The official home of KORG Berlin, set up by Tatsuya Takahashi and Maximilian Rest.

Korg Berlin

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Welcome to the home of KORG Berlin, set up by Tatsuya Takahashi and Maximilian Rest.
Our products need to be worth the heat to smelt the ore, the hands in the assembly, the gasoline burnt to carry, the space in your minds and the voice to which it is married.
KORG Berlin is a transdisciplinary development team of ten people designing new musical instruments. We recognise that releasing a product always has societal, cultural, economical and environmental impact.
Our goal is to be positive 
in every one of them.

Design &amp; Development: <a class="underline" href="https://martinwecke.de/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martin Wecke</a> 
Typeface: <a class="underline" href="https://floriankarsten.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florian Karsten</a> 
Web Direction: Verena Glup 
Architecture: <a class="underline" href="https://burohacke.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Max Hacke</a> &amp; Felix Xylander Swannell

Conas atá sibh?
I&#8217;m Iarla. I like making noise and telling computers what to do, which I&#8217;ll be doing in our quest to create beautiful new instruments here.
Otherwise, you&#8217;ll find me exploring Berlin by bike or composing tunes!

Iarla

Hey I am Anna
and the fastest eater in the office – so hide your veggie burgers, as I can easily eat two.
Besides that I’m obsessed with everything your granny would approve: vintage interior, vintage clothing &amp; all things gold – from rings to lamps and even fridges.
I enjoy making all admin things happen including accounting.

Anna

Hi KORG world, my name is Christian.
Those were the times when I connected that odd plastic keyboard onto the expansion port of my Commodore computer and hit the keys resulting in the quirky sound of the SX64 sound chip. How jealous I had been, when my friend Jerry got the legendary KORG M1 from the local music store.
Three decades later, I am thrilled to be invited for joining the KORG Team in Germany. As Mechanical Engineer I will support KORG Berlin putting the next generation of sustainable music devices on musicians table &#8211; Jerry, don’t be jealous!

Christian

I&#8217;m Jakub, cześć!
I love contemplating vintage technology while sipping coffee with tonic.
I ensure the electron flow in KORG devices and mill prototypes obsessively.

Jakub

Hola,
My name is Luca, based in Berlin, but Italian by birth.
I spent over half of my life cultivating a passion for Music and Dancing. They boost up my mood and my energy every day of my journey.
I&#8217;m a hardware developer mainly involved in fabrication and prototyping. I&#8217;m very eager to progress, create and be part of any projects.

Luca

Hi, I’m Lukas
I feel like a lot of my life revolves around sound &#8211; listening, studying, making and organising it. I also sometimes wear a gummy bear earring, and from asking around it seems its actually that which defines me.
At KORG Berlin, I spend time making sure things behave as as they should, and if not I usually spend some more time finding out why.

Lukas

Hello Friend.
My name is Max and at KORG Berlin I wear multiple hats:
There is one for organizational work in the executive team, another one for engineering as head of software and last but not least one in the kitchen where I like to cook up fancy dishes.
Moreover, I like to spend time in nature with friends to explore along the lines of collective ownership and alternative living. What a fun ride!

Hey! My name is Samantha, Sam for short.
Whether indoors or outdoors, I always have a hat on my head. Except for in this portrait.
At KORG Berlin, I am responsible for making instruments out of some strange and beautiful materials that compliment the planet. I work with a nice mix of hand and digital craft.

Samantha

Hi. I&#8217;m Tats
and I love calipers.
I&#8217;ve spent a good chunk of my life building instruments for KORG in Japan and then I left for another gig. And now, I&#8217;m back with KORG, but this time in Berlin.
I&#8217;m schooled in electrical engineering so that&#8217;s still my core competance, but I&#8217;m also heading the mechanical and industrial design here as well as running the company as CEO.
There&#8217;s nothing a good pair of calipers won&#8217;t sort out.

Tats

Ciao, I’m Verena
and I like Italy. Everything about it. Food, too, so I was intrigued being involved in giving birth to our The Pyjama Cookbook.
I am responsible for everything related to communication, working remotely in PJs from home, that is Cologne.