About HGF-Synthesizer as an enterprise:
Basically this is a small one man enterprise being constantly active now for over 9 years. In fact I'm handling any business related stuff - besides creating plugins and samples - such as maintining websites, public relation stuff, processing orders and customer emails etc. all by myself. The only helping hands are a few friends doing patches, demo tracks, and occasionally some GUI graphics. As I'm doing some very special plugins which will only attract a certain and limited range of users this is rather not going to be big business at all. But this does have some advantages making it easier to stay in business. Thus one can keep costs low which means you won't get into (financial) trouble so easy. Big business means there are big expenses and the (fairly constant) pressure to make big money so you have to ensure to serve the taste of the masses. On the small level you don't have such pressure instead you have far more creative freedom to do even some more unconventional stuff like e.g. the HGF Music Machines. Doing fairly unconventional stuff together with the typical HGF sound has become kinda trademark of HG Fortune. And, besides doing quality plugins at reasonable i.e. moderate prices putting out fully usable free versions is making fame far bigger than actual business. But each sale does count and does show some real support of my work and helps to carry on - thank you! |
About HG Fortune: Background of my musical and algorithmic work.
Actually all arose back in the early 90ies when I was developing some kind of tool the "generate" music from horoscope-data. It was then when I developed my very own system of algorithmic composition. This had been working quite well. For the technical interested visitors: the music was done with quite "simple means": Kawai K11, Kawai K4 & K4R, Peavey DPM V2, some Juno 106 and JX8P, a Kawai RV4 as FX-Unit. In 1996 that system was running fine and a release of 4 CDs was unfortunately cancelled as the label quite unexpectedly stopped its activities. Due to different circumstances that system lay dormant for several years and there was a slight change in profession leading me to work as a freelance editor for some German mags (Fachblatt, Keyboards, PC & Musik, Sound & Vision etc.) Next musical activities happened in January 2000 with a solo-performance as "Sonic Sorcerer" in the well known "Rheingarten" in Bonn. In May 2003 I did some kind of music for a good friend of mine as a help to get asleep and that led my focus back to my old algorithmic system as I did use some material from that work. As well I utilized some material from the VSTInstrument "Sun Ra" by elogoxa which drew my attention to the program SynthEdit by Jeff McClintock. Soon I realized the potential of SynthEdit so in June 2003 I started to "go forward to the roots" in reviving my old algorithmic system. It took me until end of August til the "system" was running to produce some more complex things. Later in 2003 I did my 1st public free VSTi plugin "Wheel of Fortune" as a subset of my algorithmic system. Since then development of VST-Instruments and Soundsets is taking most of my time there is hardly space left to make music. |
It all started in the early 70ies
My first inspiration to do music myself came in 1971 when I listened to the German band "Xhol". In that time they were doing long, floating improvisations very good to drift into other dimensions. Further Influences came from Hawkwind, Amon Düül II, Nektar, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze etc. just to mention only the better known. From 1974 - 1977 we had a band called Aldebaran which started as a Rock-combo but at the end of 1975 changed to an electronic formation utilizing organs, synthesizer, e-guitars and a very little percussion. There had been a few regional performances til mid 1979. |
In 1983/84 the next project started together with Horst "Dorian" Schaefer as H2S+E. Quite soon Mathias Eigelshoven from Ex-Aldebaran joined on bass-guitar. We did some kind of experimental rockmusic as a synthesis of rock and electronic. After several succesful performances the band split due to Horst's moving to Vienna/Austria and this led to my change of placeas well.
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Contact:
email: hgf[-at-]hgf-synthesizer[-dot-]com HG Fortune via G. Hager Almaweg 49 D-53347 Alfter Phone: 0228/5344207 |
According to German law for small enterprise there is no Tax ID required. (Gem. $19 UStG keine USt-ID Steuernummer bei Kleinunternehmer)
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