Thomas Stern

Thomas Stern (born in Bremen) is a German musician, sound engineer and producer After running a P A Company and a sound studio distillery he defected to Berlin in the famous 1984. In 1986 he joined the band Mona Mur with Alex Hacke and F. M. Einheit from Einstürzende Neubauten,composing music and playing bass. His debut recordings were performed for their album Halber Mensch. Their collaboration continues to this decade touring with them as live sound engineer. Around 1987 he co-founded the Berlin set up of Crime and the City Solution (Simon Bonney, Bronwyn Adams, Mick Harvey, Chrislo Haas, Alex Hacke) composing music and playing bass. Crime toured Europe & the USA several times, releasing four albums with Mute Records. In 1992 they wrote and performed the song The Adversary for the Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World. Further film soundtracks followed. 1993 enjoyed the next Mute release Phew with Can drummer Jaki Liebe, Mick Harvey, Alex Hacke, Chrislo Haas and the Japanese singer Phew. In 1994 Stern designed, edited and executed digitally the entire soundtrack for the short film Das Loch, starring Otto Sander (Berlinale '95). After playing bass as a guest for the band Rausch, he adventured into the digital delightenment of Artificial Intelligents. This evolved into a series of radio plays, some performed live on air, with F. M. Einheit, Ulrike Haage and Katharina Franck.