Kim Cascone
| Kim Cascone | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Kim Cascone |
| Born |
December 21, 1955 Albion, Michigan, United States |
| Genres |
Microsound Noise Ambient Ambient Industrial Electro-acoustic Field Recording Binaural Beats |
| Occupation(s) |
Composer Writer Sound Designer Teacher Lecturer |
| Instruments |
Laptop Max/MSP CSound Pure Data Synthesizer field recorder Ardour Hydrophones |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Labels | anechoicmedia Silent Records Sub Rosa Ritornell Raster-Noton C74 12k Nexsound Aural Terrains Störung Monotype Emitter Micro timemachines |
| Associated acts | Heavenly Music Corporation PGR Spice Barons Thessalonians KGB |
| Website | Kim Cascone and anechoic |
Kim Cascone (December 21, 1955) is an American composer of electronic music who is known for his releases in the ambient, industrial and electro-acoustic genre on his own record company, Silent Records.
In the late 1989 Cascone became an assistant music editor for director David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Wild At Heart. He has used various aliases over the years but became best known under the moniker Heavenly Music Corporation, a name taken from a track on the record (No Pussyfooting) by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. Cascone released four full albums under this name from 1993 to 1996.
In 1996 Cascone sold Silent Records and Pulsoniq Distribution to work as a sound designer/composer for Thomas Dolby's company Headspace. After Headspace, Cascone went on to serve as the Director of Content for Staccato Systems, a spin-off company from CCRMA, Stanford University where he co-invented an algorithm for realistic audio atmospheres and backgrounds for video games called Event Modeling. He returned to making music in 1999 and has since been releasing records using his own name on various labels as well as his own label, anechoic (named after his last Heavenly Music Corporation release), which he established in 1996. Cascone has released more than 40 albums of electronic music since 1984 and has recorded/performed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Tony Conrad, Scanner, John Tilbury, Domenico Sciajno and Pauline Oliveros among others.
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