Artist Profiles L - Z
Lark Wool
After his Incidental Music period from the 80ties, Jack Ison started a new project in 2012: Lark Wool.
Lärmschutz
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Free-improvised brass and string noise-punk from Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Lärmschutz is: Stef Brans: guitar, stuff on strings; Rutger van Driel: trombone, electronics, bass
Lars Bröndum
Stockholm, Sweden
Lars Bröndum is a composer, performer of live-electronics and guitarist. His music has been performed in for example Sweden, Japan, Russia, Scotland, Lithuania, Latvia, England, USA, Spain and Mexico. Lars performs live using an analog modular system, a Theremin, effect pedals.
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
Learn (Cara Stacey & Keenan Ahrends)
Cara Stacey is a South African musician, composer and musicologist. She is a pianist and plays southern African musical bows (umrhubhe, uhadi, makhoyane). She holds a doctorate in African music, specifically looking at composition and innovation in the music of the makhoyane musical bow from eSwatini (University of Cape Town/SOAS).
Keenan Ahrends is a jazz guitarist and composer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ahrends is known for his evocative musical writing, his emotive improvisation and his sensitive musicianship.
He remains an important part of the emerging southern African jazz arena and his flagship sound can be heard on numerous albums and in a diverse plethora of projects.
Letlhohonolo Ntsewa
South African interdisciplinary artist, with a focus in sound art and painting.
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.
Linear North
Augusta, GA
'a long gestating slow-build affair that sounds as if it was ripped from the soundtrack of a dystopian sci-fi epic. If any sort of synth-heavy, doom-laden, futuristic end-times vibe is your bag, I fully recommend checking him out.' - Means Magazine
Lord Ursus
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
the guitarist joe bonamassa warned you about
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.
Luca Ferro
Experimental Electronic music composer, sound designer and vector illustrator based in Milano (Italy).
Also Vocalist and keyboard (and electronic gears) player in Satori Junk Band.
Lucas Werenkraut / TRoneitor
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tenor, drummer, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, co-founder of Duo TRoneitor with Natalia Cappa. In 2018 I finished building the TRoneitor, a modular synthesizer built entirely from electronic waste collected from the streets of Buenos Aires. All music included in my artist page is either entirely composed with TRoneitor, or else TRoneitor is the main instrument in the piece
Luiz Ser Eu
A big part of being alive for me is discovering and seeing the unheard sounds. Finding and hearing the emotions that still have no name. Music for me and painting are the same. And its truly alive. I am following its path. And it is following mine.
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.
Marc Codsi
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.
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.
Marsupial Alliance
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.
Massimo Olla
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.
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.
Maud Zeinoun
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.
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.
Maxim Starcke
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.
Megalithic Transport Network / Martyn Stonehouse
UK
Digital Artist & Composer for visual media.
Meghan Judge
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.
MEIPR
Sweden
Meipr is a duo with Henrik Meierkord on cello and strings and Peter Josefsson on synthesizers.
Michael Grunditz
Michael Grunditz is a Swedish composer producing contemporary classic and ambient/experimental minimalism.
Michael Trommer
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.
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.
Miss Canine Hoe
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.
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.
Mombi Yuleman
Raleigh, North Carolina
Producer of Dark Ambient, Horror Soundtracks and Psytrance (Dark, Dark Progressive, & Twilight)
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.
Moreine
"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."
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.
MTCH
A collection of sounds that create textural ambiences and off kilter beats.
Mutant Beatniks
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.
MWVM
Ambient music intertwined with melodic electronics, slide guitar, textured drones, degraded soundscapes, blips, and lush ambience wash over deep analogue bass.
NAGANO Masataka
Born on January 17, 1986. Devoted to improvised expression. Makes sounds that occur naturally in the environment. Since 2011, has been holding the independent event “kessetsuten!" Performs with many artists, mainly in sessions. Released the album "ten wo Utsu" from ShaktiMusic in 2014. Since 2017, has been organizing the concert series ‘Momente’. Based at the art space environment 0g and bar Hows. Mainly plays the guitar, but also uses various sound sources, including non-musical instruments and effectors. Recently, he has been inspired by the sound of tuning forks and actively uses them in his performances. In 2024, he moved his base from Kobe to Okayama. He aspires to an alternative lifestyle based on natural farming and other methods.
Aiming for harmony with the birds and dogs that started with 144, and the flock that lives with them. Released a new sound source “wave reform”.
Naledi Chai
I am an interdisciplinary artist working in filmmaking, collage, design, and sculpture. My work uses DIY styles to create and speak to my identity as a "displaced" artist. I explores object displacement and space as well as the repurposing of "discarded" materials, objects, ideas, approaches and methods that uphold both the intricate aesthetic histories of Sub-Saharan African art practices while exploring and uncovering the functional capabilities of these objects in design, science and technology within our local socio-political contexts.
Nardus Niemand
Nardus Niemand is a South African artist and musician from the Suburbs of Cape Town. His musical roots run deep, where both his grandfathers were very capable musicians.
From the rock era of the 90’s through the trance era of the early 2000’s to his current exploration of Ambient/Noise/Drone and beyond, Nardus has always experimented with genre bending soundscapes.
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.
Nerthus
Thuringia, Germany
nerthus is audio and visual dark ambient since the beginning of the new millenium!
all music, photographs and artwork by nerthus ...
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.
No Syntax
No Syntax is the stage name of Jan-Daniël de Villiers. Typically a solo acoustic singer/songwriter, who's music ranges from progressive rock to spoken word, he likes to challenge himself. Reworking an instrumental he often uses as a set opener titled "Present" for Sensa's Drone Day is exactly the type of challenge he enjoys to broaden his sense and style of music.
Nour Sokhon
Nour Sokhon is a Lebanese artist, sound designer and filmmaker based in Beirut, Lebanon. Her creative explorations have been in the form of sound performances, installations and moving images. In 2014, she achieved an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from The American University in Dubai. In 2017, during her time at the Glasgow School of Art in the United Kingdom, she culminated a large scale Masters project; a documentary entitled “People on Sound”. In 2019, she received the Emerging Artist Prize at the Sursock Museum, for a moving image piece entitled "Revisiting: Hold Your Breath”.
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.
Oort
Oort is a duo based in Italy, formed by the improvisers and sound artists Michele Anelli e Nicholas Remondino.
Their research is focused on the, apparent, contrast between acoustic and electronic sound with a marked sense of composition in the improvisation. The fascination for the animal souls and behavior rapresenting an important guiding light for their aestethics.
Oubys
Hasselt, Belgium
Oubys is the brain network alternator from Belgium, producing sounds that physically affect your synapses. His music, merging synth sequences with rhythmical patterns, explores the melody of the subconsciousness.
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.
Paolo L Bandera
Milan, Italy
INORGANIC REALISM.... Language Noise & Apocalypse Tools from P.NG5361.BANDERA of SIGILLUM S, SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS and many other acoustic oddities.
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.
Pestzone
pestzone [UK] Intense + apocalyptic dark drone ambient soundscapes by Graham of <1 Projects
Phoan/ phoanøgramma
Phoan is the solo project of Angelo Panebianco, sound designer & experimental electronic music composer based in Milan (Italy).
I also collaborate with Macrogramma under the alias Phoanøgramma.
Pierre Henri Wicomb
Pierre-Henri Wicomb is a South African composer residing in Cape Town. He completed a Masters degree in composition at University of Cape Town and Post Graduate studies at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, The Netherlands, where he completed his course as one of the top students of his year. Ensembles and soloists Wicomb has worked with include the Asko ensemble, Ensemble Reconsil, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, L’Instant Donne, Ums n Jip, Potage du Jour/InterZones, DissonArt, Ensemble Insomnia, X[iksa], Duo Axelsson Nilsson, Soren Hermansson and the Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic Festival to name a few.
Plamen Večnosti
Serbia
The entity
of the Otherness.
Dark Transmitter.
Cracking
the wall of Today.
Black Medium.
The Reflection of
the None.
Silence and Dread.
Plant43
Plant43 (Emile Facey). Tresor resident. All booking enquiries: mike@berytus.artPlease contact emile@plant43.comfor anything else including remixes.
poborsk
Poborsk lives in Marseille and has been making music under this moniker since 1999. His music mixes shades of classic "IDM" with synthetic computer funk, depth charge bass drops, steel plated beats and concrete sound manipulation.
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).
progettosonoro
Cagliari, Italy
progettosonoro is Marco Mascia, serial (and parallel) musical instruments and sonic objects accumulator and (not)musician
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.
R4
R4 is Barry D. Scheffel, an experimental artist from southwest Ohio. He operates somewhere in between the ambient and noise spaces on the periphery of music.
Ran Slavin
Tel Aviv Yafo, Israel
Video artist, visual designer, electronic musician and film maker, Ran Slavin’s interdisciplinary work shape shifts at the intersection of electronic media, film, video installation, electronic underground music, writing, graphic design. His work with digital technologies explores his own evolving identity in relation to visual cultures, digital realities and fiction.
rauðvik
York, Pennsylvania
rauðvik is a project born out of a fascination for astronomy, electronic music, deep ambient soundscapes, and classical musical training.
The idea behind most work is to build a musical framework on a given synthesizer, and then let heavy randomization steer the ship, leading to tracks that will never be identical from one performance to the next.
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.
Rhea Dally
Rhea Dally is an improvising noise artist and instrument maker, with a focus on hacking and a commitment to the DIY principles.
Righard Kapp
Righard Kapp has dwelled on the outskirts of the South African music scene for several years now: from his own ambient and noise experiments to his involvement with the ‘On the Edge of Wrong’ festival of improvised music to his sporadic tenure with literary oddballs The Buckfever Underground, not to mention his label’s activities of releasing albums by decidedly individualistic artists and his involvement in the recent reissue of the 80’s South African art-punk band KOOS, it is clear that the idiosyncratic guitarist values a critical and aesthetic discourse that is well removed from the mainstream.
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.
Russell's Teapot
Leeds, UK
A journey into prog psychedelic sounds featuring, Experimental cosmic jams,
Free improvisation.
Harsh noises,
found sounds,
ambient,
Drone, Distortion and Doom!
Minimalist
Kosmische slice
Lysergic jazz bespoke beats producing
Soundtracks field recordings and musical landscapes.
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.