Machinefabriek is the alias of Rutger Zuydervelt, based in Schiedam, the Netherlands. His music combines elements of ambient, noise, minimalism, drone, field recordings and electro-acoustic experiments. The music can be heard as an attempt to create sonic environments for the listener to dwell in. It can be minimalistic at first glance, but reveals its depth upon closer listening.

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Melbourne, Australia

Filipina sound artist living in the UK

Wirral, UK

Experimental electroacoustic project beginning in 2009.

Barcelona, Spain

Avantgarde artist, music producer, and DJ.

Belgrade, Serbia

Born in Belgrade 1979. Violinist, sound artist, curator and researcher mostly active in the field of electro-acoustics, instrumental improvisation & experimental sound related arts. Graduated at the Belgrade Music Academy, then gained PGDip at the Royal College of Music, London.

Cape Paterson, Australia

Experimental sound recordist. Electroacoustic enthusiast. Abstract compositions, field recording, synths and tape loops.

Lisbon, Portugal

"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.

England, UK

Ian Hubball - Musician and photographer from Cheshire nurturing noise from acoustics, analogue electronics, tape and field recordings into compositions of all shapes and sizes with a catch-all, carefree approach.

Beirut, Lebanon

Marc Codsi is a Lebanese composer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. He was a member of emblematic Lebanese rock band Scrambled Eggs for many years, before focusing his attention on electronic rock duo Lumi and his own solo activities. He currently pursues his career as a musician and performer in solo and with Lumi, and Zalfa, and works as a record producer and film composer.  

Szczytno, Poland

Marcin Lasek, born in 1988 in Szczytno (Poland), is a Polish experimental musician and improviser who has been recording since 2004. He is the founder of the band Fading Tapes.

Lisbon, Portugal

Emerging in the 1990s from Lisbon’s underground, developed a language for double bass built on restraint, tension, and expressive use of tone and silence.

Collabs include Manuel Mota, Marcia Bassett, Thurston Moore, Loren Connors, Mattin, Björn Schmelzer, et al. Her music is charged, exploring what remains when the familiar structures of music are bent and twisted upon themselves.  

Milan, Italy

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 (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.

 Marsupial Alliance offers a collective approach to genre-defying sound art, with prime organizer Scott Bazar joined by anyone who wants to join in on the fun. 

Bourges, France

Noise & Live, what else ?

// Drone
// Harsh Noise
// Rhythmic Noise

Beirut, Lebanon

Okinawa, Japan

Extreme
Ambient
Noise
Drone
Occult

Massimo Olla was born in Cagliari, Italy, in 1964. 

Despite being into unusal and leftfield sounds and music since his youth, only in 2010 he started experimenting with self built instruments.

His research in instrument building led him to create the [d]Ronin Custom Shop, named after his signature instrument, the [d]Ronin, an acoustic-electric array of strings, springs and metal plates that soon became appreciated and used by experimental musicians worldwide, including the likes of FM Einheit and Eraldo Bernocchi.

Warsaw, Poland

Multi-genre sound artist from Poland.

Berlin, Germany

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 is an admirer of frequency. She lives in Cape Town, works at a bookshop, and writes a bit.

Devon, UK

Electronic music artist.

Maud Zeinoun was born in Rabieh, Lebanon in 1988. She is a young filmmaker and is focusing on building a career as a sound designer and music composer for films. She graduated from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik in 2011 and obtained a Bachelor degree in Audiovisual, Cinema and Television. For the past 4 years, Maud has been managing an Art house Pub/restaurant called “De Prague” located in Hamra, central Beirut, where she organizes daily film screenings based on a certain theme or film genre, for the entire month. She has been a regular Deejay at “De Prague” as well.

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. 

Max Devereaux is a radical multidisciplinary artist, composer, and filmmaker working across graphic scoring, electroacoustic improvisation, abstract expressionism, and site-specific installation. As a disabled artist, his practice uses minimalist frameworks to interrogate political violence, historical trauma, and environmental tension. His sonic and visual work examines the friction between presence and annihilation, bridging mid-century avant-garde electroacoustic traditions with tactile action painting rooted in Zen philosophies of nothingness and chaos.

Maxim Starcke is a composer of contemporary classical-, electroacoustic- and soundscape-based music as well as a multi-instrumentalist performer and educator. He completed a Masters in Composition with distinction (portfolio and dissertation entitled 'Aspects of Landscape Music: selected music by Ingram Marshall and Eivind Aarset') at the South African College of Music, UCT in 2012. Prior to this he completed a Bachelors in Music degree with distinction in Ethnomusicology in 2004. Starcke, as a multi-instrumentalist, performs on classical & electric guitar, soprano & alto saxophone, 6-string electric bass, laptop and electronics - these in different combinations depending on the project or ensemble.

Greensboro, North Carolina. USA

Multi-instrumentalist and ambient producer, M. Cross Dougherty’s music is the kind you would expect to hear in your dreams; it's serene and hopeful, calmingly anthemic, and engagingly present.

UK

Digital Artist & Composer for visual media.

Meghan Judge is an artist and curator working into tensions of movement and rest. Through a constantly reconfiguring body politic she locates temporal ruptures, sinkholes and disturbances that hiss a plurality of presence and ask questions about perception and orientation.

Sweden

Meipr is a duo with Henrik Meierkord on cello and strings and Peter Josefsson on synthesizers.

Taiwan

Paul Timings music. From the debut recording of folk music in 2003, to experimental synthesis in the 2020's. For art exhibition info/dates, images/vids, press/media, and more sound stuff, please go to ratslayingbabiesinyourears.xyz

melophobia (μελωφοβία) is an experimental project by Dimitris Tsironis (Δημήτρης Τσιρώνης), started in Greece in2001.

A sonic diary of electroacoustic / improv / sound art / avant garde / musique concrète / acousmatic / ambient / drone music.

All sounds crafted and assembled into a unique microcosm.

Dimitris Tsironis also operates 1tracktape & Default Standard Records. 

Louisiana

ambient bleeps // natural sounds // smeared in reverb// chaotically controlled

Germany

Rennes, France

A project of Florian Jamelot.

Musician based in Edinburgh & Amsterdam.

Michael Grunditz is a Swedish composer producing contemporary classic and ambient/experimental minimalism.

Michael Trommer is a Toronto based producer and sound artist; his experimental work has been focussed primarily on psychogeographical explorations via the use of field recordings. He has released material on an unusually diverse roster of labels, both under his own name as well as 'sans soleil'. These include Transmat, Wave, Ultra-red, and/OAR, Audiobulb, Audio Gourmet, Gruenrekorder, Impulsive Habitat, Stasisfield, Serein, Flaming Pines, 3leaves and con-v.

Michele Anelli is active as improviser and composer his research is focused to the sound with extended techniques, field recordings, concrete music, noise, free impro and free jazz.

He is active with several projects as his solo performance (both acoustic and electronics), the collaboration with Nicholas Remondino with which he have the duo Oort, the trio Vòrti with the soprano player Michel Doneda, the duo with violinist Sabrina De Nicolò and many others.

Bordeaux, France

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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 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 uses and abuses synths, pedal effects, 2 bass guitars, laptop, sequencer and 3 humans.

Dublin, Ireland

A project of Dunk Murphy.

Perth, Australia

mindflower is the solo project of Tokyo based experimental artist Gen Yamada, who began performing in Perth in 2023.
In 2024, Mindflower released his debut EP "flotsam" which reflects Gen's music experiences with in Perth.

Osaka, Japan

Mytyl Sheena started making music in 2017.
She started Miss Canine Hoe with Elly Sheena in 2021.

After encountering noise, ambient and experimental music, and beginning to use modular synthesizers and Ableton Live, Mytyl's interest shifted to the resonance and layering of the sounds themselves.
Elly always supports Mytyl both physically and mentally, while writing lyrics and promoting.

Greece

melophobia vs. Substak

aka The Mnemonic Minotaurs

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” 

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Modelbau is Frans de Waard. Started out in 2012, operating small electronics, shortwave radio, iPad synths, Walkman and whatever else. 

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. 

Raleigh, North Carolina

Producer of Dark Ambient, Horror Soundtracks and Psytrance (Dark, Dark Progressive, & Twilight)

Poznań, Poland

Multimedia artiste, music producer & composer, vocalist, radio & film sound designer, field recordist.

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.

Utrecht, Netherlands

Producer from the Netherlands, doing live modular dubs and drones.
Since 2023 he has played many live modular sets at ADE, Paradiso, OT301, WORM, Doka and Modulation events, and in Berlin and Cologne. He also made a mix for Concertzender, and did live streams for the Colorado and New York Modular Synth Societies and Modular World, plus podcasts for Ambient Vault and Data Cult Audio. 

"Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the donkeys, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous moreine."

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. 

Morin Heights Doom Quintet are artists of different bands from all over the world. 

England, UK

Experimental ambient music created as mosaics of field recordings, found objects, electro-acoustic and electronic sounds.

Bel Air, Maryland

Mostafa Kölz is an intimate place filled with sounds that do not belong to Metttani: degraded textures, unfinished gestures, unstable sketches, therapeutic noise, damaged fragments that were not made to function.

A collection of sounds that create textural ambiences and off kilter beats.

Meppel, Netherlands

Monza, Italy

Estonia

patrick tubin mcginley (aka murmer) is a sound, performance, and radio artist based in estonia. his work is about smalldiscoveries and concentrated attention; it focuses on the unnoticed but extraordinary sounds that surround us. he works with spaces, objects, resonances and people in composition, performance or simply collective action, in the exploration of perception via attentive listening.  

Fareham, UK

Bath, UK

The Mutant Beatniks was started with the idea to produce short form pieces of Music Concrete, Noise Music with an edge towards outsider pop and breakbeat. Mutant Beatniks started in 1986 with a ever changing line up, . Since there have been many times of inactivity, while other side projects, and lots of recordings have been lost down the years. 

UK

Lo-fi sound of small towns

Ambient music intertwined with melodic electronics, slide guitar, textured drones, degraded soundscapes, blips, and lush ambience wash over deep analogue bass.

Germany

m00m is a band project by electronic music artists, Christian Fiesel and Jack Hertz. Inspired by their love for synthesizers and Krautrock music.