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.

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.  

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

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. 

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.

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

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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ꇙ꒐ꋊꉔꏂ 2007

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.

Netherlands

[moosdohmen] is a Dutch producer of live analog beats and modular sounds. He combines dub, drone, and lo-fi ambient elements to create his own blend. He performs with a 7U modular setup, Torso T1/S4, guitar FX pedals, and Elektron Syntakt and Pulsar 23 analog drum machines.

"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

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

Meppel, Netherlands

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.  

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.

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”.

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 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.

East Montpelier, Vermont

Sound Artist, Field Recordist, Bassist Living in Central Vermont.

"Dentico shares a part of himself that is honest and dark and difficult to love. In turn, the listener agrees to share in this moment of discomfort to gain further understanding of his or her honesty and humanity."
- Seven Days

France

Project of Pascal Bertier

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. 

Thuringia, Germany

nerthus is audio and visual dark ambient since the beginning of the new millenium!

all music, photographs and artwork by nerthus ...

polyphren.de

Los Angeles, California

Ambient and Electronic Noise

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.

Italy

Charting the void of existence through dark electronics and death industrial.

Nikos Sotirelis is a Greek architect, curator and composer of electroacoustic music.

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.

Pitões Das Junias, Portugal

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. 

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Texarkana, Texas, USA

Bleep bloop

Joshua N. Grové,  Perth, WA

Russia

Nicolas A.

Geneva, Switzerland & Thailand

South Africa

...spawned from a crack in the ceiling...

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 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”.

on UNDERGROWTH RECORDINGS

Based in Nottingham UK, home made electronics and noise by Gerry Carnelly.

Japan

NRV is the drone/ambient project by Sendai-based musician Nerve (antennasia/JaiMachine). The impetus behind NRV lies in a soft simplicity — inspired by everyday life and places, giving rise to emotional spaces. The project started in the lockdown summer of 2020, where he was able to take his time trying out various approaches and sonic experiments, ultimately forging his sonic identity. 

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. 

Tehran, Iran

Nyctalllz or Noctvrnal Noizes is a Noise/ Experimental/ Electro Acoustic Music Project Formed in 2007 by Morego Dimmer (aka Xerxes The Dark, Morego, Blind Owl, Nahan, Ostanes).

Yusaku Iida is a Japanese electronic music producer and DJ.

He works under the artist name NYORAI.

Mainly createselectronica, IDM, experimental music, ambient soundscapes and sound design.