Thomas Köner

Mostly of the music artists with ties towards the unrelated but somewhat connected areas of modern avant-garde, techno, and indie rock and roll, Thomas Köner offers released albums of sparse atmosphere for the Dutch Barooni label, recorded similarly skeletal and lo-fi techno (with Andy Mellwig) seeing that Porter Ricks, and appeared on albums by Costs Laswell’s Divination aswell seeing that Sonic Boom’s Ear canal collective. A indigenous of Germany, Köner started documenting with 1990’s Nunatak Gongamur, the initial in some LPs for Barooni. The record was created completely using gongs as its supply materials. The haunting, amazingly bass-heavy Teimo implemented in 1991, as well as the record helped create Köner’s name in the ambient music globe. The aptly entitled Permafrost implemented in 1993, to even more acclaim. The sparser Aubrite made an appearance on a single label in 1995. In 1996, Köner made an appearance on Distill, an record by Costs Laswell’s ambient-dub task Divination, which known as a move of experimentalist composers including Paul Schütze, Pete Namlook, Anton Fier, Haroumi Hosono, Mick Harris, and Tetsu Inoue. Also financing his name — actually — for an Hearing (Experimental Audio Study) recording entitled The Köner Test, he produced the task with tempo and development help from Andy Mellwig. Mellwig and Köner experienced already recorded many EPs of shadowed techno as Porter Ricks (afterwards collected over the 1996 String Response quasi-compilation Biokinetics). In 1997, Porter Ricks’ self-titled second record made an appearance on Mille Plateaux, as well as the label released Teimo and Permafrost being a twice Compact disc. Köner also added a disc known as Nuuk to Driftworks, a four-CD ambient container established released by Big Kitty. The Köner single effort Kaamos implemented on Mille Plateaux in 1998. Porter Ricks’ divide record with Techno Pet appeared on Drive Inc. in 1999. Köner started dealing with German avant-garde label Die Stadt through the early 2000s. He produced a project known as Kontakt Der Jünglinge with Asmus Tietchens, as well as the set released many albums through the label. He also released limited divide 7″ singles with Tietchens and Illusion of Basic safety. Köner’s solo record, Unerforschtes Gebiet, made an appearance on Pass away Stadt in 2001, originally released being a picture-disc LP. He continuing to record for Mille Plateaux, with live documenting Daikan appearing over the label in early 2002 and a collaborative double-CD, Zyklop, pursuing in 2003. The label’s short-lived successor, Mille Plateaux, reissued Nuuk using a Dvd movie in 2004. After a hiatus, Köner came back in ’09 2009 with La Barca, an ambitious record offering field recordings in the world’s major metropolitan areas. This year 2010, Type reissued Köner’s initial three albums; a Biokinetics reissue implemented over the label in 2012. The same calendar year also saw the discharge of Köner’s Novaya Zemlya on Touch. He collaborated with Jana Winderen for the live show in Normandy, France in 2014, and Contact released the documenting as Cloître. Köner’s sparse, piano-centered Tiento de las Nieves made an appearance on German label Denovali through the same yr. In 2015, The Futurist Manifesto, Köner’s mini-opera about the Italian Futurist motion, premiered on Dvd and blu-ray from the Von label. Tiento de la Luz, the next area of the Tiento trilogy, was released by Denovali in 2016.