Artist Profiles A - K
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.
Adi Newton
Adi Newton has long since described the process of making music as his research , It represents a more thoughtful andreflective body of work than that which dominates his peer group. In particular, Newton’s grasp of the philosophical connotations of technology placed him apart from the majority of its practitioners.”NME COM
Founder/ClockDVA & TAG /The Anti Group Biog Photo Gabriel Edvy
AFTERVOLTER aka mortier/Irving Paul Pereira/ALTËRVOLTAR
Singapore
Irving Paul Pereira aka AFTERVOLTER‘s sound is a cryptographic puzzle that intimates the existence of all things etheric. Discomfiting, elusive and otherworldly. Paul’s invocations tune the synapses, static swarms abound, rewiring our brains to tap into subtler energies. Beyond the dust reveals subtle terraforming of a complex architecture.
Ah Cama-Sotz
Antwerp, Belgium
Ah Cama-Sotz (°1993). An industrial-techno and dark ambient project by Belgian electronic music producer / DJ Herman Klapholz.
AIS
Hong Kong
AIS is the monikor of a 10 year-old girl (now 11) who experimented ambient music and would like to release her ambient works via floppy and send it to her teachers and friends in her primary school graduation ceremony.
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.
André Uhl
Berlin, Germany
André Uhl merges noise and synthesizer lines and converging them into dark, driving and cinematic pieces of music. His productions combine detailed and spatial audio design with simple, yet haunting melodies. André holds a master’s degree in futures studies, a fact that reflects in his compositions and leaves traces in his sound: tales of the hazy past and the twilight of the future.
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.
Archaic
Archaic is the electronic music project of Jelle Groen and Pieter Hooghiem from Netherlands. Their paths serendipitously intersected at a vibrant local cultural concert hall, where classical music, eclectic melodies and live performances ignited their shared passion for music, technology, and diverse musical interests. Their shared workplace with Willem Twee Studios (Netherlands), made them interested into the world of modular synthesis and the collaborative efforts provided the perfect sonic adventure.
ASC
Del Mar, California
Musician, film composer, recording artist, record label owner.
Ashtoreth
Antwerp, Belgium
ASHTORETH is a project in a search of a shamanistic perspective, channeling at times minimal, meditative drones; and at others a catharsis of doom, noise and experimentation touching upon folk, post rock, psychedelica and more. Always in a free form.
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"
Au Vol
Ontario
au vol is jasmine landau in ottawa and alex pederson in thunder bay trading found sound, guitar noise and violin loops by mail and taking turns smashing them into jarring rhythms or sedated drones. combining elements of ambient, noise, and avantgarde classical music, au vol is continually evolving.
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.
Bacon Grease
Bacon Grease is the long-running solo project of Orlando's Andrea Knight, also one half of Greasy Bitches, and a veteran of Miami's International Noise Conference.
Bana Haffar
Bana Haffar is a synthesizer. She lovesresearching non-musical systems, sequencers of all kinds, and pocket microscopes.
She founded Modular on the Spot with Eric Cheslak in Los Angeles in 2014, and co-founded the Beirut Synthesizer Center in 2021.
bdou
Pronounced, 'do'.
BedouinDrone
Antwerp, Belgium
BedouinDrone, drawing inspiration from the conflicting moods of the Middle East. War, prayer and the pressured condition of Arabic culture are the central themes . Drawing attention to political subjects rarely touched upon by the Western electronic music canon. BedouinDrone utilizes techniques of ambient and noise to immerse listeners in the tense state of the current Islamic world.
Bill Seaman
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Seaman's artworks often investigate a media-oriented poetics through various technological means — Recombinant Poetics. Such works often explore the combination and recombination of media elements and processes in interactive and generative works of art. Seaman enfolds image/music/text relations in these works, often creating all of the media elements and articulating the operative media-processes involved. He is self-taught as a musician/composer. More recently Seaman has also been exploring the creation of a transdisciplinary search engine related to Neosentience— the future of AI andRobotics, called The Insight Engine. This work is a mixture of conceptual art and science — Recombinant Informatics.
BlackAnimisM
A collaboration between BMH (Black Magic Holiday) and Disorganism. Vargo Rogers, Otto Binder and The Mother swirling their magicks together in the cauldron.
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.
Brandon Auger
Brandon Auger (b.1978) is an artist, improviser and structural builder based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His minimalistic work promotes the amplification of sonic idiosyncrasies in both acoustic and synthetic environments.
Brendon Moeller
Patterson, New York
South African born, New York-based electronic music composer & performer.
BRMC
BRMC is an anonymous industrial music project by one of the key figures of the German industrial scene. Involved in many releases, collaborations, live events and parties for over three decades, BRMC is now releasing a selection of fourteen tracks, some of them previously unreleased. The album Your Guilty Conscience is full of traditional industrial songs with a critical attitude toward society. BRMC is an interdisciplinary art project involving sound, video art, actors and dancers in their live performances.
Bro Biden
Brobient side-project. I also record under CHROM-47 (formerly 'Man') and am the lead singer of The Hot Food Department.
Bruno Bernard
Chalon Sur Saône, France
Composer - Acousmatic sound artist. Student of Christine Groult, Camille Roy, Dan Lustgarten, Nicolas Vérin, he is particularly interested in sound environments, in the complementarity between image/sound/live spectacle, Bruno Bernard also campaigns for awareness of the importance of the phenomenon sound through active listening and the poetry that emerges.
Capricorni Pneumatici
Capricorni Pneumatici - sonic occultism from the Italian industrial/esoteric underground.
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'.
CCJ
Portland, Oregon. USA
CCJ is:
Colin Jones Synthesizer, Guitar and Effects.
CCJ's musical style is mostly Ambient, Krautrock, Soundscape or Chill-out music, but there are a few other styles mixed in, think music that plays during a movie's end credits, or during non-verbal scenes in movies.
Chantelle Gray
Johannesburg, South Africa
Chantelle Gray uses modular synthesizers, the Korg MS-20, the piano and gestural composition to create soundscapes.
Charbel Haber
Beirut, Lebanon
Charbel Haber is Lebanese musician, performer, visual artist and composer from Beirut. His work has seen him collaborate with artists from a wide range of disciplines - music, film, video art, visual art, theatre - both in Lebanon and abroad.
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.
Clinker / Gary James Joynes
Gary James Joynes is a Canadian sound and visual artist who performs at international music events internationally as Clinker. He blends the beauty and physicality of sounds auditory and visual elements live in performance and in rigorous and emotional photo and video installation works.
Colonial Skyway
Wisconsin, USA
Colonial Skyway. In brief, I generally attempt to convey a sense of loneliness and space. Something we as humans and nature both experience. My sound is more machine than melody as I also try to give voice to the forgotten machines or the ignored systems of mechanized domestic service.
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.
Cult Of Light
CULT OF LIGHT is a collaborative project by Davide Del Col and Ascanio Borga, inspired by ancient cults, folk horror tales and exploration expeditions, the music evokes long forgotten rituals and aims towards uncharted territories where mysterious ancestral forces are still alive and well.
Daarg
Frome, UK
Darrg comes from 1966 and is of Wiltshire extraction, though more recently he has turned to the dark side and sold out to Somerset.
Daniele Ciullini
Firenze, Italy
Sound alchemist since the early '80s. In those years made some self-produced musical works in the audiocassette + volume format and participated, with single pieces, in compilations on vinyl or cassette made from various labels and fanzines of the time.
The work of those years has been almost entirely reprinted by brands such as Ecstatic, 777 was 666, Spittle, Old Europa Café and individual songs have been included in compilations made by label such as Strut and Cherry Red.
After a pause of about thirty years esumed making sounds with a series of electronic works (dark ambient/industrial) distributed on the net by a dozen sites and netlabels.
From 2016 also started live set, radio show and blog. Last works for Luce sia, Silentes, Marguerite records, Fango radio, Unexplained sounds.
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 Lee Myers
David Lee Myers is producer/artist at Pulsewidth recordings. Since 1980 the sounds of feedback and electronic noise havebeen at the core of Pulsewidth. Sixty-plus albums have ranged from soothing ambient to grating cacophony and have been released by ReR, Starkland, Important, Silent, RRRecords, Generator, Cronica, Staalplaat, Line, Pogus, Korm Plastics, Monochrome Vision, and other labels.
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.
Deeper
Maurizio Faggion
Unconscious is often something disturbing right? Immerse yourself in this dark ambient music, you might be amazed at what might emerge from your mind. Electronic music is a perfect medium to let the imagination and sensations travel...so...
Deli Kuvveti
Seattle, Washington
Looking for the right ways to make the wrong sounds.
Denise Onen
Denise Onen’s existence as a multicultural African, queer individual is rooted in serving as a sonic cultural practitioner, with a demonstrated history of contribution to collaborative sonic works across a variety of performance mediums. Onen has been dedicated to projects that have raised awareness, empowered local communities, and held space for marginalised bodies. Onen has since been nominated for the 2022 International Oram Award for feminine-bodied sound, music, and associated technology innovators.
Die Fitz Frekwensie
Die Fitz Frekwensie is a project of sonic exploration by musician and student of philosophy Werner F. Smith. The project came into being as a result of his growing obsession with analog recording mediums, in particular, cassette tapes and the use of cassette machines as instruments by themselves. The project makes use of tapeloops, field recordings and fx pedals to create saturated landscapes with a disposition towards the nostalgic. Werner is interested in the various states of consciousness alteration facilitated by such sonic mediation and exploration.
Die Sonne Satans
Die Sonne Satans is the sound project raised by Paolo Beltrame and driven by the desire for self-determination.
digitalsakura
the sprouts of digitalsakura were planted on january 29, 2019, since then this beautiful tree, a symbol of life and death, transience and frailty of being, blooms and envelops the whole world with petals of experimental art.
we support the vital activity of sakura, doing research of this world through the prism of media art with a scientific and experimental approach.
Diogene
Toulouse, France
Diogene is an ambient electronic composer and producer from France. Mainly based on analogic devices, his music goes from dark ambient, through drone, to deep exploration of electronic ambient. These vibes are often harmonic combinations of stunning effects that can lead the listener to incredible trips in other sound and space dimensions
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.
Down Chamber
Kingsville, Texas
Down Chamber is a dark ambient, dungeon synth, and classical music project lead by Michael Verderber.
Signed to Dungeon Squid Productions.
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.
e. dulanovsky / Pulsewidth
regina, Saskatchewan
e. dulanowsky is Ernie Dulanowsky, an electronic sound composer, performer and erstwhile DJ using homemade and commercial non-keyboard electronics to create ambient drone and noise pieces. His work is informed by the sounds found at the intersection of office building ambience, electromagnetic emanations, and broken media transmissions.
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.
Elyse Tabet
Beirut, Lebanon
ELYSE TABET is a Lebanese audiovisual artist and electronic musician. She works with recorded and synthesized sound to create electro-acoustic landscapes and deconstructed rhythmics, drawing her inspiration from musique concrète, ambient, industrial electronica, dub and garage beats.
Envelope Muse
Denmark, Australia
Dark Ambient Industrial Noise Artist.
Envelope Muse: Dystopian sound for a dystopian world.
Epsilon-Delta
Studying Mathematics and Engineering in Universities, Hong Kong-based electronic musician Epsilon-Delta uses synth to represent Mathematics musically, forming a unique soundscape of “MathSynth” music.
Esa Ruoho/ Lackluster
Etelä-Suomi, Finland
Instrumental Electronic Music from the suburbs of Eastern Helsinki.
Alternately simplistic, melancholic, ambient / beatless to melodic and slightly less chilled.
Used to release on Merck Records and deFocus, now mostly unsigned - you're looking at my label right here on this page.
Notorious bridge-burner and procrastinator. Free Energy / Off-the-grid enthusiast. Interested in Pure Data.
Etyen
Beirut, Lebanon
Head to @thawrarecords for all releases in the last 5 years.
Etyen is a Beirut-based musician, music producer and Red Bull Music Academy Alumnus. Weaving together sounds from a plethora of sources while carving out his own characteristic elements, Etyen creates a unique sound universe that is at once global and rooted in his local scene.
eumourner
Remember the larvae that will eat us. Reject the world as a market
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.
Flugen
Lebanon
Athens/Beirut. Maya Aghniadis is a music producer and multi–instrumentalist raised in Beirut and based in Athens since 2021.
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.
Fog Baptism
Fog Baptism is a one-woman project conducted by Sylvia Joyce out of Sacramento, California. She approaches the project as a diary, splashing each release with different moods and soundscapes; a reflection of her headspace as the days slouch onwards. Her works span across different genres such as black metal, electronic, industrial, noise, ambient, and doom metal. When she isn't writing, Sylvia enjoys spending her time reading, and staying at home with her wife and two cats.
Fragile X / Leit Motif
Drifting in the audio void.
Somewhere between the chaos and the calm.
Owner of the Bricolage label and Gorecki Productions.
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.
fr(HK)
fr(HK), a.k.a. Field Recording Hong Kong 香港聲景, is a cultural side project by anonymous artist(s) in Hong Kong trying to capture sound via field recording in their home town for future generation, before the sound vanish permanently.
(Work to be found on the 433 Records.)