Thomas Köner
Thomas Koner (or, better, Koener) is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. He's been noted for his use of low frequencies. As a solo artist, he pens drone-based ambient music that follows Brian Eno's Discreet Music commandments. Nunatak Gongamour and Teimo focus on soft, slow-decaying gong drones (Andenes). Permafrost is his most austere work and perhaps his masterpiece.
Thomas Koner (or, better, Koener) is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. He's been noted for his use of low frequencies. As a solo artist, he pens drone-based ambient music that follows Brian Eno's Discreet Music commandments. Nunatak Gongamour and Teimo focus on soft, slow-decaying gong drones (Andenes). Permafrost is his most austere work and perhaps his masterpiece.
Pneuma Monoxyd
Hardcover Book + CD, published by Dortmunder Kunstverein Und Hartware MedienKunstVerein - Thomas Köner's Pneuma Monoxyd uncovers fluctuations and invisible border crossings that constitute any moment. A static gaze of a Balkan market unveils the porous boundaries of the present moment and seems like a window looking out to the beyond.Premonition, memory and splinters of Here and Now become perceptible as part of the fabric of the observed moment.
Daikan
'The Earth is burning, covering all environments in ashes. Smoke comes to us from computers-from social networks accelerating the spread of burnt affects, damaging our ability to feel and respond to what the planet strives to express. We need to cool down. Thomas Köner's music can help change the pace of our perceptions: 1) In Daikan (2002) - a Japanese term meaning "the coldest" or "the coldest part of the year"-the ear stretches until touching the depth of time that persists in the ice; a soni…
Nuuk
** 2021 Reissue ** Thomas Köner is one of the most influential modernist minimal composers. Alongside Wolfgang Voigt’s “Gas” project, Köner has been centrally responsible for electronic music’s fascination with depth and reduction. His signature sound is vast, seemingly endless, which at first seems homogenous and infinite, but once exposed to it, when our senses calibrate to the fine nuances of changes, we discover and immerse into abundance of textures, richness of modulations and almost infin…
Aubrite
Thomas Köner is one of the most influential modernist minimal composers. His music is often defined as dark ambient or drone, because of the use of low frequencies, material from gongs,shadowy resonances and boreal ambience, but at the same time its sound with constant fluctuation and vulnerability of sonic events, what makes it organic, human and almost comforting. Köners soundscapes are no longer simply dark, the question now is that of a profound blackness. Such is the generic darkness of the…
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**Released in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies** A compilation of live recordings specially released for a Die Stadt label night feat. Released in conjunction with a live performance on the 29. April 2012 on the MS Stubnitz in Bremen.
Initial copies were given away for free to ticket holders on the night of the concert.
Track listing:
1. Ditterich Von Euler-Donnersperg - Die Schnarrmaus Des Kleinen Fritz 5:372. Asmus Tietchens - L10RA 11:033. Thomas Köner - Le Bateau Ivre 3:48
Motus
Limited 2 LP edition. Isolationist pioneer Thomas Köner goes all the way in for his spiritual home of Mille Plateaux with a masterful new album of dynamic, grippingly minimalist sound designs "Motus is more (to me) than just music made with analogue synthesizers, it is about attitude, a way of relating to sound and the (e)motion it affects. A lifestyle, where movement, being moved and moving become one. My practice is vibrational, about the skin, touch and surfaces and the gaseous medium in bet…
Cloitre
Issued on compact disc for the first time. Originally released digitally in 2014. Thomas Köner and Jana Winderen, recorded live from the cloisters at Evreux Cathedral, Normandy, France by Franck Dubois on June 14th, 2014, as part of L'Ateliers. With thanks to Denis Boyer. Limited edition CD in card sleeve; Remastered by Thomas Köner; Photography by Jon Wozencroft."Cloître, [Winderen's] live collaboration with Thomas Köner from earlier this year effortlessly forges a fiction by bringing together …
Tiento de las Luz
The completely singular drone and ambient pioneer Thomas Köner is back on Denovali. Köner’s Tiento de la Luz is a unique release for the artist as it subtly blends classical instrumentation and live electronics in homage to a 15th century musical form. This deep and graceful drone album comes on heavyweight vinyl in a variety of colours and includes a download code and extra thick sleeve.
Thomas Köner's first encounter with this musical genre goes back to a commission from Frankfurter Gesel…
The Futurist Manifesto
A colossal audivisual adaption of Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto, by Thomas Koner, one of the uncontested master isolationists of the ethereal static sounds, a sonic symphony of the unconsciouss and a defiant decceleration critique of today society through the ultimate modern text. The Futurist Manifesto is the ultimate 4 bpm masterpiece.100 years ago, in 1909, the italian poet and artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the ‘Futurist Manifesto’ which became the foundation of the futurist mov…
Tiento de las Nieves
Shipping on Monday "Love is life’s snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight—whiter and purer than snow itself. What is life without love? It is like this ice—a cold, bare, rugged mass, the wind driving it and rending it and then forcing it together again, nothing to cover over the open rifts, nothing to break the violence of the collisions, nothing to round away the sharp corners of the broken floes—nothing, nothing but ba…
Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya (lit. "New Land"), also known in Dutch as "Nova Zembla" and in Norwegian as "Gåselandet" (lit. the "Goose Land"), is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia and the extreme northeast of Europe, the easternmost point of Europe, lying at Cape Flissingsky on the northern island. The artwork, by Jon Wozencroft, includes an essay by Thierry Charollais, "Thomas Köner's Novaya Zemlya: towards a metaphysical geography"... Of course we find the unique Köneresque glow…
Nunatak / Teimo / Permafrost
Restocked: Very Special triple CD edition featuring Thomas Köner's seminal first three albums newly mastered by the artist himself and housed in a gorgeous triple panel Digiifile package. The three albums have been long unavailable on CD and were originally released between 1992 and 1993 and are considered classics of the Dark Ambient/Drone genre* Following on from three limited vinyl editions, Type now proudly presents a triple CD package including the first three, long unavailable and ne…
Permafrost
Vinyl release. Permafrost was originally issued in 1993 and marked the conclusion of Thomas Köner's epic and influential trilogy which included Nunatak (TYPE 069LP) and Teimo (TYPE 070LP). Darker and even more subdued and minimal than its predecessors, Permafrost was the album which saw Köner truly strip the sound back to the bare essentials; gone were the hints of harmony found in Teimo and the discernable gong sounds of Nunatak. All that remained were the deep, shadowy resonances, room…
Teimo
The gorgeous second album from dark ambient pioneer Thomas Köner. Originally released in 1992 and never previously available on vinyl, Teimo is probably the most "tuneful" of Köner's legendary triptych (Nunatak, Teimo and Permafrost). The submerged drones that became his signature are tempered slightly on this album, to give a hallowed, mournful edge which has been echoed on so much of today's darker ambient music. Indeed, at times throughout this cavernous album, there are hints at someth…
Nunatak
The Type label reissues German music producer Thomas Köner's debut album, the first in a set of three, on vinyl for the very first time. Originally introduced to the world in 1990, Nunatak (then named Nunatak Gongamur) was shockingly ahead of its time, and it is hard to believe that it has been out of print and difficult to obtain for so long. Köner created the album with mood in mind; he has since been described as a "media" artist, and it's easy to see why. While the music can be descri…
La Barca
Very Special double vinyl edition of Thomas Koner's 'La Barca' album - featuring a whole extra side/over 20 minutes of exclusive material never before available on any format, cut at Berlin's Dubplates and Mastering and pressed up in an edition of just 500 copies for the world. If you're a follower of Drone/Dark Ambient, and have admired the work of anyone from Deathprod to Rhythm & Sound to BJ Nilsen to Chris Watson to Angelo Badalamenti - this will blow your mind* There are few artists …