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Planetary Ambient Music based on the ground tones and rhythms of the earth and the moon. Steve Schroyder (piano, keyboards and percussion) in collaboration with Hans Cousto, the renowned mathematician and musicologist, has created this music. The point of departure is provided by astronomical-physical realities that determine ground tone, scale intervals and rhythm. Hertz for Hertz, the music is diatonically tuned in precise frequencies and thus particularly well suited for therapy and meditation. The musician and organ builder Steve Schroyder experienced the rise of a new electronic music in Berlin at the beginning of the 1970s. Even then he was experimenting with ways of rendering cosmic dimensions accessible to experience through sounds. He became part of »Tangerine Dream« to record the album entitled »Alpha Centauri«. It was during this production that he first encountered the new instrument known as the synthesizer, nowadays still gaining significance in generating sound and playing a major role producing Tangerine Dream's next album, »Zeit«. Steve then joined a group called »Ashra Temple« and recorded with them the album »Seven Up« , on which Timothy Leary collaborated. In 1980, Steve Schroyder and the musician Gene Gross together formed the group »Augenstern«. Their first studio recording was the MC »Strahlen«, which met with acclaim in far-reaching New Age circles. Study of harmonic structures in nature gave rise to the idea of a »plant music«, which was first performed on the occasion of the Freiburg State Garden Show and can be heard on his next MC, »Blütenklang«. The listener can experience from within the resonance of the forms and beauties of flowers. Steve Schroyder and Hans Cousto met in the fall of 1987. Cousto acquainted Steve with the astronomic-harmonic groundwork of horoscope composition. Owing to their original manner of transposing horoscopes into music,. Steve Schroyder and Hans Cousto became popular studio guests on all sorts of radio and television programs here and abroad. In numerous live broadcasts, the horoscopes of studio guests were calculated, transposed into a musical composition and then performed live. One's own horoscope as a sound experience! In 1989 Steve Schroyder and the gong player and percussionist Jens Zygar formed the »Star Sounds Orchestra«. Artist-Homepage: www.schroyder.de