Born in 1969 in Hamburg, Germany, Lorien spent his early years traveling the world. He lived his first few years on Ibiza, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean. There he learned to appreciate the sunny, rocky countryside where he lived with his parents and a donkey. He was also exposed to the rhythmic music of drum circles and spent lots of time by the sea. After Ibiza, he moved to America where he has lived ever since. For the next few years he lived in Los Angeles and Bolinas in California and then moved to Durham in North Carolina. For the past twenty years, Lorien has resided in the San Francisco Bay Area which is his home today.

Traveling has always been an important aspect of Lorien's life. Other than the places he lived, Lorien has traveled to many countries in Europe and around the Pacific. This rich tapestry of environments and people formed his powerful interest in geography, which he studied at UC Berkeley. Lorien's travels also exposed him to many different cultures and their musics, which he also studied at college. One of the attractions of electronic music for Lorien has been it's international nature, without lyrics there is no language barrier. Electronic music also spans time, integrating ancient tribal rhythms with ultra futuristic sounds, thereby becoming universal.

About The Internet

This universal aspect of electronic music is also reflected in another recent development of technology: the Internet. To some degree the Internet has removed the barriers of culture between the people of the world. Images and sounds now travel freely between people of vastly different and distant cultures. Language is still a barrier in this exchange, but that too will change. Lorien is interested in this fusion of the minds of the people of the earth. He is interested in the Internet as a medium of a true collective consciousness and as the seat of the first technological intelligence. Lorien hopes that by linking pieces of information together, we may be lending our intelligence to the Internet. In time, consciousness, probably different from our own, may arise spontaneously.

Currently, Lorien is looking for a way to help this process along. By integrating the international spirit of electronic music with the networking power of the Internet, he hopes to popularize these concepts. His dream is that the many people of the Earth will finally understand that they are all one race, that our various cultures can combine, and that reason can triumph over superstition. He believes that the Internet can help us to reach these realizations and promote communication, understanding, and cooperation among all of us. Lorien believes that we will only survive ourselves if we can accomplish this task and that if we follow a philosophy of selfishness instead, we will lose our humanity, and eventually our existence.