On Thursday 29 June I had a meeting with Angela Lorenz at her home studio in eastern Prenzlauer Berg.

Angela predominantly works for the music industry and has an enviable history of commissions for clients in the more obscure areas of the electronic music world. Her work appears to have strong affiliations with the music that it presents.

Angela is fascinated with process and that has led to the development of a unique working method. Angela is interested in the process involved in the creation of images and often uses unconventional means to generate her images.

One of her favoured production tools is a software package called Max. Max is not conventional design software but rather a graphical programming environment. Max was developed for, and is predominantly used by, musicians and sound artists. Max is extremely powerful and versatile and Angela utilises Max in much of her work.

The way in which Angela works with Max could almost be described as working blind. She does not create and manipulate images using conventional means but produces images through the use of the programming environment that Max offers.