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.
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…
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…