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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.

institutionally catalogued318 catalogue recordsname forms confirmed
318
catalogued works
2020–2026
period
4
repositories
56
sources

The musical work

All records

The 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

Radio

Electri_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

Technology

Alongside 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.

Public profiles

Source register

These 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.

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 Germany
    present318 DatensätzeQueried through the public interface services.dnb.de/sru/dnb.
  • USt-IdNr. (EU / VIES)The business’s tax identifier, checkable across the EU
    presentDE363614431Confirmed valid at the European Commission’s service, most recently on 29 Aug 2026.
  • GVL-LabelnummerThe code broadcasters report played recordings under
    presentLC 105042Stated by the operator; not individually queryable in public.
  • GNDAuthority file for persons, run by that same library
    no 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 performers
    no 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 from
    no entryNo entry — neither for the person nor for Electri_C_ity Studios.
  • MusicBrainzOpen music database feeding Spotify, Last.fm and many apps
    no entryNone of his ISRCs is held there; checked against two control numbers that do resolve.

3 of 7 registers hold an entry.

Why this is not a detail.An authority file is precisely the instrument libraries use to separate sameness of name from sameness of person. With no entry there is no identifier distinguishing this Pierre Stephan from the French natural scientist of the same name whom the GND has held for years (IDN 1042918821, born 1980). That confusion is exactly why this network argues from ISRC numbers rather than from names. A GND record can be requested from the German National Library; it would be the single most effective step for the discoverability of this body of work.

The two name forms

Decided on 2026-08-05. The German National Library uses “Pierre (Bob) Stephan” throughout as the authorised form; the artist’s own platform account reads “Pierre Stephan”, while the biography on that same account gives the longer form. The owner has confirmed that both denote the same person. The catalogue form remains authoritative; the shorter one is carried as 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.