Eduard Schwan's musical interests span a variety of musical genres, including, classical, world, ambient, electronica, and rock and blues. His venture "SchwanSongs" is where he writes and publishes his own musical compositions, usually classically-based music of sweet longing and hope... music meant to transcend language and cultural differences and stir the soul of the listener.

His musical influences come from a lifetime of classical, 60s-80s rock, electronica, and world/folk music from many countries (South America, Russia, Japan, Ireland, ...) A few influential names are: Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Loreena McKennitt, Yamasaki Hako, Tears for Fears, Enigma, J.S. Bach, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Beethoven, Haydn, Sibelius, Stravinsky.

As a teenager, he built his own electronic and software synthesizers and sound filters, learned to play clarinet, and was sound engineer for a short-lived high school rock & roll band. In college, his interest in computers and synthesizers led him to writing his own music... one note at a time. He stopped writing for a decade while raising his children, but has now returned with a passion. Today, he has a Macintosh-based studio in his den, and has written a number of short pieces of music, from classical, ragtime, and ambient electronica genres. A couple of his pieces have been broadcast on KSVY FM radio in Sonoma, California, and he has collaborated on his music with other musicians around the world via the internet. He has also produced a short computer animated music video, and is working on a second one.

Music is hardly his only interest. By profession he is a software engineer, and has written factory automation software, educational software for elementary schools, game software, natural language translation software, and is currently writing income tax software. He has run a home-based Macintosh shareware company for many years, and created the popular Quicktime movie utility "MooVer" which took the coveted 5-mice rating in MacUser magazine. He also wrote and published a 3D computer graphics book called "Ray Tracing for the Mac/CD", and is co-inventor on a couple of patents. Although he's lived in California all his life, he likes traveling, and has been to Japan, Canada, Bavaria, Austria, the UK (and stood within the circle at Stonehenge), France, the Yucatan, and even went to Detroit once.  He also loves photography, filming educational/travel movies, drawing, being married and being a dad.

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AVAILABLE:

Debut DVD Release: Dance of the Technoids
(NTSC – Region 1)

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DVD Features:

(sample)

• The 3D music video is exquisitely rendered for high-quality DVD, with captivatingly realistic CGI that surpasses many Hollywood CGI films.
  
• Bonus material includes a 10-minute behind-the-scenes commentary by Eduard, who describes the origins of the Technoids, shows how the music was written, and how the 3D computer graphics sequences were designed. There are also peeks at early storyboards and design sketches for the video.
  
• Extra video footage of Ian playing his own composition on his guitar.
  
• A trailer for an upcoming SchwanSongs music video, the mysterious "Fractal Serenity".
• Approximate total running time – 15 minutes
• NTSC – Region 1