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Today, it is the second and third part of my interview with Wolfram Huschke aka Cellonaut I present you with.

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Finally I can come up with the first part of the interview. Parts 2-5 are following up within about 10 days - it’s all about the Vimeo upload quota, you know.



Wolfram Huschke speaks out on his musical influences and talks about his instruments, mainly the E-Cellos. Another subject to be covered is that of composition.

Unfortunately, the transcription takes a while, and I don’t want those people to wait who can understand German. Anyway, you may rest assured a full English transcription is to come.

Accidentally, I came across a musician lately. It is a story about how social media should work.

In April, @cellonaut from Twitter followed me. Just as always when someone follows, I inspected his tweets and bio… hm, cello player. Quite obvious from his Twitter alias. Hash tags told me he was about to play my home town in May. Then I got to his site: The sound examples simply blew me away (see “Press” and “CDs”). I had to go see him play. I had to CONTACT him. Xing and Facebook got us fully connected. We arranged for an interview. Btw, he’s great at tweeting too… on his way from Hamburg to Trier (where he was about to play) he was kind of twinterviewed - @hunderttausend, Trier online mag, played Q&A for 6 (!) hours.

A musician, playing an instrument as traditional as a cello in a most non-traditional way. Open to online life. That’s great. This has to be fun.

Now, you may ask yourself - who is this guy?
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