Michel Banabila

Michel Banabila is a Dutch composer and sound artist, born in Amsterdam in 1961 and based in Rotterdam. Active since the early 1980s, he makes ambient, minimal and drone music built on found sound and sampled, manipulated voices. He has written extensively for film, documentary, theatre, dance and installations, and much of his catalogue appears on his own Tapu label. Michel Banabila and trumpeter Eric Vloeimans won a 2003 Edison award for VoizNoiz 3.