Departure From the Northern Wasteland
Synthesist, Michael Hoenig, is an innovative composer at the  forefront of new music. A former member of Agitation Free and Tangerine  Dream, he was in the vanguard of Europe's electronic music scene since its  earliest days in Berlin.Born in Hamburg, Germany, Hoenig moved to Berlin  when he was three. His early interests were in photography and painting and  he began his exploration into music in the late 1960s. Hoenig strived to  discover new sounds and new forms of music. Bypassing a classical music  education, he first approached the synthesizer without preconceived notions  of how it should be played or what it should sound like, and maintained a  strong commitment to exploiting all of its possibilities for sound and tone  color.