Hans-Joachim Roedelius is a pioneer of the German experimental music scene. He is best known as a co-founder of Krautrock groups Cluster and Harmonia and for his work in the ambient jazz trio Aquarello. Drawn into the Berlin avant-garde scene in the mid-70s, he made his live solo debut with a microphone, a handmade flute and an alarm clock, and would go on to make radical, free-flowing electronica that roams through and around genres, collaborating with the likes of Brian Eno and cult artist Joseph Beuys. The governing principles of his uncategorizable craft, or what he terms Roedeliusmusik, are spontaneity and curiosity.
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