Who am I?

This is Torben Kolberg, I make different kinds of music under different names.
Working as an electrical engineer and entrepreneur, over the years I started having anxiety, stress and burnout symptoms. I have always loved making music, it has been a hobby since I was a little kid.

While this was going on I started making music just for myself. Little compositions which calmed me down, were interesting enough to mentally drift away on or catch enough of my attention to distract me from whatever was on my mind. But chill enough to not feed any extra anxiety.

At home, I have been listening to my self-created playlist while I work for a year now. I shared it with a friend who has ADD and ADHD and he found it very helpful as well. He convinced me to share some of it with the world. To not annoy people who were looking for the more upbeat EDM music of TimoCuentes I decided to releases this under a different name, Torben Kolberg.

I make all my music in Ableton Live 12, and use a variety of plugins and instruments from Soundtoys, Izotope, U-he, Spitfire Audio, Output and Native Instruments. I also have some old analog synthesizers my dad salvaged in the late 80s. They are noisy now, but as you can hear from my tracks, the noise and hum and crackles can be very soothing.