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Peter Knight

Perpetually curious, composer/trumpeter Peter Knight’s practice thrives in the spaces between genres, categories, and cultures. His recent solo work extends the possibilities of his instrument with innovative approaches that interweave acoustic preparations, extended techniques with electroacoustic processing via laptop, vintage delays, tape machines, amplifiers, and pedals. Peter is interested in the use of repetition, rhythmic […]

øjeRum

øjeRum is Copenhagen-based collage artist and music maker Paw Grabowski. With a deep back-catalogue of releases – spanning labels such as Room40, IIKKI, Line, Quiet Details, Opal Tapes and many more – he continues exploring his minimal, textural and deeply personal style of ambient music.

MM Works

MM Works’are Mathias Lystbæk and Mads Lassen. The duo creates instrumental, cinematic music in a cross-genre exploring jazz, classical and post rock elements. Compositionally the Copenhagen-based duo roams in a delicate balance of structure and freeplay, avant-garde and modern composition. Relying primarily on acoustic instrumentation, the group consists of Mads Lassen on drums and Mathias […]

Ezekiel Honig

Ezekiel Honig’s work rides the tender line between abstraction and concrete immediacy. His emotively warm electronic-acoustic music uses a multitude of everyday real-world objects and spaces, tethering to our physical universe while eschewing any concerns of figurative reality. Plastic, metal, wood, and air coalesce with Rhodes, guitar, horns, piano, and other instrumental origins, creating a […]

Zimoun

Zimoun is best known for his installative, generally site-specific, immersive works. He employs mechanical principles of rotation and oscillation to put materials into motion and thus produce sounds. For this he principally uses simple materials from everyday life and industrial usage, such as cardboard, DC motors, cables, welding wire, wooden spars or ventilators. For his […]

Akhira Sano

Based in Tokyo and focusing on the imperfections and irregularities of form and sound, Sano creates, observes, records, and extends them through drawing, graphics, installation, videography, and music composition. His major works include Penetrating, For Filtration (Important Records, 2019), Particle Dialogue – Observation and Recording (The Trilogy Tapes, 2022), Shadow’s Praise (IIKKI, 2023), and major […]

Between

Between is a rotating collective of artists that began in 2012 one night at old ryokan in Kyoto, Japan. It is collaboration that brings artists, stories and memories together acutely distilling the essence of 12k’s mission and aesthetics into one project. Participants so far have included Taylor Deupree, Simon Scott, Marcus Fischer, Corey Fuller, Tomoyoshi […]

Asuna

Asuna is a Japanese sound artist who has recently been reevaluated in the experimental music and art scene in recent years. Creating experimental music and installation work from a very young age during the late 90’s, he has gone on to become a pioneer within the experimental ambient / drone / improvisation scene in Tokyo, […]

Arovane

Born in the mid-60s, German musician and sound designer Uwe Zahn came on the scene of electronic music with his debut full-length album for DIN, titled Atol Scrap. In the very same year of 2000, the influential City Centre Offices label has signed Arovane for his majestic Tides, which has withstood the test of time […]

Monogoto

Monogoto are Ian Hawgood, Porya Hatami, and David Newman.

Christopher Bissonnette

Christopher Bissonnette is a Canadian musician/sound artist/graphic designer living and working in Windsor/Detroit. He has released four full-length albums for the independent record label Kranky, a release through Russian label Dronarivm, and a collaborative recording with David Wenngren (Library Tapes) on Home Normal. Bissonnette has actively explored visual art, sound and video in a variety […]

This Valley Of Old Mountains

This Valley Of Old Mountains is Federico Durand and Taylor Deupree.