# The Palatin Project

> The Palatin Project is the electronic music project of German musician and storyteller Bernhard Kretz from Giengen upon Brenz (Giengen an der Brenz), southern Germany. It tells musical stories with synthesizers, vocoders and sequencers ("electronic music from outer space") and integrates spoken word in many languages and poetry, especially by Robert Graves, into its music.

## Key facts

- Name: The Palatin Project
- Artist: Bernhard Kretz (composer, producer, sound designer)
- Origin: Giengen upon Brenz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Genre: electronic music, space music, ambient, spoken word with electronic music
- Active since: 1996 (first releases on cassette)
- Releases: more than 20, including Orbiter (2008), Vortex (2008), Infinity – The Nightflight Trilogy (2008), Aphelion (2010), Nebula (2011), Magneticon (2013), Nox (2014)
- In production: Electron, an album on which every track features a poem by Robert Graves
- Ongoing project: The Babelfish Collection – spoken word in as many languages as possible, set to electronic music
- Also works as sound designer for mobile game apps (Scorpius Forge, Ulm)
- Influences named by the artist: Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, The Doors, Synthesizerstudio Bonn

## Main pages

- [Welcome](https://palatin-project.com/): introduction to The Palatin Project and its projects
- [About](https://palatin-project.com/about): who Bernhard Kretz is and how he works
- [History](https://palatin-project.com/history): history of electronic music and the artist's own path
- [Music](https://palatin-project.com/music): selected tracks to listen to and the complete discography
- [Clips](https://palatin-project.com/clips): music videos such as Deeply Rooted (Aphelion VII) and Nostalgia, Solaris
- [Poetry](https://palatin-project.com/poetry): poems by Robert Graves, William Carlos Williams, Dunyi Zhao, Yvette Coetzee and others set to music
- [Games](https://palatin-project.com/games): sound design for mobile games
- [Stuff](https://palatin-project.com/stuff): essays on electronic music, John Cage, cover-art downloads
- [Lost](https://palatin-project.com/lost): background topics such as Stanisław Lem, unicorns and the Palatinate

## Selected tracks

- Aphelion 7
- Die Plaas (feat. Yvette Coetzee, Afrikaans poem)
- Trading the World
- Always – Introducing the Project (poem by Robert Graves)
- Friday Night (poem by Robert Graves)
- Die Planetenbahnen
- Pan im Park (poem by Olga Manji)
- Nightflight Part 2 (Arrival), from Infinity – The Nightflight Trilogy

## Contact

- [Contact page](https://palatin-project.com/contact)
- Native English speakers who want to record poems by Robert Graves for the album Electron are welcome to get in touch.

## Optional

- [Credits](https://palatin-project.com/credits)
- [Links](https://palatin-project.com/links)
- [Sitemap](https://palatin-project.com/sitemap.xml)