The Sound of the Machine

I knew some things about Karl Bartos before reading this book (mainly that he had been a part of Kraftwerk), that has now changed.
This is a biography both of the life of Karl Bartos and the music of Karl Bartos, where the musical biography is the framework of his life's story and takes center stage.
He kept a “musical journal” from early on, where he wrote down what music he was working on at the time, which is the basis of this memoir.
A good chunk of the book looks at his sixteen years with Kraftwerk, but we also get to see his musical life before (at the Robert Schumann conservatory) and after (finding his way back to his own musical expression).

This is an open and honest description of the (musical) life of Karl Bartos from the viewpoint of Karl Bartos.