The person
Pierre (Bob) Stephan
Electronic musician and operator of Electri_C_ity Studios in Bad Liebenstein (Schweina), Thuringia. Under exactly this spelling of his name, the German National Library holds 318 releases from 2020–2026.
The musical work
All recordsThe work is independently published: all 318 catalogue records name Electri_C_ity – Studios as publisher and Bad Liebenstein (Schweina) as place of publication. They are recorded throughout as online resources with the content type “performed music” and carry DDC class 780 (music).
Every record carries a URN in the national library’s namespace and an ISRC; with one exception a UPC is held as well. The work is therefore not merely present on platforms but permanently addressable in bibliographic terms. Identifier matrix
Radio and broadcasting
RadioElectri_C_ity Studios runs a continuous radio operation. The broadcasting platform is publicly listed (Electri C Ity Studios). A separate entertainment domain carries the stream, the player and the track history.
Software and automation
TechnologyAlongside the music there are publicly readable software and automation projects. Only projects with an open repository are shown, and what is described is what is actually in it rather than what is planned.
- Repositorypublic
- Repositorypublic
- Repositorypublic
- Repositorypublic
Public profiles
Source registerThese profiles are publicly findable and recorded in the source register. Only those marked linked are asserted as identity links (sameAs) in the structured data — for the others, belonging is not documented, merely plausible.
- artist-profileowner-confirmation-pending
- artist-profileowner-confirmation-pending
- artist-profileowner-confirmation-pending
- artist-profile
- interviewpublic-interview
Where he is on record — and where not
Public registers are the reason anyone can state something about a person and back it up. Seven of them were queried individually on 11 August 2026. The result is strikingly lopsided: the work is on record, the person is not. A national library holds 318 of his recordings. The tax administration issues a VAT number that resolves at the European Commission’s own service. Broadcast reporting runs under a label code. But not one authority file — not the German GND, not ISNI, Wikidata or MusicBrainz — has a record for the author.
- Deutsche NationalbibliothekBibliographic catalogue — collects by law what is published in Germanypresent
318 DatensätzeQueried through the public interface services.dnb.de/sru/dnb. - USt-IdNr. (EU / VIES)The business’s tax identifier, checkable across the EUpresent
DE363614431Confirmed valid at the European Commission’s service, most recently on 29 Aug 2026. - GVL-LabelnummerThe code broadcasters report played recordings underpresent
LC 105042Stated by the operator; not individually queryable in public. - GNDAuthority file for persons, run by that same libraryno entryFive hits under “Stephan, Pierre” — all other people, the closest a French natural scientist born 1980. Unchanged on 29 Aug 2026.
- ISNIInternational identifier for creators and performersno entryThe record under this name holds Breton and French works and belongs to a different musician — fed from MusicBrainz and the French national library.
- WikidataOpen knowledge base many services draw their person data fromno entryNo entry — neither for the person nor for Electri_C_ity Studios.
- MusicBrainzOpen music database feeding Spotify, Last.fm and many appsno entryNone of his ISRCs is held there; checked against two control numbers that do resolve.
3 of 7 registers hold an entry.
The two name forms
alternateName.One thing is expressly not settled by that: which third-party accounts belong to this person. Each profile is a claim of its own, and each is tested on its own. Only accounts passing one of two tests are emitted as sameAs — the same recording identifier as the catalogue, or a link back to the operator’s own legal notice. On 11 August 2026 that was 4 accounts: Deezer (247 ISRCs shared with the catalogue, 232 of them with identical dates), Apple Music (all 200 retrievable releases name the same publisher in the ℗ line as the library), YouTube (links to the legal notice) and SoundCloud. The professional networks findable under the same name are left out — two different LinkedIn profiles carry this spelling, which shows directly that a matching name also locates other people. Spotify is left out too: the titles match, but without an access key the platform releases no recording identifier, and matching titles prove nothing.
How the two forms are distributed can be counted. The catalogue uses one throughout; the internally held releases use both:
- Catalogue · authorised form
- Pierre (Bob) Stephan — 318 mentions
- Internal · divergent form
- Pierre Stephan — 12 releases
- Internal · matches catalogue
- Pierre (Bob) Stephan — 10 releases
The decision is documented internally as an identity assertion with its evidence, including what it does not cover. Traceable under Provenance and in the knowledge graph.
