Helium Vola is a German "electro-medieval" band founded in 2001 by Ernst Horn, who was also one of the founding members of Deine Lakaien and Qntal. Helium Vola interpret medieval lyrics in a modern, electronic soundscape. The music covers a broad range of styles from dance floor pop songs to forms adapted from classical music with an emphasis on ensemble pieces. The band is mainly a studio project. However, through the years a few live performances took place, most of them featuring the project's main vocalist Sabine Lutzenberger. Formation The project was founded, when Ernst Horn was looking for a new way to pursue his idea of merging medieval poetry and music with contemporary musical approaches and modern subjects putting an emphasize on electronics. He felt a gap after leaving Qntal, because he loves the atmosphere of medieval poetry and music alike. In the contract with Chrom Records, Horn insisted on Helium Vola not being marketed as successor of Qntal. Another point was that Ernst Horn wanted to put a stronger focus on composition developing more complex song structures toward ensemble pieces, and to create his own electronic sounds. However, it was important for him to keep the simple but elegant and agile style of singing used today in the interpretation of medieval, or Early Music. Therefore, Horn started to search for a vocalist, a "main voice", for his new project, who specialized in this direction. He bought plenty compact discs from interprets of "Old Music" all over Europe and he considered himself lucky to be most captured by a singer living and working in Augsburg, a town close to Munich, where he lives himself. Sabine Lutzenberger, working with the "Ensemble für frühe Musik Augsburg", the Ensemble Mala Punica, and the Huelgas Ensemble and a singer with already high reputation in this field of music, agreed to work with Horn intrigued by the opportunity to reach a different audience than usually with this project, now named "Helium Vola", aiming for a different audience. The name based on the noble gas that is lighter than air is supposed to reflect the playful idealism that Horn felt in connection with the project. Since "Helium" was already used as a name by a band, the Italian "Vola" meaning "fly" (in the imperative) was added. Quickly, other voices for the ensemble pieces – Gerlinde Sämann (soprano), Susan Weiland (soprano), Andreas Hirtreiter (tenor), and Tobias