. This aesthetic remains a central resonance space within my own work.

I explore sound using synthesizers and later plugins (synthesizer emulations), shaping textures, frequencies and noise spaces, integrating original industrial sounds, for example from the Schwelgern coke plant, and understanding myself less as a traditional musician and more as a seeker of sound. From this work emerge electronic compositions between Downtempo Electronica, Industrial Ambient and experimental soundscapes.

My drawings likewise originate from heavy industry: from constructive structures, from structural forms, varied material surfaces, patina, and from the visual tension between precision and monumentality.

This interest is complemented by steelmaking, mining technology and everything that moves on rails: from steam locomotives to trams. I am equally fascinated by inland shipping: bulk carriers, tank motor vessels and the industrial logistics flows along the Rhine and its canals.
In this context, I maintain the website of SBB-Verlag Dortmund and colorize historical photographs for book projects.

black-tech is therefore an expression of an industrial culture that has accompanied me for decades: technically, artistically and acoustically.
 

 

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