JUERGEN RIEGER (PolarProject)



Your favourite virtue ::
passion, reliability and to be in a good mood

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
honesty, reliability.

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
honesty, reliability.

Your favourite occupation ::
sitting in front of my computer, creating new sounds and bring them together in my sequencer.
listening to electronic music. watching a good movie.
sitting in front of my computer, creating new pictures with photoshop and painter.

Your idea of happiness ::
only to do things I love.

Your idea of misery ::
war. global warming. chopping down the rainforest. fur coats.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
no one else, my time is running fast and there are so many things I haven't done.

Where would you like to live ::
right here where I live now, where all my family and friends surrounding me,
with just a little more sun from february to november.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
all colours, even a rainy day in november. sunflowers and the bloom of all cactuses.

Your favourite prose authors ::
Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I love Sherlock Holmes) and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Your favourite poets ::
Roger Waters, Bob Dylan, Neil Young

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Spiderman, Robocop and Frodo Beutlin.

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Lara Croft, Galadriel, Padmé Amidala and her child princess Leia.

Your favourite painters and composers ::
all artists of the impressionism period, graffiti painters, Andy Warhol and many more... .
John Williams (the "star wars" and the "jaws" compositions are incredible), Jean-Michel Jarre, Roger Waters and David Gilmour, Richie Hawtin, Kraftwerk and many more... .

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
doctors without borders and all people spending their free time helping other people.

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
doctors without borders and all people spending their free time helping other people.

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
dictators

Your favourite food and drink ::
all kind of italian food, wine and wheat beer.

Your favourite names ::
a name means nothing. the person in front of me or at the end of an e-mail-line somewhere round the globe is important.

Your pet aversion ::
flies, gnats, all kind of insects.

The reform which you most estimate ::
the internet, talk to people and friends all over the world via e-mail, vst-instruments.

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
I'm alive, and I can express myself in music and pictures. that's gift enough.

How I would like to die ::
very old and silent in my sleep, watching a light at the end of the tunnel.

What is your present state of mind ::
concentrated on my projects for the future. trust in future.

For what fault have you most toleration ::
craziness.

Your favourite motto ::
never give up and enjoy every minute of your life.

22 novembre 2006

Juergen Rieger (aka PolarProject) is living in a small town near Frankfurt/Main in Germany.
He studied grafik-design in the middle of the 90's and is working now as a free designer and musician.

Polarproject is the first solo-project by Juergen and based on a more conceptual work.

Juergen is part of the two projects "sternenspringer" and "systemton", with Gerd Neusser.
They both have developed a lot of contributions added to different compilations and special remixes for friends. Several releases are to be found on tonatom and inoquo as well.

Juergen is also coordinator of the fresh netlabel :: clear-cut-records, label for minimal moments.

Website :: PolarProject
Website :: Sternenspringer
Website :: Systemon

Label :: clear-cut-records

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

ROBERT HENKE



Your favourite virtue ::
Passion, dedication

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Humor, reliability

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Passion, humor, intelligence, self-confidence, reliability

Your favourite occupation ::
Is maybe not composing music - often enough a painful and slow process. My favourite occupation is having sex, sex with persons I love. Or writing software.

Your idea of happiness ::
Being satisfied with my work, being together with people, with lovers and friends, eating and drinking in a good small (french) restaurant i just discovered.

Your idea of misery ::
War, severe illness.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
A slightly more self confident me and slightly more gifted computer musician.

Where would you like to live ::
Berlin, which should be a place close to the bavarian alps, close to an occean and with tropical climate.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
Colour : RGB
Flowers : all of them. if I had the money and space I would live and work in a botanical garden.

Your favourite prose authors ::
No particular favourite, the list would be way too long.

Your favourite poets ::
Uhm... none. Poetry does not touch me.

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Arthur Philip Dent, Archibald Tuttle,...

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Ripley of course.

Your favourite painters and composers ::
This list will be endless.... mentioning only some of them would be unfair against the other ones.....

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Everyone who is acting responsible for this planet without making a big deal out of it.

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Everyone who is acting responsible for this planet without making a big deal out of it.

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
The usual suspects inlcuding G.W.B. who will hopefully soon become history as a politician. Which will not change much anyway.

Your favourite food and drink :: Almost all food, if it is done with dedication. Eating good food comes very close to having good sex or writing good music. Very essential occupation. Writing this makes me want to drink good wine now.

Your favourite names ::
A name is just a tag, it has no quality of its own. If you stare long enough at the names "monolake" or "Robert Henke" on record covers they start to look nice. Same goes for repeating them often enough in discussions, especially after favourite food and drinks...

Your pet aversion ::
Dogs smell, I have an allergic reaction against cats, and the bite of an australian bull ant before starting a concert is an experience I do not need a second time. But hey, these are not pets, are they?

The reform which you most estimate ::
The ability to communicate with friends around this globe using modern technologies

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
uhm,... a lot more musicallity, is this maybe possible please ? Plus more self confidence....

How I would like to die ::
Very old, happy, surrounded by friends, at home, in peace with my life.

What is your present state of mind ::
Slightly stressed because of too much work, slightly to less satisfied with the quality of my musical work. But in general I feel better and better with the years, becoming more and more relaxed in a lot of ways.

For what fault have you most toleration ::
Insecurity

Your favourite motto ::
"every relationship is based on trust"

8 novembre 2006

Robert Henke is a musician and music software developer and runs a very smal record label. He lives and works in Berlin and Kreuzberg.

website :: Monolake

Photography by Ulf Bueschleb

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890