Press Reviews about Moritz at South By Southwest 2019
Variety: "The Best Music We Saw at SXSW 2019"
17. 03. 2019, Jeff Miller and Charlie Amter
"Dresden and Berlin-based beatmaker Moritz Simon Geist is a step ahead of his peers when it comes to a live show, as he proved during SXSW over multiple engagements to anyone lucky enough to have caught his set. Watching the tall German perform electronic music live is akin to viewing a mad scientist in a lab… and in his mobile lab are small analog hand-built motors that click, 3D-printed robo-kalimbas that vibrate, salvaged parts from old hard drives that whir — all set up in a triangle tower of techno. " MORE
Rolling Stone: "From Sao Paolo’s Bixiga 70 to the see-it-to-believe-it EDM of Moritz Simon Geist" David Fricke
"The soundtrack, though, was a long way from Vangelis’ creamy futurism, more like the terse, clattering schematic of Kraftwerk’s “Pocket Calculator” set to the insistent propulsion of Neu. Geist has made an album with his family of enablers, Robotic Electronic Music, but this is that rare electronic dance music that needs to be seen to be believed, as close as possible. " MORE
Ars Technica: "You call that EDM? Moritz Simon Geist’s (..) "
Nathan Mattise - 4/6/2019
"Something futuristic is going on at the stage, but they aren't sure what's really happening—it's like, 'What the fuck is going on? It's cool, but I don't actually know what's going on,'" MORE
DLF: "SXSW-Festival 2019 in Texas Analoge elektronische Musik und eindringlicheBotschaften" Florian Schairer 16.03.2019
"Moritz Simon Geist ist zum ersten Mal bei der SXSW in Austin und durfte gleich auch der Opening Night spielen, denn seine Musikroboter passen perfekt zum Programm – 10 Tage lang geht es hier um Technik und Musik. Sein Album „Speculative Mashine“ wurde komplett von Robotern eingespielt. Dazu hält er hier Vorträge auf der Konferenz und tritt mit seinen tönenden und leuchtenden Soundskulpturen live auf. Jeden Tag 1-2 Mal."
ENGADGET: "Robots are playing ASMR-infused techno at SXSW"
Jessica Conditt, 11.03.19
"Geist, who teaches a class on the evolution of technology and society at NYU Berlin, is convinced robots will only become more integrated into the music industry as time passes, just as they're infiltrating wider society. Robots and artificial intelligence are tools, he said, and like any tool, they're neither inherently good nor bad. It all depends on how we use them."
QUELLE: https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/11/robot-techno-music-moritz-simon-geist/
"SXSW Music Review: Moritz Simon Geist/Daniel Brandt"
Christina Garcia, 14. 03. 2019
"If robots are coming to replace you, Moritz Simon Geist is a creative oracle. Five small bots set up like high-tech dioramas on stage at Seven Grand on Wednesday “played” techno with Geist at the helm tinkering, but maybe tomorrow they’ll play you like a fiddle."
Austin Cronicle: German musician creates robotic electronic music
Christina Garcia, 15. 03. 2019
"For his debut LP, Robotic Electronic Music, he only used robots he built, 3-D printed, or salvaged and engineered back to life. The Dresden-born visionary built a pneumatic hi-hat that looks like a medical device and doubles – with the other music robots that click, cut, hum, and whir – as an art installation. His 2018 bow sounds like the Swedish Chef using his kitchen for techno before the popcorn explodes. "
QUELLE: https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2019-03-15/moritz-simon-geist/