{"id":3084,"date":"2026-06-20T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/musician-and-youtuber-hainbach-on-breath-of-the-wild-and-swiss-army-knives\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:20:00","slug":"musician-and-youtuber-hainbach-on-breath-of-the-wild-and-swiss-army-knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/musician-and-youtuber-hainbach-on-breath-of-the-wild-and-swiss-army-knives\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on \u2018Breath of the Wild\u2019 and Swiss Army Knives"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A black and white photo of Hainbach at a table with two pieces of scientific equipment that he uses to make music.\" data-caption=\"Indulging in the \u201cDark Souls of synthesis.\u201d | Image: Aleksander Stojanov \/ Hainbach\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Aleksander Stojanov \/ Hainbach\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Portrait-Aleksander-Stojanov-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tIndulging in the \u201cDark Souls of synthesis.\u201d | Image: Aleksander Stojanov \/ Hainbach\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the \u00ab\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/hainbach-interview-landfill-totems-dark-souls-synthesis-test-equipment-music-130025985.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dark Souls <\/em>of synthesis<\/a>.\u00a0\u00bb Despite using \u00ab\u00a0hard mode\u00a0\u00bb production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and gear salvaged from nuclear testing facilities, Hainbach is also incredibly <a href=\"https:\/\/hainbach.bandcamp.com\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prolific<\/a>, releasing six albums in 2025 alone, along with a handful of singles and EPs. His latest, <a href=\"https:\/\/hainbach.bandcamp.com\/album\/gentle-hum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Gentle Hum<\/em><\/a>, is a collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/ahkosmos.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ah! Kosmos<\/a> (Turkish composer, Ba\u015fak G\u00fcnak). The album is a melancholic co \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/953116\/experimental-musician-youtuber-hainbach-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indulging in the \u201cDark Souls of synthesis.\u201d | Image: Aleksander Stojanov \/ Hainbach Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}