'Ideas had on sofas at loud parties, executed in quieter rooms.'

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 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 

From dark ambient to robot electro - Sounds of the paleofuture

a low effort quality brand

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. 

Norway

Alex is a composer, sound designer and field recordist residing in the traditional territories of the scəw̓ aθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawassen) and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) first nations. 

Antwerp, Belgium

Ah Cama-Sotz (°1993). An industrial-techno and dark ambient project by Belgian electronic music producer / DJ Herman Klapholz.

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.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lic. en Música
composer, guitar player, producer

Berlin, Germany

composer and instrumentalist

Exeter, UK

Electroacoustic noise art interventions.

A project of Nic Shulze and Yankees Suck.

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. 

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.

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.  

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. 

Nashville, USA

24/7 Ambient Transmissions

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.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

bradley sean alexander deschamps, curator of polar seas

Córdoba, Spain

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.  

Aragorn23 / Asqus is an experimental musician based in South Africa. His current work focuses on algorithmic and gestural composition as well as modular synthesis.

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. 

Germany

Del Mar, California

Musician, film composer, recording artist, record label owner.

New York, New York

bassist/improviser/writer playing at and with the intersections of sound and symbol.

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.

Engineering on the astral plane. Reality you cannot rely upon since 1992.

Huntington, West Virginia

₳ §ƚɾαɳɠҽ ᗐιʂιƚσɾ M̶ყ R̳ҽαρҽɾ-- VCR shinigami. "I'm here for you"

Hamburg, Germany

I am from Ukraine.
Currently in Hamburg, Germany.

Madrid, Spain

Autodetuned is a solo project of Juan Cepas, also a member of 500 Goats
500goats.bandcamp.com

True to its name, Autodetuned focuses more on tones than on tunes..

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 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 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.

Berlin, Germany

Chaos Reigns.

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.

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. 

Los Angeles, California

Bendu is a habitual daydreamer.

Anglo-Canadian duo, working under several aliases since 1982.

Taunton, UK

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.

E London leftfield electronic producer and sound artist. Releases on Castles In Space / Werra Foxma / Lost Map / Byrd Out / Front and Follow / TDO / Wormhole World.

Also guitarist in cosmic pop group Firestations.(Lost Map).

A collaboration between BMH (Black Magic Holiday) and Disorganism. Vargo Rogers, Otto Binder and The Mother swirling their magicks together in the cauldron.

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.

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

Dark ambient. Drone. Ritual. Narrative. Concept. Cinematic.

Lahti, Finland

Black Magic Holiday.  Music project of Kate Bosworth (of Dark Train fame) & Matt.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Exploring sound-based creative expression in high desert of Northern New Mexico.

///ELECTRODOOM DUO

//DRONE; DARKNESS; DRUMS; DIRT; DISTORTION; DEATH; DUB; DEPRESSION; DISSONANCE; DISABILITY: 

D(((O)))(((O)))M.

UK

Bremnar is the minimal drone project of Alison Greenwood.

Patterson, New York

South African born, New York-based electronic music composer & performer.

I am of the opinion that the void can be terribly wearing at times.

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.

Brobient side-project. I also record under CHROM-47 (formerly 'Man') and am the lead singer of The Hot Food Department.

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 - sonic occultism from the Italian  industrial/esoteric underground.

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'. 

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.

Nottingham, UK

... de-evolved sound since 2004

New Jersey

The patterns merely mutate.

Johannesburg, South Africa

Chantelle Gray uses modular synthesizers, the Korg MS-20, the piano and gestural composition to create soundscapes. 

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 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.

Bielefeld, Germany

Electronic guitarist. Most of the sounds you hear are processed guitars.

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. 

China

Composer/vocalist/electronics improviser.

Beirut, Lebanon

Catching feelings and building upon

UK

Experimental machine music from Luke Phillips.

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.  

Dublin, Ireland

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.

UK

Conducive is a sound artist, noise enthusiast & texture-based ambient musician.

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.

Solo Improv Dark Ambient Guitar Soundscape Dronez with occasional contributions, the sound of the impending apocalypse and fridge buzz

Las Zarquillas, Mexico

what constitutes your musical universe

On Weird Garden

Lincoln, UK

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 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.  

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.

From nowhere. For nothing.

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 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: Discord And Relative Depressions In Sound.

Ambient and experimental sound project for Northern Irish writer, editor and sound artist Colin Dardis.

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.  

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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. 

Hungary

Eclectic musician and composer. combination of contemporary and experimental music. It goes along with a
more opened, multi-layered musical path. Its main element is the mixture of electroacoustics and
other different genres. Storytelling using sounds. 

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.  

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. 

Vancouver, British Columbia

Death Drive is the solo project of Athens-based producer Kostas Karamitas.

Alabama, USA

Experimental EDM, Electronic, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Power Noise, Darkwave, Electro-Industrial, IDM-inspired artist located in Alabama. Creating with ProTools, Ableton Live 10, and with Dreams on PS4.