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Quantenenergie

200 BPM hi-tech psytrance built around one found phone call — cut word by word, stuttered, reversed and glitched. Every sound synthesized in code. No VSTs, no sample packs.

Sept 2026Psytrance200 BPMPython
AI 8/10

Every sound synthesized in Python with an AI as co-coder · 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.

The twist: there’s no synthesizer and no sample pack involved. Every sound is generated in Python code — the kick, the physically modelled plucked-string bass, the pads, the acid squelch. F# double harmonic for that spiritual-oriental psy colour, four drops, a key change and a tape stop at the end.

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 — and 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.