Stefan Paul Goetsch (born 1978), best known by the alias Hainbach, is a German YouTuber and experimental electronic music composer, based in Berlin.
[2][3] Pitchfork described Hainbach's channel as "a treasure trove of clips with titles like 'How to Make Music With a Vintage Piano Tuner' and 'Playing Live With Nuclear Instruments and Unknown Synths'.
"[4] Stefan Paul Goetsch was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, and grew up in Denzlingen at the edge of the Black Forest.
[13] In May 2022, he joined with YouTubers Cuckoo and Sam Battle of Look Mum No Computer to form a musical supergroup called Uncompressed.
The two brothers have collaborated with Hainbach on several music videos including the visual album to Light Splitting, which premiered on Fact Magazine[17] and was selected to Ars Electronica Festival in 2020.
[18] Hainbach scored the 2021 feature documentary Billions of Windows about the life of Stephen Wiltshire, directed by Sergey Stefanovich.
[20] In April 2021, Hainbach created sounds for AVAR, an augmented reality app by the Estonian artist Taavi Varm, in collaboration with the Goethe Institut in Tallinn.
[31] In a room-filling sound installation, collages of the worst comments, attacks and excerpts from the official AfD election program were slowly destroyed on self-destructing audio tape loops.
[36][37] Landfill Totems, a virtual instrument in collaboration with Spitfire Audio, was made of high-end medical, telecommunication and scientific research equipment.