SAE Magazine 13-2

86 C ertainly, I didn’t know where I wanted to go. But I had a desire to produce professional music in good studios”, Johannes tells about the time after his SAE training and notes: “I did not want to produce famous artists, but simply make challenging music.” His friend Sascha had similar thoughts: “I preferred to work in a studio producing bands because of my love for composing, arranging and mixing. Working as live technician was never an option for me. Unfortunately all my applications were without success.” Instead, Sascha concentrated on his own bands Eden Weint Im Grab, Transit Poetry and Despairation. With them he recorded several albums in his own Winter Solitude Studio. He now makes his living as music editor of Zillo magazine. Johannes however did not write any applications. “No, I felt the urge to do something independently”, he says. “The SAE teachers often told us to work independently.” Fortunately he met a classical recording engineer and slipped into the field of classical recordings. “I made my first re- cordings at smaller orchestral concerts and liked to produce and distribute those as CDs. I saw a need for the short run of CD editions. I also wanted to establish downloads for classical music”, says Johannes. This eventually became KlassikBerlin. In 2008 the website ww online. Under this label Jo offered the complete pac ing to finishing the CD a could not make a living fr jazz club as a sound engin in a Rostock studio. Do it yourself. Already during their time Sascha had conversation common. They thought a order to sell their own co living from it. Finally the two launched A graduate theatre and ev Lamberz and former SA “With Audioahead, ultima verged: production, distrib passion for music”, Joha a thing, which we really hasn’t been born out of a there was a long way to able to start doing busin we needed to find the righ on the concept. The web sighs. “It’s not sufficient t line because our shop sy trate thousands of songs, to be automated and of c offer a sophisticated sear People & Business // Audioahead Sascha Blach & Johannes Bähler “ The SAE teachers often told us to work independently.

SAE Magazine 13-2

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