Morgenstern is the name of a musical project combining noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

, industrial

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

, and ambient music

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

. It is a continuing act of Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

's Ant-Zen

Ant-Zen

Ant-Zen Audio and Visual Arts is a German independent record label founded in 1994 by Stefan Alt , who serves as the art director. Visual arts from Ant-Zen are typically bleak but astonishing landscapes, or microscopic studies of what is often overlooked...

 record label.

Members/History

Morgenstern was founded in 1993 by Andrea Börner. The word "Morgenstern" means "Morning star." Börner was a founding member of the industrial - punk crossover band Ars Moriendi

Ars moriendi

The Ars moriendi are two related Latin texts dating from about 1415 and 1450 which offer advice on the protocols and procedures of a good death, explaining how to "die well" according to Christian precepts of the late Middle Ages...

. She now devotes most of her time to Morgenstern, but also participates in the projects Templegarden's, KYAM

Kyam

The kyam is a crocodile-shaped fretted floor zither with three strings, used in the traditional music of the Mon people of Burma.The instrument's body is made of wood that is carved out on the underside like a dugout canoe. It has approximately 13 raised wooden frets that are diatonically rather...

, and Monokrom.

Discography

• (untitled) (Split w/ Mandelbrot
  Mandelbrot
  Mandelbrot, may refer to:* Benoît Mandelbrot , a mathematician associated with fractal geometry* Mandelbrot set, a fractal popularized by Benoît Mandelbrot* Mandelbrot Competition, a math competition- See also :...
  
  ), 1994
• (untitled) (Split w/ Asche
  Asche (band)
  Asche is a German musical project, one which encompasses the spectrum of noise, power electronics, and droning ambient. It is a staple act of Germany’s industrial and power noise record label, Ant-Zen.-Members / History:...
  
  ), 1996
• That Loop in My Eye (Split w/ Asche), 1997
• (s/t), CD, 1998
• Zyklen, CD, 1999
• Cold, CD, 2001
• Erode (with Converter and Asche
  Asche (band)
  Asche is a German musical project, one which encompasses the spectrum of noise, power electronics, and droning ambient. It is a staple act of Germany’s industrial and power noise record label, Ant-Zen.-Members / History:...
  
  ), CD, 2001
• Live at IWTBF Berlin 03 (Split w/ Monokrom), CD-R, 2004
• Hypnoider Zustand, CD-R, 2005
• Yesterdays, CD-R, 2005
• Two Different Faces, CD, 2005

External links

• Official website