This page is new as well: a place for news about the site and for thoughts that do not fit anywhere else. Gedankenzettel is German for a scrap of paper you write a thought on so it does not get lost.
The newest notes also show up on the front page. If you prefer a feed reader: there is an RSS feed.
A personal site from 1999 had a guestbook, so this one has one again. Entries appear after I have read them, and nothing about you is stored except what you write.
Two new tools: Rauschraster grew out of a small sketch, a grid of shapes turned by flowing noise. It got new colours, eight shapes and an export that looks exactly like the screen. Schrittgitter is the simple way into FM sound: sixteen tones in a grid and a light that walks across them, step by step. Konsonanzgitter is the big instrument; Schrittgitter is where you start.
abstract-arts.de was online from 1999 to 2004: green links, Courier New, the energy background, five years of pictures and music. Then it went quiet, and at some point the domain was gone.
Now it is mine again. The old pages came back from Wayback Machine snapshots. The pictures came back from old hard drives: a small script dug through them disk by disk and collected whatever looked like abstract-arts. In the end every picture of the old galleries turned up again in full size.
The 2004 site lives on as a time capsule, exactly as it was. The switch at the top of the page (2026 | 2004) takes you there and back.