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Today on Line Noise we have a very special guest indeed: Karl Bartos. Bartos was a member of the legendary electronic music group, Kraftwerk, from 1974 to 1990, co-writing many of their best-loved hits, including The Robots, Neon Lights and my own favourite The Telephone Call. His autobiography; The Sound of the Machine, My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond, was published in July and it it well worth the read. In our interview we talked about the legend of Kraftwerk, creativity, the problem with Electric Café, Johnny Marr, Florian Schneider and more.

 With Karl Bartos 

Line Noise Episode 108 (Karl Bartos)

Lucy Kirkwood

Karl Bartos, musician and composer, on his life in the German band Kraftwerk - as told in his new memoir The Sound of the Machine.Playwright and screenwriter Lucy Kirkwood on her play Maryland - devised in response to normalisation of violence against women, and originally staged at Royal Court Theatre in London in 2021, it has now been adapted for BBC TV screens. The Spooky Men’s Chorale: the strangely comedic but musically marvellous and popular Australian male voice choir stop off in the middle of their UK tour to sing and talk to Samira Ahmed about Georgian polyphony, Swedish folk band Abba, and not being a men’s group.   Presenter: Samira AhmedProducer: Julian MayImage credit: Markus Wustmann

Karl Bartos, musician and composer, on his life in the German band Kraftwerk - as told in his new memoir The Sound of the Machine. Playwright and screenwriter Lucy Kirkwood on her play Maryland - devised in response to normalisation of violence against women, and originally staged at Royal Court Theatre in London in 2021, it has now been adapted for BBC TV screens. The Spooky Men’s Chorale: the strangely comedic but musically marvellous and popular Australian male voice choir stop off in the middle of their UK tour to sing and talk to Samira Ahmed about Georgian polyphony, Swedish folk band Abba, and not being a men’s group. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Julian May Image credit: Markus Wustmann

Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Men’s Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood

Karl Bartos spielte einst mit der legendären Band "Kraftwerk" - heute tritt er unter eigenem Namen auf. Im Gespräch mit Dominik Landwehr spricht er über die Bedeutung des Visuellen in seiner Musik (12 Minuten)

Karl Bartos - Musik mit Bilder