Artist Profiles
Adam Howse
Adam Howse is an Experimental Composer. He studied music in Jerusalem and has been active in the underground music scenes of Berlin and Jerusalem since 2014. His work has been presented at the Venice Biennale, among others. Howse uses turntables, records, samplers and effect pedals to conjure soundscapes of confabulation. His fabricated & distorted pieces are charged with harmonic substance.
Alinovsky
Brussels, Belgium
Alain Lefebvre aka Alinovsky started to play drums with various Belgian bands early 1976. Until late 1985 he played withTuxedomoon, Anna Domino, Winstong Tong, Blaine L. Reininger, Vini Reilly (The Durutti Column), Anne Clark, Alan Rankine, Antena and Benjamin Lew among others. In 2007 he started his label Off (400+releases). When not working for the label, he tries to take time to record stuff…
Anastasia Vronsky
Anastasia Vronski is a versatile experimental musician from Perm, Russia. Since years she has been creating an impressive and quite diverse body of work. Many of her tracks can be classified as "drone "or "noise", but they always have a specific, often intriguing qualities. Above all, she's not an artist who will do the same twice.
Andreas Davids
Since 1998 I've been musically active with my project xotox in the field of industrial and rhythm and noise.
Apart from xotox, I prefer to release Dark Ambient, IDM and Experimental. As DJ ANDX, I produce mixes of all kinds, but the focus is always on dark ambient and related genres.
Andy Roid
England, UK
I have been messing around with synthesizers since the early ‘80s.
As part of psychedelic tripsters Here & Now, I toured throughout the UK and Europe.
I started doing solo shows in 2019 and have played gigs and festivals throughout the UK.
I also play in ambient dub ensemble Rubber Bus, ambient improv weirdos Somnambulance & Glastonbury based psych-pop band the Anarchetypes.
Anna Clock
Anna Clock (they/them) is an artist, composer and musician. Their work spans theatre, film, radio, installation, written texts and live music. Their practice is centred on ways of listening, and challenging audiences to listen to each other, and their world, in new ways. They play the cello and also cut hair.
anthéne
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
bradley sean alexander deschamps, curator of polar seas
Ap Ducal
Camilo Palma is a non-musician enthusiast in music performance.
Band Member in Mutrone (le rockpsychophonique), Fulin Lawen (Etcs records) and Föllakzoid (Sacred Bones).
Ap Ducal begins in 2012 as a solo project based in improvissed live sessions, atmospheric and some kind of soundtrack music.
Astral Engineering/ Simon Rees
Engineering on the astral plane. Reality you cannot rely upon since 1992.
The Astronaut
'Arrived 20 years back, sniffed the air, opened his flight case, closed it again soon after and left just as swiftly.’
ASVMR
Huntington, West Virginia
₳ §ƚɾαɳɠҽ ᗐιʂιƚσɾ M̶ყ R̳ҽαρҽɾ-- VCR shinigami. "I'm here for you"
Axiome
Axiome is a Belgian duo, currently split between Belgium and Germany, formed around 1990/1991 by Olivier Moreau and C-drík Fermont aka Kirdec. Axiome perhaps followed a unique path : from their industrial and power noise onset to glitch, breakcore, acid, and as of today, their own interpretation of electro, they keep challenging what they have done in the past.
bdou
Pronounced, 'do'.
Black Hair Rolled In Dried Blood
He sits in a small room listening to their conversations and speaking to himself.
They all listen, dying to answer their own questions. He watches his own likeness reflected in the broadcast on the screen and recognises no-one.
Black Pill Machine
New York
Black Pilled, Experimental, Dark Ambient Vibes from New York
"In A Time Of Universal Deceit, Telling The Truth Is A Revolutionary Act" -George Orwell
BMH
Black Magic Holiday. Music project of Kate Bosworth (of Dark Train fame) & Matt.
Black Sun High Desert
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Exploring sound-based creative expression in high desert of Northern New Mexico.
Bro Biden
Brobient side-project. I also record under CHROM-47 (formerly 'Man') and am the lead singer of The Hot Food Department.
Cat Tyson Hughes
Cat Tyson Hughes is an Australian composer and artist working in experimental music and contemporary art. Tyson Hughes has spent the last few years working on various music commissions by artists and theatre makers, as well as performing in band 'Fire to the Stars'.
Chantelle Gray
Johannesburg, South Africa
Chantelle Gray uses modular synthesizers, the Korg MS-20, the piano and gestural composition to create soundscapes.
Charles Monroe-Kane
Charles Monroe-Kane is a Peabody award-winning journalist with over 23 years of national on-air radio experience. He is also the author of Lithium Jesus: A Memoir of Mania. In addition, he is a recording artist with A.M.P.-RECS - a music label based in Guadalajara México that focuses on electro acoustic and experimental works.
Chris Jones
Bielefeld, Germany
Electronic guitarist. Most of the sounds you hear are processed guitars.
Christopher Alvarado
Christopher Alvarado is a multi-instrumentalist from Salt Lake City, America, who has been playing and performing ambient, experimental and sound manipulation in various guises since the mid 1980s.
Clay Monke
UK
Experimental machine music from Luke Phillips.
Cravune
Italian sound artist and music experimentalist currently based in Berlin, Germany.
Limited edition releases via Minimal Resource Manipulation (UK), Here Free Press (US), Falt (FR) and Detriti Records (DE).
Monthly show on CAMP Radio.
Cr(A)wE
Solo Improv Dark Ambient Guitar Soundscape Dronez with occasional contributions, the sound of the impending apocalypse and fridge buzz
Crossing Bridges
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The multi electronic genre project of Paul G. Marchesani
A part of the Forest Kids Collective
The Cube of Unknowing
Francis Heery (b.1980) is a composer and sound artist. His music is inspired by science-fiction, occultism and animal aesthetics. He is an accomplished improvisor and performs with a setup integrating Max/MSP with acoustic instruments and modular synths. He specializes in long-form, site-specific performances in public spaces.
His instrumental works have been performed by the RTE Symphony Orchestra, the Crash Ensemble, the Quiet Music Ensemble, the Talujon Percussion Ensemble and by soloists including Carin Levine, Pascal Galois and Izumi Kimura.
Daniel WJ McKenzie
Daniel W J Mackenzie produces work that explores various notions of listening to music and sound, combining composition, improvisation, non-musical sound and field recordings. Despite a broad range of tools and processes, there are consistencies in the nuances with which the work is constructed and presented, and the substantial presence of deep emotion and atmosphere.
DARDIS
DARDIS: Discord And Relative Depressions In Sound.
Ambient and experimental sound project for Northern Irish writer, editor and sound artist Colin Dardis.
The Dark Jazz Project
Birmingham, UK
The Dark Jazz Project is an experimental adventure into the abyss by Musician and Composer Andrew Spackman (SAD MAN, Nimzo- Indian). Here he brings his typically quixotic and mercurial approach, fusing Jazzcore, free improvisation, dark ambience into a melting pot of noise, rhythmic chaos to create a dark and unsettled future. Think Sun Ra meets Vladislav Delay.
David Donohoe
Dublin, Ireland
David Donohoe is an artist, composer, recordist, performer and improviser.
His work operates at the intersection ofinstrumentation, synthesis, field-recording and processing and involves scored works, electroacoustic presentation and solo/collaborative improvisation.
He has released on D1 Recordings, Verz imprint, Mille Plateaux, Force-Inc, Fort Evil Fruit, Fällt, Minimise, and Studiomime.
David Wallraf
Noise artist, researcher and theorist located in Hamburg. Releases on Brachliegen Tapes, Econore, Falt, Industrial Coast, Karlrecords and others. Click here for full discography. Live scores for silent movies. Co-Founder and curator of Noisexistance festival. Worked with the late Prof. Hans-Joachim Lenger on the radio project AgoRadio. Lectures on power relations in music, noise-theory, sound art/studies and the politics of listening.
Death Drive
Death Drive is the solo project of Athens-based producer Kostas Karamitas.
diseasesofvenus
Derby, UK
dov is a one man soothing psychedelic freak out solo musician/artist from the midlands u.k
dissociate
Minneapolis, USA
Science fiction-inspired dark electronic project from Jonathan Ford is spontaneity personified. For over 20 years, Ford hasbeen manufacturing aural chaos from hardware sound sources, live synthesizers, triggered samples and abused filter banks in real-time. Each Dissociate performance offers a unique exploration, bringing forth instant musical discoveries within this confined aural space.
DJ_Iterate
DJ_Iterate, aka Mystified, aka Thomas Jackson Park from St. Louis, Missouri. 'Multi-genre artist, coder, thinker, imperfect person'. Once known as the band 'Mystified', Thomas Park and his various incarnations focus on organic, enjoyable generative music, whether machine-made, performed live, or both.
Dogs versus Shadows
A rare example of gamekeeper turned poacher...a welter of impressive electronica" - Electronic Sound Magazine
DOLLGARM
Ambient experiments written in the dark; short story soundtracks to disturb and delight.
Draama
New Delhi, India
I don't know when there'll be a next time. You have to continue your own revolution of consciousness, your own sonic andolan, something you have already begun.All the resources thus far lie in the hands of the rich and as such they control the musical and cultural agenda. Before this can happen, there has to be solidarity between conscious peoples, a setting aside of petty ideological differences.
Dragon
Former resident DJ at the world's famous Slimelight and having releases/remixes on leading labels such as World Serpent, Ant Zen, Point Source Electronic Arts, Component Recordings and Errorgrid, Dragon now launches the inaugural release for Ryu Recordings
Druida
Carlos Pompeu, aka Druida and other names too
Quatro Barras, Brazil
Dystopiker
Sweden
Dystopian musician attempting to describe our somber past, present and future.
Euripides Altintzoglou (EA) is a senior lecturer in Fine Art & Photography at the University of Wolverhampton. He is a practicing artist and theorist, that examines the correlations between being and the emergence of political agency, and the phenomenology of change. His works have been exhibited around the world.
Themis Altintzoglou (Θ) is a sound artist based in Norway. He is well-known for his dark ambient, noise, and drone music, which has been released on different labels such as Industrial Coast, Total Division, Deathbed Tapes, Oxidation, Zoharum, and many more.
einnfalt
To indulge yourself, combine the spiritual and the physical food: eat, not looking up from a book or from the screen, your favorite snack — peanuts (60 g).
Elias Zorn
Leipzig, Germany
Elias Zorn uses only analog equipment including a wide selection of synthesizers, effects, and drum computers. He is also well-known for his eclectic experimental DJ-sets, as a participant of many artist collectives like Global Noise Movement, Bajos Coskillaz & FCKW, and organizer of many highly acclaimed events.
Envelope Muse
Denmark, Australia
Dark Ambient Industrial Noise Artist.
Envelope Muse: Dystopian sound for a dystopian world.
Everyday Dust
Everyday Dust is an electronic musician based in Scotland, who uses synthesizers, tape machines and transformed sounds to create his unique narrative-driven music.
Field Lines Cartographer
Lancaster, UK
Atmospheric, sometimes dark, occasionally
bucolic soundscapes. "shimmering... unsettling" -The Wire
"The sound of big, strange worlds"-Electronic Sound magazine.
Fletina
Fletina is a Scottish sound artist & field recordist who creates raw abstract audio collages using found objects, room sounds, environmental noises, household items, mechanical devices and various electronic manipulation techniques.
FLUX-US
Andrew Shackleton produces audio/visual art, under the name FLUX-US, to create immersive experiences which are intended to be transcendent. Always working from the premise that "we come from the darkness into the light" he explores and utilises esoteric, occult and psychedelic themes with both visuals and sound. He has produced work for night clubs, multimedia performances, installations for galleries and a promenadesite specific morality play.
Francis Theberge
Active since 2001, TiND (thisisnotdesign) is a video art group renowned on the Montreal scene for having developed their own techniques for live audiovisual creation. By hijacking common analog audio equipment such as the distortion pedal, TiND creates singular imagery that visually echoes the original sound material.
Their live performances are laboratories for real-time experimentation: a perfect mix of controlled improvisations with prepared interventions and mastered errors. Francis Theberge is the main character behind TiND.
Francis Theberge is also a long-time member of the artist collectives Global Noise Movement and Adventurous Music. He is also known as Thibörg.
You can find excerpts of his video work on vimeo and his DJ work on mixcloud.
Giacomo Vanelli
Giacomo Vanelli is an Italian musician and composer who creates deeply melancholic ambient and experimental electronic music that lingers between the digital and the natural.
Gnostic Rebellion
Gnostic Rebellion are an audio/visual Esoteric Electronic duo comprising Andrew Sloan (rhythm and beats) and Andrew Shackleton (melody, texture and visuals) based in Frome, Somerset UK. Hardware synthesisers, sequencers and sample based sound modules are used.
Grave Of The Opal Golum
Jason Stevens and Dave Madden. This output was manipulated and reassembled in December 2020 with the vague themes of Solstice, hibernation, the kitchen sink perspective of Throbbing Gristle, the morphing juggernaut of Bitches Brew, screams from Pharmakon, the dark atmosphere of Lustmord, and the dynamics of Drew McDowell. With this Grave of the Opal Golem was born.
Grey Frequency
Grey Frequency is the project of UK-based artist Gavin Morrow. Through the manipulation of electronics, field recordings and found sounds, he explores themes of memory, modern mythology, and the world of audio disintegration.
GURU BOBOL
Tours, France
Guru bobol is a one man band since 2012, playing with hypnotic and ambient sounds, improvisation and analogic synthesisers.
Healer Oran
Andrei van Wyk aka Healer Oran is a Johannesburg-based composer, musician and sound artist who has worked in the mediums of dance, film, performance and sound installation. He is currently an MA student in History at Rhodes University focusing on soundscapes, sonic history and dispossession in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
HELA
HELA [heːlɑ] v.
: to make free from injury or disease : to make sound or whole
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: as a complete entity
F. Iosefka is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and performative sound artist based in Sweden.
Hendekagon/ Signalstoerung/ Audible Masticators
Multidisciplinary artist, micro-label manager, and event organizer. Also known as halo7, Audible Masticators, and Hendekagon. Part of the bands, Interessengemeinschaft Für Industrielle Klangerzeugung and Vaduzer Hand. Co-creator of the Global Noise Movement Noise Floors at Wave Gotik Treffen, the Anakronism series, and Industrialisation. Co-founder of Global Noise Movement and Adventurous Music.
The Holocene
Samples / Guitar (Yamaha SU10 // MPC500 // Korg ES-1 // Cycloops) / (Tascam Portastudios) / (Delay // Chorus // Reverb)
the humble bee
Tape dust from Craig Tattersall.
Hunger
Solitary, ambiguous.
Hypnotic Transmissions
When making music, naming songs and doing the cover artwork, I try to build a story through it all. I never want to just put a release together without making sure that every element is there for a reason. I believe art is in everything around us and every genre of music has something to offer.
Ian Boddy
Composer, sound designer, DiN ambient music label owner
& analogue synth aficionado
iKKi Duo
iKKi Duo
(Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu and Fulya Uçanok) is an experimental music duo, featuring cello, piano, everyday objects with electronics. They are both performers, improvisers, composers and artist researchers, exploring contemporary, experimental, and non-conventional musicking practices. Their paths crossed in 2016 at Istanbul. Since then, they have been hooked on sounding together.
INYAN
DJane and Musician. Co-founder of Adventurous Music and Global Noise Movement. Co-creator of the Global Noise Movement Noise Floors at Wave Gotik Treffen, the Anakronism series, and Industrialisation. Experimental electronica. Plays the flute, guitar, piano, and vocal cords, but never ever plays the same set twice.
Ira Hadžić
Ira Hadžić,
born in Sarajevo / lives in Berlin, is a writer / gong player / sound artist /
deep listening® facilitator. She studied cultural anthropology and is fascinated by:
paradoxes
synchronicity
dreaming
nonlinearity
wabi-sabi
coconuts
olive soap
Jack Hertz
Jack Hertz is an artist/programmer/synthesist & producer from Pacifica, CA
and is person behind the Aural Films label.
John Americus Witt
John Americus Witt (3 February 1809 – 10 December 2010) was an American composer in the Modern Unclassical tradition. Known primarily for his posthumously released four-part symphony, “Cyclothymia”, musical scholars have long surmised that there are any number of works yet to be discovered. Any attempts to uncover said lost work have thus far been unsuccessful, though it is rumored that a trunk of ancient manuscripts, Reel-to-Reel tapes, DAT’s, and a few burned CD’s were recently acquired by a private collector. One can only hope that these make their way into the public forum, if only to shed some light on this largely mysterious figure.
John Wiggins
John Wiggins is best known as an Emmy winning film and television sound designer, working for HBO and his own production company, Wonderland Sound. Wiggins is a master of the techniques of musique concrete, his experimental work often consists of painstakingly arranged synthetic and natural sounds that create extraordinary "living" audio environments. In 2017 Wiggins was one of the distinguished winners of "PRESQUE RIEN" Luc Ferrari Prize.
Jon Watkins
The Ghost of/that is Jon Watkins is a Composer/Guitartist in a small room but a big world from the land of Montreal
JONNY
“JONNY is a dabbled in music project that focuses on Serene ambient textures and thrilling Jungle/DnB beats. I don’t have any music theory so mainly I wing it and see what happens”
Juice Machine
Eugene, Oregon, USA
Wife and husband
Heather Chessman and Roger Smith(CHEFKIRK) played electronics and tapes in the Pacific Norhtwest.
Kamil Kukla
Visual artist and musician, born in 1989 in Tarnów, PL. Living and working in Kraków.
kaolu_euphony
kaolu_euphony as independent music composer, bedroom music producer, arranger, sound designer, begins in 2013.
Tokyo, Japan
KASA
Cape Town, South Africa
helo is an artist based in Cape Town, South Africa creating solo sound works under the title "kasa" since 2003. Creating sound and trying to capture it has always been a raw, DIY experience out of necessity due to the lack of resources and no formal training. influenced by punk, shoe gaze, atmospheric drone, noise, folk, doom, drone, metal, hip-hop, broken things & orchestra.
Kate Bosworth
Presenter of Dark Train on Warminster Community Radio every Monday 2200hrs GMT.
Noise purveyor with BMH.
Katy Coxwell
‘I love modular synths. I feel like the only time I exist is when I use them. I come in to existence as the voltages flow through the cables and I dissappear when the power is turned off and that’s all.'
Kidaisey
Visual Artist from the UK, expressing through multiple genres - UK Jungle to Experimental Textured IDM - from Post-Rock Shoegaze to Sludge Doom Metal. Sharing what I create along the way.
Kid Mania
Experimental artist / producer / DJ living in Northern Ontario, Canada.
KiEw
Lüneburg, Germany
What happens if you put an entire table full of effects, controller, mixer, synthesizers, tiny noise machines and groove boxes between a bass and a guitar? Then certainly KiEw from Lüneburg will enter the stage and light a firework of danceable sound between dadaistic electro-punk, rhythm’n’noise and breakbeat loaded industrial-techno.
Knitted Tongues
Knitted Tongues is a collective consisting of Em Doodles, Sandra Zanetti, and Meej Douglas, concerned with using improvised sound to enact a moment of harmony and dissonance between instrument, body and object. Through power dynamics, expanded consciousness, depersonalisation, drone, and synchronicity, sound becomes the medium by which performer and audience merge and decay into a thick sludge of obscurity.
KP Transmission
Moscow, Russia
Karina works in experimental electronic styles and employs a unique unconventional aesthetic both in her tracks. Her hazy and grainy compositions sounds murky and chthonic, containing a vague feeling of uneasiness, blurry, obscure atmosphere.
Kῦμα / The Logically Undefined
Andy Green aka Kῦμα, The Logically Undefined, Quest… is an electronic music producer, sound designer & DJ.
Purveyor of sonic beats & pieces since 1990.
Music For Your Body - Music For your Mind!
K43DG3
Kentucky, USA
Contemplative psychoacoustic soundscapes.
Sculpted noise; sometimes soothing, sometimes uncomfortable. Sometimes both.
Lark Wool
After his Incidental Music period from the 80ties, Jack Ison started a new project in 2012: Lark Wool.
LAST EDEN
Last Eden is an experimental music project by multidisciplinary artist, Aileen Wallace. Wallace is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and sound artist. Last Eden unites her passion for ambient music, improvisation, and sound art using bespoke DIY microphones, cassette recorders, synthesizers, and an array of unusual performance methods, and tools, drawing from both the analog and digital realms.
Late For Start
Late For Start is a collab project between Антон Сердотецков aka Tony Deus (www.facebook.com/tonydeusidm) and Александр Бурцев aka Цветы Пустоты (t.me/Iamcursed)
Lauré Lussier
I am a sound artist and composer. I merge electroacoustic language and tonal language. I think I baptized this fusion "Electrotonal Music"! I like to offer you music with references to sounds of familiar instrument, mixed with new and unknown electronic sounds, all in melodic mixtures of colors, intensity, textures, and emotions unique to each piece. I hope you enjoy and wish you a good listening!!
L.
the [law-rah] collective
expect the unexpected, and even then you're way off ...
the [law-rah] collective is a (mostly) utrecht-based collective of artists working with words, sounds, rhythm, structure, chaos and anything we can get our hands on.
in the field of electronic music active since 2001, but the first seeds were planted in 1993.
"i wonder what the future holds"
- the sky's gone out, bauhaus
The Lifted Index
Atlanta, Georgia
The Lifted Index is an ambient electronic project from Daniel DeWitt. Based outside of Atlanta, Daniel creates music with synthesizers, voice, and electric guitar. Emphasizing texture and emotion, The Lifted Index conjures sonic worlds within songs.
Lou Smith
Lou Smith is a multidisciplinary artist, based in South-East London. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering film and photography of the burgeoning South London underground rock scene, helping launch the careers of numerous new bands.
His other interests/ skills include Screenprinting, Jewellery-making and, importantly, pondwatching.
Malady of Knots
Wirral, UK
Experimental electroacoustic project beginning in 2009.
Manuel Carbone
Experimental sound recordist. Electroacoustic enthusiast. Abstract compositions, field recording, synths and tape loops.
maps and diagrams
"maps and diagrams" is well known in the world of electronic music. He releases on several labels such as Static Caravan, Expanding Records and Smallfish. In addition to that, he collaborated with many other labels, released tracks on compilations and did remixes. Apart from releasing music, he also co-runs Cactus Island Recordings with Steve Broca.
Mark Hjorthoy aka The Deep Bleed
Recording Artist/Sound Designer/Visual Artist/Writer & Radio Interviewer fromVancouver, B.C. Canada. I make music on my own under my name, as well as The Deep Bleed. I also work with Dan and Cristina Handrabur, and Don Verbrilli as Blinking Things. Sometimes with Don Verbrilli as Telefuzz. I can be found on record labels all over the world. It’s nice to meet you.
Marla Van Horn
Marla Van Horn (M.Weiss) is a Poland/Finland based artist, musician, singer with an unique and mesmerising style. Blending her skills in between traditional art, photography, digital art, music and a short movies into the emotional, dark creations.
Mati Pirsztuk
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Argentinian experimental musician, composer and audiovisual artist. He incorporates different styles such as avant-garde, jazz, krautrock, field recording and Berlin school. Along with music, he works as a film director and painter.'
matter_as_form
matter_as_form is an admirer of frequency. She lives in Cape Town, works at a bookshop, and writes a bit.
Mawethu Mapotolo
umrhubhe poet.
Mawethu Mapotolo was born and raised in Cape Town and was exposed to visual and performance art at a very young age. He is fueled by the sound of the umrhubhe – the mouthbow he has played since first picking it up in the Eastern Cape in 1994. Mawethu passionately promotes this instrument to young people in townships and urban areas around Cape Town via events, workshops, conferences and festivals, sharing stages with legends of African music like Dizu Plaatjies, Pops Mohamed and Madosini.
MEIPR
Sweden
Meipr is a duo with Henrik Meierkord on cello and strings and Peter Josefsson on synthesizers.
Mila Cloud
Mila is the ghost of a housewife from Warsaw, Poland, who plays and records instrumental songs in the dronegaze / doomgaze /cloudgaze style. Mila likes smoking on the balcony, playing ghostly songs and watching short YouTube videos like "5 Terrifying Waves Caught on Tape" or "10 Biggest Waves Ever Recorded". She likes fuzzes, delays, phasers and other quirks. Sleepwalking.
Miles Otto
Miles Otto mixes experimental ideologies with tried and tested dance music languages using a variety of electronic hardwareinstruments. Described as 'Retrofuturist' by Electronic Sound Mag, Miles Looks ahead whilst paying respect for whats behind.
Millions Of Dead Tourists
Millions of Dead Tourists uses and abuses synths, pedal effects, 2 bass guitars, laptop, sequencer and 3 humans.
Mntana Wexhwele
Cape Town, South Africa
UMntana.WeXhwele, uNgaxabane Rhibela bhabha Nomhlelo, – Dlovu, Tlou ha e ke morwal - A listener of traditionally inherited dreamscapes, sonic vibrations and messages. A vessel and servant of indigenous energies, attained through afro-spiritual sonic meditations and chants. Through these sound vibrations he brings forth his penance for life”
Modulator ESP
Nottingham, UK
Modulator ESP is an adventurer in sound. He produces improvisedexperimental soundscapes, using synthesizers, sampling, sequencing, looping and processing to create strange worlds of sound somewhere between ambient, berlin school, drone, space music and noise. All albums are recorded live for Adventures In Sound or at other performances. Contact me if you want CDRs of any albums.
Monomort
Oslo, Norway
«Risk music» An improvising and exploratory musician. Experimental music with a strong focus on sonic extremities such heard in harsh noise music. With a background as a guitarist and later on a jazz academic, a liberating leap into the unfathomable noise music served as a welcoming outlet for a much more direct and raw artistic and personal contribution. From time to time in collaboration with other art forms, constantly composing, touring and producing music.
Morgan Wurde
Ethereal drama.
Setting the unfathomable wonder of the Dasein to emotive music, creating the "Morgen Wurde" form ofhaunting lyric soundscapes. The majestic and threatening ambivalence of the forces of nature, set to dark romantic fusions of ambient and neo-classical music.
MWVM
Ambient music intertwined with melodic electronics, slide guitar, textured drones, degraded soundscapes, blips, and lush ambience wash over deep analogue bass.
Neil O'Connor
Researcher and composer Neil O Connor (b.1979) has been involved in experimental, electronic & electro-acoustic music for the past two decades and has performed in Ireland, Europe, Australia, Asia and the US with projects such as Somadrone and more recently, Ordnance Survey.His work was been performed at MOMA New York, IRCAM Paris, Institute of Contemporary Art, London and has held residencies at the Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art and EMS Swedish Institute of Electro-Acoustic Music, Stockholm, Sweden and has worked / collaborated with members of the Crash Ensemble, RTE Symphony Orchestra, Phillip Glass Ensemble and the Glenn Branca Ensemble.
Nicolas Tourney
Nicolas Tourney sound works are made of visions, where acoustic phenomena and memory topography shape the listener’sperception of music & noise. His approach invites us to cross appearances, and draws the outlines of an idiom that questions the boundaries of the audible.
Nina Kardec
France
"Naître, mourir, renaître encore et progresser sans cesse, telle est la Loi". ("To be born, to die, to be reborn again and constantly progress, such is the Law".
Nina Kardec has been producing electronic music since 2005. You can listen to her works like you would watch a Kenneth Anger or Stanley's Kubrick's movie with their shades of darkness and lights.
ni/s
While TENbient takes its name from “ambient,” it goes beyond ambient music moving into territories of electronica, noise, drone and improvisation, to reflect the diversity of the contemporary underground music scene in Tokyo. The participants of this session are Cixa, Kentaro Nagata, Rhucle, Yama Yuki, yk (Hello 1103) and Yu Ogu . Without any prior consultation, the session flows naturally, ending up incorporating elements of ambient, electroacoustic music, noise, space rock, and various forms of improvised music.
NOW/HERE
on UNDERGROWTH RECORDINGS
Based in Nottingham UK, home made electronics and noise by Gerry Carnelly.
Nühn
Nühn was founded on July 31. Long career since 2001, first experimenting and working to get optimus level and without releasing much stuff, only in the hard drive for the first 8 years from the start. Today it has several references and features onto international media from many years at the controls. - Wanted to express mediadly audio experimentation the function of the frequencies that evolve the electronic music. This has mathematician aspects on the employ of sound.
observatories
Collaboration by Ian Hawgood and Craig Tattersall for their album, frost forms, on quiet details.
OdNu
OdNu is the musical alias of Michel Mazza. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently residing in Hudson, NY. Michel’s compositions are a constant experiment and interplay of instruments, different techniques, electronics and his moods and feelings.
Owrang
Tehran, Iran
Composer/ Classically-trained and experimental-electronic musician (Drone/ Ambient/ Noise music)/ mix-engineer/ label-manager from Iran.
Paolo Calabrese
paolo calabrese is an italian artist whose work mostly encompasses recordings, phonographies, and performances.
his main focus is on sound capacities: unconventional tunings, exploration of psychoacoustic properties, and perceptions phenomena.
Parallel Worlds
Downtempo/ambient/dark electronica artist group from Athens, specializing in vintage analogue modular synths, analogue sequences and dreamy soundscapes. Parallel Worlds are the main project of Bakis Sirros (with some ocassional collaborators). They were originaly born in 1994.
Influences have been the music of Autechre, Plaid, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Pete Namlook, Biosphere, Plone, Brian Eno, Seefeel and other experimental artists.
payta
UK
Experimental electronic music artist using a range of analog hardware.
POLIVOKS
Chicago, Illinois
Formant/Vocal synthesis and radiophonic workshop hell collide in a drone/industrial collaboration POLIVOKS featuring Death Tape Super Bass (US) and Less Than One (UK).
P.U.M.A
Milan, Italy
PUMA is an electro/noise Italian project by Luca Valisi (bassist and guitarist for the bands Mechanics For Dreamers, L'Océan, and Ludmila) in collaboration with Monica Calanni Rindina (a designer, writer, and event creator known as “Mamolifestyle”).
Quatrefoil
Quatrefoil is an ambient / experimental project from Croatia exploring the possibilities of manipulated field recordings combined with processed instruments.
RDKPL
Most, Czechia
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Noise * But Were Afraid to Download
Solo recordings by Czech noisemaker since 1994.
Red Alien
West London project since 1995.
Reverse Server
Reverse Server explores sounds of noise and feedbacks, with a strong focus on wave folding and FM modulation. Resulting arrhythmic and texture-heavy sound pieces were improvised and recorded at the Beirut Synth Center in Mar Mikhael, Beirut.
Robert Scott Thompson
The term musical alchemist best describes modern music composer Robert Scott Thompson. Combining his mastery of the electroacoustic, contemporary instrumental, and avant-garde genres into a swirling cohesive whole, he is an important pioneer on music's new frontier.
Ryo Utasato
Ryo aka Ryo Utasato is a Japanese composer and singer/songwriter with a rich body of work that runs the gamut from electronica to ambient to world to rock and beyond.
The expanse and tremendous scale of her music is capable of taking us from one part of the globe to another, just by closing our eyes.
Sandra Zanetti
Zanetti’s practice explores the impacts, duality, and dynamics of ever-present issues and their links to political ideologies and catastrophism.
Secret Nuclear
About Secret Nuclear
“A disturbing echo of cold war paranoia” - Electronic Sound Magazine
Secret Nuclear is the artist name of Surrey based musician Tim Spear. Secret Nuclear explores experimental electronic music and sound, from woozy minimalism, treated field recordings and loops through to all-out noise.
Sir Ravana
In a Word: Mystical
In a sense, electronic music is a vacuum - the entire damn genre started off as nothing more than a series of electrical inventions which gained popularity after composers applied them to their own cultures. New Delhi-based artist Ravana, named after the antagonist of Valmiki’s epic poem Ramayana, follows in these classics’ footsteps to re-imagine their music.
slow_the_tape
Stirling, UK
solo guitar project of scottish musician / songwriter andrew howie
on-the-fly sonic chronicles, combining expansive textures with drifting, fragile loops of distorted & delicate electric guitar
Slow Reels
Ian Hawgood and James Murray began Slow Reels in 2018 from studios in London and Warsaw.
Their music is typically sourced from vintage synths with reiterative digital manipulations and successive destructive passes through an end-of-life reel-to-reel tape setup resulting in a collection of entirely unrepeatable drone suites.
Their music has been released on Morr Music and Fluid Audio.
SMAMS
"Musical and visual artist from the UK who explores the sounds of IDM, experimental jazz, jungle and more with sampling as her greatest weapon"
Somerfeld
On Ryu Recordings.
Sommerfeld brings fine detailed structure to this EP, a constant high level of work to each track , giving it a seemingly dimensionless quality, an angular momentum, which harmonises the strength of electromagnetic force governing the shape of the EP with the interaction of spectral lines and experimental sounds. A diffraction, a propagation, of audio that makes up the standard model of these electrically charged tracks.
SONOLOGYST
SONOLOGYST is the solo project of Raffaele Pezzella. With a primary focus on the interplay between music and contemporarymythologies, Sonologyst's music traverses a spectrum between Fortean documentary-style soundscapes and the sculpting of post-industrial auditory experiences.
Spectral
Spectral (of Europe) is the sound project of Gavin W. Semple; Spectral can last up to 200% longer than the next leading band! Brings new shine to tired, lifeless air...
Spike Dott
Spike Dott is an experimental electrosonic voyager; blending hypnotic and ethereal sounds from a Lo-Fi palette of circuitry, the natural world and found objects, Spike Dott's music is a journey into dark, fuzzy worlds of magic found in the everyday.
STYLIANOS OU
S.Papagrigoriou is a writer, a visual and sound artist. His different skills and capacities are in constant conversation in his practice, as evidenced in his use of various media such as painting, sculpture, installations, literary text, sound &digital video. His work tackles issues revolving mainly around the theme of the human form, as well as the deformations which the latter may suffer.
Tape Noise
Lincoln, UK (Weird Garden)
Study of Anomaly; Over Consumption Dichotomy, Anti-Algorithm; ONeOFF, Data Feudal, Weird Garden.
The Tapes
The project "The Tapes" by Giancarlo Drago developed over a span of 10 years, between 1982 and 1992, before being revived in 2016 in Genoa, Italy.
TEMBER Ensemble
Tember is a Transcultural Electroacoustic Music Ensemble formed in Berlin by Alireza Ostovar (composer, producer & live-electronics performer) to create innovative music with new sound timbre and unique atmospheres using both traditional and contemporary (electroacoustic) music elements and techniques. Tember collaborates with international guest musicians.
Tetsuroh Konishi
Tetsuroh Konishi is one of the leading Japanese trumpet player/composer/improviser.
He has composed music for danceperformances in Canada, USA, Korea, as well as in Japan. These compositions won him very high critic reviews in the media. He has composed music for NHK TV and Radio programs and more recently had some of his music on the latest Mika Kaurismäki movie. He is based in Tokyo.
Thanato Twist with Oleg's Sound System
Musique Synthétique & Erroriste / Improvisations (France)
Thanato Twist with Oleg's Sound System is the meeting between Kortane Cortex aka Thanatomitsu V.02 & Ayato aka Thanatogushi ID.
Thierry Arnal
Thierry Arnal (musician/visual artist) is a french based composer (Lyon, France) active since 2006 and principally working with field recordings, sound collage and computers
This is what I hear when you talk
(On Thirty Five Records)
emotionoise.
if mental illness had a soundtrack.
created as part of my grieving process. not sure it's working.
Thollem
Thollem is a perpetually traveling pianist, keyboardist, composer, improviser, singer-songwriter, activist, author and teacher, he's spent most of his life living on the road throughout North America and Europe. His work is ever-changing, evolving and responding to the times and his experiences, both as a soloist and in collaboration with hundreds of artists across idioms and disciplines. Thollem's known internationally as an acoustic piano player in the free jazz and post-classical worlds, as the lead vocalist for the Italian agit-punk band Tsigoti and as an electronic keyboardist through a multitude of projects.
Thrill Behind The Barks
Minneapolis, Minnesota
TBB is Jason Herrboldt (jasonherrboldt.bandcamp.com), Divider Line (dividerline.bandcamp.com), and The Creeping Man (thecreepingman.bandcamp.com). Influences include Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Andrew Liles, Nurse With Wound, The the, The Art of Noise, Yello, Yaz, Gary Numan, Suicide, Bessie Jones, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, and Godheadsilo.
Totakeke
Ronkonkoma, New York. USA
NY-based producer that has managed to capture the attention of electronic music audiophiles and critics alike with his first release for Tympanik Audio titled ‘eLekatota - The Other Side Of The Tracks‘ in early 2008. When he’s not putting out noisy breakcore-tingled industrial under his main project Synth-etik (Hands Productions), Frank focuses on the deeper elements of electronic sound structure with his prolific project Totakeke.
TUKAHDUS
(TKHDS )
TUKAHDUS is a Finland based sound experimentalist who is breaking the boundaries between the dark ambient, electronic and metal music.
Victoria S Lwebangila
Born in Kiev, grown in Dar es Salaam, based in Cape Town, and native to nowhere in particular. A holder of MMus in Music Technology.
As a timid explorer of the meandering path and things that don’t make sense, I’m attracted by things that go boom in the night and constantly engaged in blowing bubbles of sound that occasionally hurt people’s heads.
Violeta Vicci
A multifaceted, contemporary violinist, vocalist and composer, Violeta Vicci feels comfortable genre-crossing from classical to ambient, multilayered electronics, her influences ranging from Bach to Brian Eno. Her music has received international radio play including iconic stations such as BBC Radio3, On the Wire BBC Lancashire, BBCRadio4, BBC6, KEXP, Resonance FM, Grenzwellen, Rai Italia, Radio1 Cz and dublab amongst others.
Wataru Iwata
Wataru IWATA is a transdisciplinary artist known for his work in Music, AudioVisual art, Digital Arts, Film, and Performance with anthropological insights.
William Henry Meung
New Zealand
Dunedin based, experimental outsider musician, composer, producer and visual artist.
wilt
wilt is what was and what may be. A rotating cast of the unhinged, anchored by one man of specific vision but no real destination. Journey through sound is the goal. New vibrations and aural stimulus are the vehicles we will ride.
wilt is based in Portland, Oregon. Currently working with broken bottle productions. All contact can be made through their organization. broken.bottle.productions@gmail.com
With Skulls Drawn On It!
With Skulls drawn On It! is the project of Ive,
With Skulls drawn On It! is the project of Ive,
sound experiencer from Belgium.
Drone, ambient and minimalist noise meet experimental electronics.
Wound
Wound, a stage name of Bartosz Szturgiewicz, has been on the outskirts of the ambient game since 2009. Hailing from Poland, split three ways between his home in the east, his heart in the south, and his life in the north, he is always searching for new modes of expression. Self-taught and retaining little, every project he starts is a new journey.
XauriX XubatniX
XauriX XubatniX is an artist of Italian descent who spends way too much time trying to use sound to capture the hearts and minds of beings on planet Earth.
Zajwert
Warsaw, Poland
ZAJWERT – composer, musician and music producer. Creator of electronic and electro-acoustic music inspired by IDM, postclub culture, minimal music and "clicks and cuts" aesthetics. Mixing avant-garde and progressive popular music.
zaké
zakè is an American ambient composer and sound artist. Recognized as a pioneer of slow-evolving minimal drone, he utilizes archaic synths, sound manipulation, and tape machines to create solemn, drifting soundscapes for deep listening. Founder of Past Inside the Present, one of the leading labels focusing on ambient in all its forms, and many sub-labels and connected imprints, zakè has built up an incredible community of artists and fans alike - a world of positivity and forward-thinking music loved across the board.
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Project of Robert Skrzynski and friends.
All money from the sale will help to cover shelter and food for those affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
One World. One Love.