Artist
Simon Radner. Bass player. Software engineer. Builder.
Simon Radner was a working bass player for the first two decades of the 2000s. He played clubs. He recorded in a studio in Vienna. He built Bearly Bass end-to-end, on his own, without a partner, without a team.
The person who played the bass lines is the same person who wrote the code, designed the platform, and shipped it. One person across every layer of the project.
Musical background
Funk, house, and soul. As a bass player, the names that shaped him include Marcus Miller, Meshell Ndegeocello, Sonny Thompson from Prince's New Power Generation, and Larry Graham. The electronic scene coming out of Vienna in the late 1990s, particularly the world Kruder and Dorfmeister opened up, left a lasting mark.
Simon Radner shared stages with Randy Crawford (video), Ian Paice of Deep Purple (video), Judith Hill, and Joe Lynn Turner of Rainbow and Deep Purple.
From music to code
Building Bearly Bass shifted his career completely. What started as a music project turned into the thing that made him a software engineer. He completed his music ambitions and moved into engineering.
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