MiDi BiTCH, your new album Unstern sounds like an audio trip through inner and outer galaxies. What inspired this work?

Unstern is a state of being — a dark star, a moment between premonition and realization. The tracks are fragments of an inner monologue about time, consciousness, and technology. I’m drawn to the inexplicable: dream logic, ancient philosophy, future anxiety, myth, and machines. I wanted to create sonic spaces you can get lost in — or find yourself again.

You work with Bitwig. Why this DAW, and what excites you about it?

Bitwig is like a modular instrument in software form. It doesn’t think in traditional DAW terms — it behaves more like a synthesizer. I love its modular architecture, the Grid, the way I can build strange signal paths without hitting technical walls. It’s a digital lab for ideas.

How do your tracks come to life?

I usually start with a texture, a sound, a random modulation. Bitwig allows me to make music out of mistakes — little feedback loops, LFO cascades, audio-triggered parameters. I let the process guide me. Melodies often emerge organically, from motion. After that, I shape the flow — what stays, what vanishes, what repeats like a mantra. Unstern came together in a very intuitive, almost meditative way.

The album blends Berlin School sequences with dark ambient textures and industrial edge. How do you keep it coherent?

I work a lot with layering and contrasting textures. Bitwig makes it easy to blur or split sounds. The tracks aren’t traditionally “produced” — they’re grown. I treat sound as language, and Unstern speaks in a kind of “dream language,” full of fragments, repetitions, hints. I trust that listeners will understand it instinctively — or at least feel it.

The videos for each track feel like visual meditations. Was that intentional?

Definitely. For me, sound is visual. Every track has a shape, a color, a motion. The videos don’t explain the music — they extend it. Like symbols in a dream. The visual side doesn’t make the album more “understandable,” but invites a different way of listening — with open eyes and suspended logic.

What’s next?

Always forward. I’m already working on new projects — more AI, more analog modular synthesis, maybe more spoken text. Unstern was a dark look into the cosmos. Now I want to see what’s beyond the shadow.

Thanks for the conversation!

Thank you. Hailing frequencies always open.

Unstern by MiDi BiTCH: midibitch.bandcamp.com/album/unstern