'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

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. 

Berlin, Germany

composer and instrumentalist

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Taunton, UK

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

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.

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

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

Los Angeles, California

Bendu is a habitual daydreamer.

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'. 

Nottingham, UK

... de-evolved sound since 2004

Johannesburg, South Africa

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

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.

UK

Experimental machine music from Luke Phillips.

Dublin, Ireland

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.

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. 

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.

Paris, France

Seattle, Washington

Looking for the right ways to make the wrong sounds.

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. 

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

Derby, UK

dov is a one man soothing psychedelic freak out solo musician/artist from the midlands u.k

Music, film, performance.

www.disorganism.com

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, 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.

A rare example of gamekeeper turned poacher...a welter of impressive electronica" - Electronic Sound Magazine

Ambient experiments written in the dark; short story soundtracks to disturb and delight.

Don Haugen is a visual and sound artist based in Eugene, Oregon, USA.

Kingsville, Texas

Down Chamber is a dark ambient, dungeon synth, and classical music project lead by Michael Verderber.
Signed to Dungeon Squid Productions.

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.

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 

Carlos Pompeu, aka Druida and other names too

Quatro Barras, Brazil

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. 

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).

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. 



Vancouver, British Columbia

Eli Wallis is a poet from Kamloops.

Hong Kong

Denmark, Australia

Dark Ambient Industrial Noise Artist.

Envelope Muse: Dystopian sound for a dystopian world.

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.

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.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Everyday Dust is an electronic musician based in Scotland, who uses synthesizers, tape machines and transformed sounds to create his unique narrative-driven music.

came alone, will leave alone and all my lifetime I stayed alone (zen buddhist wisdom:))

Lancaster, UK

Atmospheric, sometimes dark, occasionally

bucolic soundscapes. "shimmering... unsettling" -The Wire

"The sound of big, strange worlds"-Electronic Sound magazine.

curating quiet details

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.

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.

Russia

Lazuli_Yellow, Goldeater, Imisu, INTERACTIVE CO, NOYU.SIR, Suri Sunriser.

A COLLECTION OF MUSICAL ALIASES PERSONIFIED INTO A VAST UNIVERSE. 27 PROJECTS EMBODIED BY 27 CHARACTERS CREATED FROM THE HIVE MIND PAUL G. MARCHESAN

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), 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.)