Sale includes late musician’s vocoders, flute, sunglasses and bike he rode in Tour de France video
He was a pioneer of electronic music whose band Kraftwerk redefined the sound of pop and influenced artists from David Bowie and New Order to Coldplay and Run-DMC.
Now the electronic equipment and musical instruments that Florian Schneider used to create some of the band’s best-known songs in the 1970s and 1980s could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars when they are sold at auction next month.
Music for a solo project that Schneider was working on just before he died from cancer aged 73 in 2020 can be heard for the first time in a video about the auction shared with the Guardian.
Alongside his suitcase synthesiser, his flute and his vocoders – which he used to make his voice sound like a robot – fans will get a chance to buy nearly 500 of Schneider’s personal possessions in the sale by his estate.
