M. Rösner is a sound artist based in the south-west of Australia. Surrounded by open spaces yet within close reach of the city, an infusion of place and time is evident in all M. Rösner’s works.
Working with minimal organic fragments gathered from acoustic instruments and microphone recordings that are digitally processed, M. Rösner aims to create abstract compositions that are ... [More]
Malka first gained prominence as a founder member and bassist of Minimal Compact the Israeli/Dutch group based in Amsterdam and Brussels in the '80s. They released several recordings on Brussels based label Crammed Discs and toured extensively throughout ... [More]
~ They are French! Ooo la la!
~ Margo can count folks like Lali Puna, Schneider TM, and Piano Magic amongst their fans
Marshall Watson has been busy cultivating his sound for many years now - from the regular club nights he ran in New Orleans (from '96 - '98, which involved a mutant hybrid of keyboards, sequencers, and the then-innovative pioneer CDJs) to his dub techno project Polar Frequencies to now. Having settled in Seattle, where he has befriended local hip hop ... [More]
The Very Mash'ta project is an adventure that started as a 28 minutes track composed for a radio broadcast throughout Brussels 2000's opening day. A piece based mostly on sounds provided by Distorted Media's sound database [Brussels 2000 radio project].
Most of those sounds are anonymous field recordings or abstract soundscapes: voices, footsteps, conversations, laughter, supermarket atmospheres, drops of water banging ... [More]
Visionary, Forefather, Innovator...these are terms that get thrown around all to loosely in the world of electronic music, but for certain individuals, these descriptions apply without question. Jack Dangers, the veteran composer and sound sculptor behind Meat Beat Manifesto, is one of these individuals.
It is without superlative that one can say Dangers has helped define and inspire the sound of ... [More]
Meira Asher
Born in Tel Aviv, this composer and performer now lives in the Netherlands. Meira studied percussion, voice and inter-disciplinary arts in Varanasi - India, Jerusalem, Ghana and California Institute of the Arts where she graduated in 1990. She studied for her Masters degree at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague.
Her works Dissected (album and performance 1997-8) ... [More]
Microstoria is a collaboration between Markus Popp (Oval) and Jan St. Werner (Mouse On Mars).
Their common work souds like an electronic "soundtrack", destructuring the structures and recomposing, re-inventing new textures to create the perfect melody.
Their micro-stories are about new languages, new way of expressing the music itself, guiding it to unknown territories. Through echoing machines, Popp and St. Werner are ... [More]
Mika Vainio is one half of Pan Sonic - active as performer, solo or in short collaboration and also involved in installations and performances at museums and galleries. Pan Sonic are thought of as as one the most interesting electronic bands, alongside artists such as Autechre and Oval.
Christian Fennesz began as guitarist and became one of the most brilliant improvisers ... [More]
Meet Mileece. She's 24 years old, was born in London and now lives in Montreal. Right! That's the easy bit out of the way. The continuation of Mileece's extraordinary life, her debut album Formations, is undoubtedly the star-twinkliest, dewdrop-freshest album of the year.
Mileece grew up in a pioneering recording studio, Free Range, in Covent Garden (it was her bedroom for ... [More]
Mitchell Akiyama's career in the arts has followed a reasonably circuitous path. A student of creative writing and literature before switching to interdisciplinary studies, Akiyama's work as a composer of electronic music and video artist has come to incorporate disparate disciplines, aesthetics and theoretical traditions. He has been based in Montreal since 1998 and has thoroughly absorbed the currents of ... [More]
Morton Feldman was born in New York on January 12, 1926. In 1949 the most significant meeting up to that time took place - Feldman met John Cage, commencing an artistic association of crucial importance to music in America in the 1950s. Cage was instrumental in encouraging Feldman to have confidence in his instincts, which resulted in totally intuitive compositions. ... [More]
Hailing from Tijuana, Mexico, Fernando Corona's musical background runs the gamut from an acoustic rock to experimental multimedia. A phase of composing for dance ensembles led him to develop a taste for 20th century classical music, particularly the emotional music of eastern european composers like Henryk Gorecki and Arvo Pärt.
Corona was born in Tijuana in 1970 but lived most ... [More]