SCIENCE O.C.N.
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19/09/2025
Science O.C.N. has recently launched their eights' album of the second cycle, showcasing a partnership with Isi on one composition.
Embark on a sonic journey with the new album "Different Worlds," featuring three expansive tracks that transport listeners through diverse atmospheres. Each composition invites you to explore other dimensions, crafted with rich ambient textures and instrumental electronic soundscapes. Perfect for those who appreciate the depth and tranquility of ambient music, this album offers an immersive experience that will captivate and inspire. Let the ethereal melodies and intricate rhythms guide you to a place where time stands still and the mind can wander freely.
Different Worlds on bandcamp Promoclip on Youtube
Biography
SCIENCE O.C.N. was founded in 1997 with the initial aim of giving more space to certain sequences that were neglected in the structure of the CONSCIENCE songs. The project is purely instrumental and combines improvised elements with sometimes excessive sound experiments and melodies. The first album, “Linear,” was completed in 1998 but was not released on CD until 2000. During this time, the idea arose to structure the project as a concept in album cycles of 10 albums each. The first album of a cycle was to contain 10 tracks, the second 9, and so on, similar to a countdown. The cycles were named O. (Organization), C. (Collaboration), and N. (Network) in accordance with the project name.
You can find a podcast about the whole concept on the Science2-YouTube channel.
In the first cycle, the approach was to choose a different production approach for each album. In the second (current) cycle, each album contains at least one track that was created in collaboration with another artist.
All releases are to be understood as albums, regardless of the number of tracks. On platforms, the albums are sometimes incorrectly listed as EPs or even singles.
Releases
The full discography of SCIENCE O.C.N. is available on Bandcamp.
Every release is part of the conceptual album cycles and reflects the evolution of the project—from early improvisations and experimental beginnings to collaborative works of the current cycle.
Discography
Different worlds (Album) | 2025
- Life without us 11:42
- Scenes from a play 13:37
- Lost on a strange planet 12:18
This is the 18th album by Science O.C.N. and the eighth album of cycle two.
All tracks written and produced by RI except 3. by RI and ISI. All instruments by RI, except flute on 3. by ISI.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by RI at Science2.
Cover by RI.
Thanks to cs for advice.
Connect! (Album) | 2024
- Emotional sounds 07:34
- Shared circuits 13:05
- Mirror neurons 10:10
- Tactile stimulation 06:42
This is the 17th album by Science O.C.N. and the seventh album of cycle two.
All tracks written and produced by RI and TJ except 3. by RI.
All instruments by RI.
Additional production on 1. by cs.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by RI at Science2.
Cover by RI.
Thanks to TJ for additional production and cs for advice.
Released on areaDB.
You can find a video to "Emotional sounds" on the Science2-YouTube channel.
Polarised (Album) | 2023
- Default theory 06:43
- Unstable technology 07:29
- Process engine 04:56
- Remote commands 09:15
- Destroy the database 13:11
This is the 16th album by Science O.C.N. and the sixth album of cycle two.
Written and produced by Science O.C.N.
All instruments by RI.
Additional bits on 5. calculated by CS.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by RI at Science2.
Released on areaDB.
You can find a video to "Process engine" on the Science2-YouTube channel.
Artwork by Sebastian Sollfrank.
Music for lockdowns (Album) | 2022
- Cognitive overload 06:55
- Cipher machines 05:00
- Codebreakers 04:29
- Merchants of death 06:38
- Manipulating energy 04:33
- Under surveillance 06:55
This is the 15th album by Science O.C.N. and the fifth album of cycle two.
Written and produced by Science O.C.N.
All instruments by RI except additional instruments on 2 by neon and the Wolf!
Recorded, mixed and mastered by RI at Science2.
Released on areaDB.
You can find a video to "Codebreakers" on the Science2-YouTube channel.
There is also a podcast about the album on the Science2-YouTube channel.
Artwork by Sebastian Sollfrank.
The white plain (Album) | 2021
- Managing the dreamworld 06:16
- Black connections 06:15
- States of nature 04:28
- New patterns of thought 09:19
- Changing gods 05:18
- The beauty and the east 04:53
- Let the algorithm decide 07:49
This is the 14th album by Science O.C.N. and the fourth album of cycle two.
1, 4, 5 and 7 written and produced by Science O.C.N.
2, 3 and 6 by Science O.C.N. and d’hAmm.
All instruments by RI except guitars on 2 and 3 and additional instruments on 6 by d’hAmm.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by RI at Science2.
Released on areaDB.
You can find a video to "States of nature" on the Science2-YouTube channel.
There is also a podcast about the album on the Science2-YouTube channel.
Artwork by Sebastian Sollfrank.
On the shores of frozen time (Album) | 2020
- In case of symmetry 05:22
- Empire TV 05:22
- On the shores of frozen time 06:02
- Happiness is a snowflake in the rain 04:46
- Holistic analysis 04:43
- Concepts of logic 04:21
- Bleeding concrete 05:27
- The dark is just a sound 05:56
This is the 13th album by Science O.C.N. and the third album of cycle two.
Written and produced by RI.
All instruments by RI except flute on tracks 3 and 4 by Giulia Cacciavillani.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by RI at Science2.
Released on areaDB.
You can find a video to "Empire TV" on the Science2-YouTube channel.
The track was also released on the CD-sampler "Zero gravity electronic vol.2" on Aucourant records.
Artwork by Sebastian Sollfrank.
Captured by light (Album) | 2019
- Captured by light 04:35
- Forgetting the future 07:03
- Xplaining 05:34
- Enhanced 07:20
- Downtime 05:56
- The rain remains unchecked 06:20
- Last mile to eternity 04:18
- D-Bug 04:54
- Highly unlikely 04:40
This is the 12th album by Science O.C.N. and the second album of cycle two.
The tracks 2, 4 and 6 are the result of a collaboration with Cosmic seed (www.twistednoise.de/cosmic-seed/).
Written and produced by RI. All instruments by RI, except 2., 4. and 6. by Cosmic seed and Science O.C.N.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by RI at Science2.
Released on areaDB.
Artwork by Olaf Jürß.
Protocols (Album) | 2018
- Spectrum 05:15
- Prisma 05:25
- Hypothesis 06:57
- Green 4 06:52
- Blue 5 07:19
- Ocean sky revisited 03:56
- The rift 04:02
- Flying higher 04:20
- Fragments of life 06:05
- Smugglers of memory 04:11
This is the 11th album by Science O.C.N. and the first album of cycle two.
Written and produced by RI. All instruments by RI. Recorded, mixed and mastered by RI at Science2.
Vocoder on 6. and 8. by Olaf Jürß (a.k.a. The Source of Time, thesourceoftime.bandcamp.com ).
Released on areaDB.
Artwork by Sebastian Sollfrank.
Cycle one (Compilation) | 2017
- Stillstand (remastered) 04:38
- Compass (remastered) 06:28
- Life in outerspace (remastered) 07:18
- Microcosm (remastered) 05:51
- Grains of dust (remastered) 06:50
- Luna (remastered) 07:42
- Firewall (remastered) 07:42
- Alien technology (remastered) 08:25
- The genetic alliance (edit) 10:23
- NullPointerException (edit) 24:23
- The hierophant (remastered) 06:51
The first cycle started about 1998 and ended 2017. It contains 10 albums where the first album contains 10 tracks, the second 9, the third 8 and so on.
Every album has a specific „theme“ and further more, every album has a different approach regarding production.
This compilation contains the finest moments of these ten albums, completed by track 11 which was previously only available on a very limited mini-CD.
The name of this first cycle is „O“. Therefore the second cycle will be named „C“.
All tracks composed, produced, mixed and mastered/remastered by RI.
Released on areaDB.
Artwork by Sebastian Sollfrank.
NullPointerException (Album) | 2017
- NullPointerException 40:08
This is the tenth album of the first cycle and therefore only contains one track.
Composed, produced, mixed and mastered by RI.
Released on areaDB.
Artwork by RI.
Forces (Album) | 2016
- The genetic alliance 19:26
- Agents of the negasphere 21:27
This is the ninth album of the first cycle.
Composed, produced, mixed and mastered by RI.
One track was more hardware-driven, the other based on apps on my mobile and a lot of softsynths.
Released on areaDB.
Artwork by RI.
Conspiracies (Album) | 2015
- The sighting 18:13
- The expulsion 17:39
- Alien technology 08:25
This is the eigth album of the first cycle.
On this album I used samples a lot.
Composed, produced, mixed and mastered by RI.
Released on areaDB.
Artwork by Sebastian Sollfrank.
The virtual path (Album) | 2014
- Firewall 07:42
- Access layer 14:22
- Transparent bridging 08:03
- Internal memory 17:57
This is the seventh album of the first cycle.
Composed, produced, mixed and mastered by RI.
Additional production on 2. and 4. by TJ.
The idea was to use no guitars but rocky drums.
Released on areaDB.
Picture taken by Andi Kluge
Cover by Sebastian Sollfrank.
Lunar objects (Album) | 2012
- Kallisto 08:52
- Luna 07:42
- Phobos 08:47
- Titania 10:08
- Tethys 09:54
This is the sixth album of the first cycle.
Again I wanted to try something different: Working with hardware as source of the sounds only, like nearly 14 years ago on “Linear” but this time with more equipment and the comfort of a digital workstation. In the end some sound from softsynths remained in the tracks because I didn’t manage to replace them properly. Some instruments had a certain role in the tracks. The JV1010 was always used for drums, the 01/W for pads and so on. The album deals with different moons throughout the solar system.
Equipment: Korg 01/W, Korg Poly 800, Korg Monotron, Roland JV1010, Waldorf Microwav,e Waldorf microQ, Yamaha FS1R, Ensoniq EPS 16+, Epiphone SG G-400, BR Rouge Acoustic L6, Softsynths.
Composed, produced, mixed and mastered by RI.
Released on areaDB.
Cover by Sebastian Sollfrank.
Oceans and deserts (Album) | 2009
- Boulders 08:50
- Grains of dust 06:50
- Desert coast 06:26
- Below the waterline 15:13
- Circular flow 06:23
- Coral reef 07:45
This is the fifth album of the first cycle.
I wanted to do an album with softsynths only, because I had never done that before. I just added some guitars. This dogmatic kind of production again led to a different sound. The album is about how oceans and deserts may sound.
Equipment: Softsynths, Yamaha Telecaster
Composed, produced, mixed and mastered by RI.
Released on areaDB.
Cover by Sebastian Sollfrank.
A second reality (Album) | 2008
- Microcosm 05:51
- Black hole 06:21
- Dimension six 06:40
- Next to the core 05:24
- Overtones 05:45
- Terabyte 05:56
- The future 07:12
This is the fourth album of the first cycle.
The idea behind the album was, to create ambient sounds with other instruments than synthesizers. So I recorded guitars, bass, voices and lots of other things and added a few synth sounds. The result sounds very unique, sometimes dark, sometimes experimental. The album-concept is about things that may have a second reality that we don’t see, another dimension that we don’t understand.
Equipment: Waldorf Microwave, Waldorf microQ, Kawai CA 1000, Roland JV1010, Yamaha Telecaster, Yamaha Bass BB424, BR Rouge Acoustic L6, Mandoline, Softsynths.
Composed, produced, mixed and mastered by RI.
Released on areaDB.
Cover by Sebastian Sollfrank.
Artifacts (Album) | 2005
- Underwater cities 05:30
- History moves on 03:50
- Unknown signs 05:00
- Screams and whispers 05:41
- Messages 05:50
- Alien machine 05:39
- Drifting through centuries 05:28
- Life in outerspace 07:18
This is the third album of the first cycle.
The use of softsynths and effects became more and more important and so this release is dominated by those elements. This led to a very special sound on this album. Most of the tracks have a darker approach than former tracks. On “Artifacts” I used some voice-samples which also dealt with the main theme of the album: Ancient civilizations. I didn’t manage to put the album out as a CD, so the album was available as CD-R. “Artifacts” was also released as digital download on Dream academy (2007) and later on AreaDB.
Equipment: Waldorf microQ, Waldorf Microwave, Yamaha FS1R, Roland JV1010, Kawai K2000, Yamaha Telecaster, Softsynths.
Composed, produced, mixed and mastered by RI.
Photo by anomalous images. Cover by Sebastian Sollfrank.
The character of numbers (Album) | 2002
- Gravitation 07:33
- Stillstand 2 03:30
- Science network 06:25
- Transformation 04:56
- Solution 03:04
- Compass 06:28
- ∞ 06:52
- Display 06:28
- The last number 04:29
This is the second album of the first cycle.
On this album new equipment was used and the production-process became very computer-based. I tried to keep a balance between the use of hard- and software.
The concept of the album is all about numbers and therefore an advancement of “Linear”. I didn’t manage to put the album out as a CD, so the album was available as CD-R.
“The character of numbers” was later also released as digital download on AreaDB.
The compilation “Relax Deluxe - Space Meditation (feat. Science O.C.N.)” contains the track “Solution”.
“Relax Deluxe - Robotronic Lounge (feat. Science O.C.N.)” contains 3 tracks from the album.
Equipment: Korg 01/W, Waldorf Microwave, Roland JV1010, Yamaha FS1R, Akai S2000, Softsynths, Yamaha Telecaster
Composed, produced, mixed and mastered by RI.
Cover by Sebastian Sollfrank.
Linear (Album) | 2000
- Unveiled 06:03
- Stillstand 04:39
- File one 07:11
- Oscillating dreams v2.0 04:12
- Linear part I (Space) 09:18
- Linear part II (Time) 03:35
- Autumn 08:15
- Trust 07:18
- Konvex 05:08
- Binary heart 06:42
This is the first album of the first cycle.
The tracks for “Linear” were recorded in 1998 and 1999. For some reasons the release of the CD was delayed. So it came out in 2000.
During that time the track “File two” was replaced by the track “Konvex”. “File two” ended up on the “Basis EP” which was released before the album.
“Konvex” was the only track which was recorded on harddisk (using Cubase via a Midiman Delta66), all others on a Sony DAT-Recorder (I still can hear the difference). It also contains the only sound by a softsynth on this album.
The CD wasn’t really mastered. The track “Unveiled” is some kind of a remix of the track “Veils over water” which was released on the album, “Scope” by CONSCIENCE in 1995. The track “Autumn” is based upon a sequence which was first used in the track “On the screen” by CONSCIENCE from the album “Phases”. “Oscillating dreams” was reworked several times. Version 2 ended up on the album.
First it was the concept of this project to use elements from CONSCIENCE and put it in another context. But this only happened on this album. The musical concept of this album was to deal with linearity in its various forms (“Linear Part I and II” and “Stillstand” being the best examples). Although I was influenced by acts like Tangerine dream, I tried to put some more sinister elements in. One task was not to sound like the so called “Berliner Schule”. A lot of sounds were edited and modulated live during the recording.
The track “Stillstand” also appeared on the sampler “Triton Vol. III” in 2002. “Linear” was later also released as digital download on AreaDB.
Equipment: Korg 01/W, Waldorf Microwave, Yamaha TG 500, Akai S2000, Yamaha Telecaster
Composed, produced, mixed and mastered by RI. Recorded digitally in 1998 and 1999.
CD released on KAFUE-Systeme.
Cover by Theresa Haufe.
You can listen to most of the releases on scienceocn.bandcamp.com.
Downloads
This part provides free downloads of selected albums and individual tracks.
All files are virus-checked ZIP or RAR archives (get WinRAR), unless otherwise indicated.
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