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)
Laura Molina
La Plata - Argentina
Experimental electronic and sound artist
She specializes in technological arts and holds a postgraduate degree in Applied Electronics for Art from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA). She has also studied aesthetics, curatorship, and the installation of technological artworks at Espacio Fundación Telefónica and CCEBA. .
She collaborates with artists from various disciplines, creating electronic objects and installations. Her work focuses on sound art and experimental composition, alongside her studies in cello. Her pieces have been exhibited in Argentina, Spain, and Finland.
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.
Pablo Bas
Pablo Bas, (Bs.As., Argentina, 1966). Musician, composer, sound artist, sound designer and teacher.
Pablo Bas composes electroacoustic, instrumental and mixed music and performs in concerts as a soloist and in free improvisation ensembles with electronics and real time sound processing. He makes music for audiovisual, theatre, dance and performance.
Bas makes field recordings; develops and directs collective projects of web sound maps with the Taller de grabaciones de campo y mapa sonoro, makes sound montages and sound installations. He co-directs Ciclo Onírica, a listening meeting and the Río de la Escucha Artistic Residency. His works are presented in festivals, concerts and exhibition halls in several countries. He is the author of the book Audio Digital (2005).
As a teacher, Pablo Bas develops his activity in his private studio. He directs the Diploma in Audio and Music Production and the Expert Diploma in Sound Art at UTN.BA. He has worked at UNICEN, UNTreF, UP, Biblioteca Argentina para Ciegos, Image Campus among others.
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).
Polypores
Polypores (aka Stephen James Buckley) paints music with a modular synthesizer, drawing influence from ambient, new age, and experimental electronics. It soars, bubbles, crackles, and soothes, in ever-shifting, immersive cosmic landscapes. Dream environments and sonic sculptures.
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.
rsn
rsn is the interdisciplinary art project by thomas rosen, born kempka. it is a sprawling project in the field of sound aesthetics, photography and the design of sound objects. the work is both self-sufficient and open to other areas of creative art. the focus is not on perfection, but on the moment, the process and the flow.
thomas rosen is a member of the art associations mülheimer kunstverein und kulturförderverein, arbeitskreis oberhausener künstler and kunstverein ruhr e.v. the music of rsn is released on international labels: adventurous music (germany), asonu (usa), attenuation circuit (germany), burial recordings (usa), difficult art and music (great britain), error prone records (usa), mima kass (sweden), not yet remembered (usa), oval harmonique (sweden), somnimage (usa).
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.
Sanctuary
Rick Hopkinson. Music making geek & lover of Ambient / Dark Ambient & Film Score music.
Sarah Huneidi/ xlmxkhfi
xlmxkhfi is the musical project of Beirut-based editor and audio visual artist, Sarah Huneidi. She began producing music during the 2020 lockdown. Her ambient, dream pop sound is produced through processing textures, vocals, and melodies on both hardware and software to create lush and layered soundscapes. Moving in the world of words, Sarah currently works as a freelance editor and is the co-founder of Barakunan, an experimental publisher and literature collective, where she combines her interests in various mediums.
Schwarzer Tag
Leipzig, Germany
Schwarzer Tag is dedicated to the dark side of art. Using English poetry from the last centuries, works full of loneliness, oppression and terrible foreboding are created. Eva's voice, from etheral whisper to painful distortion, unfolds over a solitude pulse of 808 basses. Sublime noise competes with weeping guitars, strange moaning synths all underlied with deep, dark drones.
Scientia
Perth, Australia
Exploring deep listening and sonic narratives that questionconsciousness and human impact through experimentation, collaboration and performance.
Combining modular synthesis and gongs to unravel the complexities of sound through improvisation to uncover ways to create sonic spaces for embodied listening.
As she dances in the interplay of sound, art, performance, meditation and consciousness.
S. Costa
S.Costa is an experimental synthesist and producer based in the South West of England.
After spending his formative years playing guitar, he turned to modular synthesis in 2020. His practice combines analog and digital synthesis techniques, juxtaposing sounds inspired by the natural world with otherworldly, playful (often strange) textures and tones to invoke themes of landscape, memory and love.
Scrapping Young Bucks
Burnaby, British Columbia
S.Y.B. is the first solo project for Daniel Loland. AKA K-Herring 1.
Seabuckthorn
'Seabuckthorn' is the solo work of Andy Cartwright.
Exploring various approaches on guitars, with fingerpicking, bowing and slides, often with layered accompaniments
Secret Nuclear
About Secret Nuclear
“A disturbing echo of cold war paranoia” - Electronic Sound Magazine
Secret Nuclear is the artist name of Surrey based musician Tim Spear. Secret Nuclear explores experimental electronic music and sound, from woozy minimalism, treated field recordings and loops through to all-out noise.
Shadow Echo Canyon
Bologna, Italy
dark soundscape.
isolation sounds.
rest in obscurity
nerves like snakes
Shaun Robert
Shaun Robert (1966 - ) has been working with sound from an early age , a natural extension of play. Starting like many with a domestic tape recorder ; years finger poised on the pause button ; tunnelling into the present & falling into deep concentration ; in a trance of coloured sound trials ; impromptu expressions processed & filtered into moments of congealed sound ; also using field recording , in voxpop & audio voyeurism , of hauntological stylings , spoken word & singing. Falling apart to come together ; feeling the next transition is about to happen , tape phasing sound on sound ; skimming back to make collusion edits ; building deep relationships with that aesthetic ; this interaction shows itself in within all his works . And the importance of sounds from analogue radio , magnetic tape manipulation can not be understated.
Sigillum S
SIGILLUM S, have been covering unknown territories among extreme electronics, fringe acoustics and occultist noise since1985.
The result has been an endless series of mutations, where, from the droning ritualism and ethnic explorations of the late ‘80s through the surreal science fiction soundtracks of the ‘90s, they have arrived at the super deep complexity of the new millennium.
SILENI
Enter the realm of SÍLENÍ, a project that explores intricate layers, disturbing rhythms, and atmospheric drones to create atransformative sonic journey. Delving into introspection and mystery, SÍLENÍ's music captures the enigmatic energy of melancholic beauty.
Sir Ravana
In a Word: Mystical
In a sense, electronic music is a vacuum - the entire damn genre started off as nothing more than a series of electrical inventions which gained popularity after composers applied them to their own cultures. New Delhi-based artist Ravana, named after the antagonist of Valmiki’s epic poem Ramayana, follows in these classics’ footsteps to re-imagine their music.
slow_the_tape
Stirling, UK
solo guitar project of scottish musician / songwriter andrew howie
on-the-fly sonic chronicles, combining expansive textures with drifting, fragile loops of distorted & delicate electric guitar
Slow Reels
Ian Hawgood and James Murray began Slow Reels in 2018 from studios in London and Warsaw.
Their music is typically sourced from vintage synths with reiterative digital manipulations and successive destructive passes through an end-of-life reel-to-reel tape setup resulting in a collection of entirely unrepeatable drone suites.
Their music has been released on Morr Music and Fluid Audio.
SMAMS
"Musical and visual artist from the UK who explores the sounds of IDM, experimental jazz, jungle and more with sampling as her greatest weapon"
Snowdrops
France
A project of Christine Ott and Mathieu Gabry - an alchemy of analogue and acoustic timbres in a style that is at times interior, intense, narrative or dreamy, and sometimes all at once.
SOKUSHINBUTSU PROJECT
SOKUSHINBUTSU PROJECT is an Italian esoteric ambient/post industrial duo, born in 2020 by Massimo Mascheroni (ODRZ) and Enrico Ponzoni.
The term 即身仏 [Sokushinbutsu] (lit. "Buddha in his own body") refers to a particular Buddhist ritual, practiced starting from the 12th century by some Japanese monks who, through a long and painful mental, physical and nutritional preparation, culminating in death, predisposed their bodies to a process of self-mummification.
Soloman Tump
England, UK
Dismal Electronics, drone and noise.
Chaos // entropy // lore // rhythm // industry // nature
Someone's Golden Teacher
Drone Day SGT.wav From Newcastle Upon Tyne UK, duo ‘Someone’s Golden Teacher’ is an unreliable, yet collaborative effort between Liam Hiatt and Nicola Bushell. Liam Hiatt enjoys making all types of electronic music, particularly ambient and drone techno. Nicola was borne from the clutches of an unmusical project… tripping over… making a cracking sound and just flowing upstream from there.
Somerfeld
On Ryu Recordings.
Sommerfeld brings fine detailed structure to this EP, a constant high level of work to each track , giving it a seemingly dimensionless quality, an angular momentum, which harmonises the strength of electromagnetic force governing the shape of the EP with the interaction of spectral lines and experimental sounds. A diffraction, a propagation, of audio that makes up the standard model of these electrically charged tracks.
SONOLOGYST
SONOLOGYST is the solo project of Raffaele Pezzella. With a primary focus on the interplay between music and contemporarymythologies, Sonologyst's music traverses a spectrum between Fortean documentary-style soundscapes and the sculpting of post-industrial auditory experiences.
Sound of Xee
Xolisa Tshomela is the founder of Globalize Yourself Stereo, an online music discovery platform that caters for live stream and on demand media. It works with contributors from Africa and around the world, therefore creating a diverse and eclectic music experience.
Sound_00/Lefterna
Skopje, North Macedonia
Sound_00 + Lefterna is an ongoing collaborative, conceptual, experimental, sound art project of the artists Toni Dimitrovand Boban Ristevski. 'Collabs' is their extensive serial of collaborative releases released on multiple experimental labels on various formats, varying in sound from deep drone contemplations to haunting, melancholic, ambient and noise explorations.
Spectral
Spectral (of Europe) is the sound project of Gavin W. Semple; Spectral can last up to 200% longer than the next leading band! Brings new shine to tired, lifeless air...
Spike Dott
Spike Dott is an experimental electrosonic voyager; blending hypnotic and ethereal sounds from a Lo-Fi palette of circuitry, the natural world and found objects, Spike Dott's music is a journey into dark, fuzzy worlds of magic found in the everyday.
Stefan Klaverdal
Ängelholm, Sweden
Swedish composer and sound artist working with acoustic and electronic music, performance and interactive sound art. His music is described as emotional, kaleidoscopic and beautiful.
Stormhat
Stormhat (Aconitum napellus) is one of the most poisonous plants growing in Europe. It’s growing especially in mountainous areas and is not uncommon.
‘Stormhat’ is also the moniker of the Danish artist and composer Peter Bach Nicolaisen who have been making dark New Age music since 2000. He enjoys his magic garden very much and chose to use the moniker ‘Stormhat’ for his musical project because of his interest in plants and their destructive powers.
Strage
STRAGE play dark instrumental atmospheric metal.
Slow and sludgy, heavy and loud, but there's also a lot of very soft, ambient parts.
Formed in April 2011 by Brandon van Eeden (ex Crossingpoint), Jono Harrison (ex Monkey Slutz) and Matt Bedford (Paige of State).
STYLIANOS OU
S.Papagrigoriou is a writer, a visual and sound artist. His different skills and capacities are in constant conversation in his practice, as evidenced in his use of various media such as painting, sculpture, installations, literary text, sound &digital video. His work tackles issues revolving mainly around the theme of the human form, as well as the deformations which the latter may suffer.
Substak
Kostas Staikos, known as Substak, is an Athens-based artist and music producer who began his journey in 2011. His passion for music provided an escape from everyday life, and since then, he has released his work through various labels. Substak’s artistic vision transcends conventional boundaries, focusing on the pure language of sound.His journey continues to evolve, driven by a commitment to creative freedom and expression.
Sven Phalanx
Frankfurt, Germany
Sven Phalanx is a musician from Frankfurt (Main), Germany, that is known in the business for over 20 years for his projects Schattenspiel (Neoclassical / Ambient), Schwarzwald (EBM / Industrial) and, since 2020, his collaboration project with Andreas Davids that has been reinventing the space-ambient-pop genre.
Since 2020 all further publications appear under his Alter ego Sven Phalanx
Tanti Aglaia
Tanti Aglaia
Constanța, Romania
Musical alias of Gili Mocanu aka SOMNOROASE PĂSĂRELE aka CENTRUL ISTERIC
Tape Noise
Lincoln, UK (Weird Garden)
Study of Anomaly; Over Consumption Dichotomy, Anti-Algorithm; ONeOFF, Data Feudal, Weird Garden.
The Tapes
The project "The Tapes" by Giancarlo Drago developed over a span of 10 years, between 1982 and 1992, before being revived in 2016 in Genoa, Italy.
TEMBER Ensemble
Tember is a Transcultural Electroacoustic Music Ensemble formed in Berlin by Alireza Ostovar (composer, producer & live-electronics performer) to create innovative music with new sound timbre and unique atmospheres using both traditional and contemporary (electroacoustic) music elements and techniques. Tember collaborates with international guest musicians.
Tetsuroh Konishi
Tetsuroh Konishi is one of the leading Japanese trumpet player/composer/improviser.
He has composed music for danceperformances in Canada, USA, Korea, as well as in Japan. These compositions won him very high critic reviews in the media. He has composed music for NHK TV and Radio programs and more recently had some of his music on the latest Mika Kaurismäki movie. He is based in Tokyo.
Thanato Twist with Oleg's Sound System
Musique Synthétique & Erroriste / Improvisations (France)
Thanato Twist with Oleg's Sound System is the meeting between Kortane Cortex aka Thanatomitsu V.02 & Ayato aka Thanatogushi ID.
The Great Old Ones
The music of The Great Old Ones is so profoundly lo-fi and shrouded in dense fog that each melodic line feels submerged, as if suspended in a gelatinous substance—trapped within an alien shell, unable to fully emerge or resonate in the ears of the listener, eternally encased in otherworldly isolation.
Thierry Arnal
Thierry Arnal (musician/visual artist) is a french based composer (Lyon, France) active since 2006 and principally working with field recordings, sound collage and computers
This is what I hear when you talk
(On Thirty Five Records)
emotionoise.
if mental illness had a soundtrack.
created as part of my grieving process. not sure it's working.
Thollem
Thollem is a perpetually traveling pianist, keyboardist, composer, improviser, singer-songwriter, activist, author and teacher, he's spent most of his life living on the road throughout North America and Europe. His work is ever-changing, evolving and responding to the times and his experiences, both as a soloist and in collaboration with hundreds of artists across idioms and disciplines. Thollem's known internationally as an acoustic piano player in the free jazz and post-classical worlds, as the lead vocalist for the Italian agit-punk band Tsigoti and as an electronic keyboardist through a multitude of projects.
Thomas Grenzebach
Zürich, Switzerland
Ambient Drone and Noise artist based in Zurich.
The music ranges from intricately composed minimalistic ambient sounds leaning into contemporary classical to heavily distorted drone.
Thomas Poken
Thomas Poken is an experimental sound artist who uses live input feedback and electronic manipulation techniques to create abstract works of textural noise.
Thrill Behind The Barks
Minneapolis, Minnesota
TBB is Jason Herrboldt (jasonherrboldt.bandcamp.com), Divider Line (dividerline.bandcamp.com), and The Creeping Man (thecreepingman.bandcamp.com). Influences include Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Andrew Liles, Nurse With Wound, The the, The Art of Noise, Yello, Yaz, Gary Numan, Suicide, Bessie Jones, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, and Godheadsilo.
Tomoyoshi Date
Japan.
Medical doctor and musician, born in Sao Paulo in 1977, lived in Brazil until the age of 3, returned to Japan and grew up in Narita, Japan.
8 years old, he started to study the deconstruction of rhythm and melody by playing the piano with only white or black keys using a baseball.
20 years old, he began composing music that would later be called ambient music, combining the Brazilian warmth of live instruments and electronic devices with the wabi-sabi of Japan, through jazz and post-rock, although he was not aware of being an ambient musician.
Totakeke
Ronkonkoma, New York. USA
NY-based producer that has managed to capture the attention of electronic music audiophiles and critics alike with his first release for Tympanik Audio titled ‘eLekatota - The Other Side Of The Tracks‘ in early 2008. When he’s not putting out noisy breakcore-tingled industrial under his main project Synth-etik (Hands Productions), Frank focuses on the deeper elements of electronic sound structure with his prolific project Totakeke.
TraumaTerrestrial / Ultraterrestrial
Gent, Belgium
Audio Visual Transhumanism
TUKAHDUS
(TKHDS )
TUKAHDUS is a Finland based sound experimentalist who is breaking the boundaries between the dark ambient, electronic and metal music.
Tulpa Twin
Tulpa Twin is a musician from Austin, Texas with releases on many labels, such as arrhythNia, Not Yet Remembered, Abyssal Productions, Move Quiet and Anticipating Nowhere.
Ultra
Ultra /'ʌltrə/ is a solo music band project initiated in 2019 in a period of mourning. It produces gloomy electronic music with an inevitable urge to hit the dance floor. The style is deeply rooted in Power Noise (Rhythm 'n' Noise). Ultra is a synthesis of artistic concepts, which isn't limited to the boundaries of music. Noises evolve to connect different art forms.
Under Konstruktion
Under Konstruktion aka Felix.
Under Konstruktion started as a mixture of Electronica, Techno and Industrial with the idea of blurring those lines and never have a clear definition. The idea of Under Konstruktion is to be an evolving sound, never dictated by trends or genres.
Under Konstruktion has played in Antagony London, Rosa Decidua London, B L A N C London, Drone Berlin, Behind Bars London.
VAAG
Haarlem, Netherlands
Vaag (dutch) means: unclear, vague, no frames, no boundaries....no direction.
Vacuum Within
Vacuum Within is a Dark Ambient Music Channel, focusing on dark atmospheric and industrial noise.
Vernusky
Mike Vernusky creates electronic music & sound art that
disintegrates boundaries of technology, space, and culture.
He is also an avid field recordist, recording deep in the
Amazon rainforest to the snake charmers of Marrakech;
from the bushveld of South Africa to the beautiful
cacophony that is India.
Victoria S Lwebangila
Born in Kiev, grown in Dar es Salaam, based in Cape Town, and native to nowhere in particular. A holder of MMus in Music Technology.
As a timid explorer of the meandering path and things that don’t make sense, I’m attracted by things that go boom in the night and constantly engaged in blowing bubbles of sound that occasionally hurt people’s heads.
Violeta Vicci
A multifaceted, contemporary violinist, vocalist and composer, Violeta Vicci feels comfortable genre-crossing from classical to ambient, multilayered electronics, her influences ranging from Bach to Brian Eno. Her music has received international radio play including iconic stations such as BBC Radio3, On the Wire BBC Lancashire, BBCRadio4, BBC6, KEXP, Resonance FM, Grenzwellen, Rai Italia, Radio1 Cz and dublab amongst others.
Wataru Iwata
Wataru IWATA is a transdisciplinary artist known for his work in Music, AudioVisual art, Digital Arts, Film, and Performance with anthropological insights.
Whettman Chelmets
Tulsa, Oklahoma
ambient drone shoegazey composed. Confrontational, uplifting, and silly.
Wil Bolton
Manchester, UK
Wil Bolton's work uses guitars, acoustic instruments, analogue and modular synthesizers and effects to create warm and emotive melodies, fragmented and submerged among beds of droning ambient textures and environmental sounds.
William Henry Meung
New Zealand
Dunedin based, experimental outsider musician, composer, producer and visual artist.
wilt
wilt is what was and what may be. A rotating cast of the unhinged, anchored by one man of specific vision but no real destination. Journey through sound is the goal. New vibrations and aural stimulus are the vehicles we will ride.
wilt is based in Portland, Oregon. Currently working with broken bottle productions. All contact can be made through their organization. broken.bottle.productions@gmail.com
With Skulls Drawn On It!
With Skulls drawn On It! is the project of Ive,
With Skulls drawn On It! is the project of Ive,
sound experiencer from Belgium.
Drone, ambient and minimalist noise meet experimental electronics.
Wojtek Kiwer
Kraków, Poland
I create music, sound installations, sound walks, workshops for children and adults, I am the author of music for theater performances, audiobooks, exhibitions, animations, animated films, I am interested in field recordings. Currently, I am focusing on playing concerts using a modular synthesizer.
Wound
Wound, a stage name of Bartosz Szturgiewicz, has been on the outskirts of the ambient game since 2009. Hailing from Poland, split three ways between his home in the east, his heart in the south, and his life in the north, he is always searching for new modes of expression. Self-taught and retaining little, every project he starts is a new journey.
Wukir Suryadi/Volcanic Winds
Wukir Suryadi brings theatrical ruckus to the classical stage, plucking, strumming and bowing his way from peacefulmeditations to rhythmical frenzies. The evolution of his music is never complete as he utilizes the agility of his instrument to collaborate with musicians and performance artists from around the world, fluently bridging musical styles and inventing new instruments as he goes.
XauriX XubatniX
XauriX XubatniX is an artist of Italian descent who spends way too much time trying to use sound to capture the hearts and minds of beings on planet Earth.
Yara Asmar
Yara Asmar is a musician and puppeteer currently living in Beirut with her two cats, Mushroom and Fejlé.
Yousef Kawar
New York, New York
Yousef Kawar is an internationally renowned artist, known for his multifaceted talents as a Musician, Videographer, andAudiovisual Artist. His exceptional talent has caught the attention of esteemed international music producers and artists, leading to his inclusion in record label releases. Yousef has had the privilege of working with renowned Electronic and Rock stars.
Zajwert
Warsaw, Poland
ZAJWERT – composer, musician and music producer. Creator of electronic and electro-acoustic music inspired by IDM, postclub culture, minimal music and "clicks and cuts" aesthetics. Mixing avant-garde and progressive popular music.
zaké
zakè is an American ambient composer and sound artist. Recognized as a pioneer of slow-evolving minimal drone, he utilizes archaic synths, sound manipulation, and tape machines to create solemn, drifting soundscapes for deep listening. Founder of Past Inside the Present, one of the leading labels focusing on ambient in all its forms, and many sub-labels and connected imprints, zakè has built up an incredible community of artists and fans alike - a world of positivity and forward-thinking music loved across the board.
Zayaan Khan
Zayaan Khan is a storyteller who uses various mediums to share stories of struggle and solutions, particularly within the spaces, nuances, and relationships of land, food, and seed. Her work advances sociopolitical, ecological, and spiritual perspectives. Zayaan operates from a space of care, healing, and intuitive practice, embracing a generative and emergent process as part of her transdisciplinary artistic approach. Through curiosity, research, experimentation, and engagement, her work explores the in-between spaces that shape our collective heritage.
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Project of Robert Skrzynski and friends.
All money from the sale will help to cover shelter and food for those affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
One World. One Love.
500 Goats
Madrid, Spain
Madrid-based duo of Andalusian sound artists Juan Cepas and José Mª Pérez-Flor, with over 30 years of experience in experimental music. They launched this project during the COVID pandemic, improvising and recording each other. Their chaotic yet evolving compositions mix electronic sounds, syncopated guitars, noise, field recordings, and lo-fi elements, embodying a playful, spontaneous approach.
