black-tech is a musician and visual artist. Growing up in the vicinity of the Oberhausen steelworks, she was early on shaped by the images and sounds of heavy industry: the red-glowing sky during the tapping of the blast furnace, the rhythmic labor of the rolling mills, the monumental presence of steel, heat, and machines. This industrial landscape became a central element of her perception and later of her artistic expression.
Her childhood was marked by difficult family circumstances. An important constant was the close and warm relationship with her father, who himself worked in a rolling mill. Through him, the emotional connection to the steelworks and the industrial working environment remained alive. After breaking free from this burdensome setting, black-tech entered another problematic relationship that, over many years, distanced her from her artistic interests and brought her musical activity almost to a standstill.
After the end of this exhausting and consuming phase of life, she found her way back to her artistic identity. She turned once again to music and also resumed drawing and painting. In her visual works, she combines her deep affection for the iron-producing industry - especially coking plants and blast furnaces - with her fascination for astronomy and science fiction. Industrial facilities appear embedded in cosmic, alien landscapes, while technical processes become symbols of energy, transformation, and time.
This connection also shapes her music. black-tech works in the field of electronica, developing an independent sonic language situated between industrial, ambient, and experimental electronics. Electronic structures are interwoven with realistic sounds of heavy industry - metallic impulses, machine-like rhythms, and low-frequency resonances forming the foundation. These are complemented by futuristic soundscapes that evoke associations with science fiction and cosmic vastness.
The track "Hochofen A" is exemplary of black-techs musical approach. It deliberately avoids conventional song structures in favor of an atmospheric progression in which sound, space, and rhythm merge into an acoustic architecture. Industrial noises do not function as effects, but as structural elements of the composition. The mechanical pulse recalls real production processes, while futuristic sound design opens the sonic space toward the future. "Hochofen A" stands out for its conceptual clarity, spatial depth, and a strong, unmistakable artistic signature.
black-tech connects sound and image, biography and industry, earth and cosmos. Her art moves between documentary proximity and visionary abstraction - raw, technical, and at the same time poetic. She positions herself beyond conventional genre boundaries and addresses an audience that understands electronic music and industrial aesthetics as expressions of history, transformation, and visions of the future.
