Kim Cascone


Kim Cascone is an Italian American composer of electronic music who is known for his releases in the ambient, drone, industrial and electro-acoustic genre on his own record label, Silent Records.
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Biography

In 1989 Cascone became an assistant music editor for director David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Wild At Heart. Musically 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 Beatnik. After leaving the company in 1998, 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, which he established in 1996. Cascone has released more than 50 albums of electronic music since 1984 and has recorded or performed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Tony Conrad, Scanner, John Tilbury, Domenico Sciajno and Pauline Oliveros, among others.
In academic writing, Cascone is known for his paper The Aesthetics of Failure, which outlined the use of digital glitches and systemic failure in the creation of post-digital and laptop music. He is also on the advisory board of the academic sound journal based in Dublin, Ireland.
Cascone holds dual Italian and American citizenship as of September 2008.
In 2016 Cascone rebooted his record label Silent Records.
From 2016 to December 30, 2017, Cascone served as the music director for The Silent Channel on SomaFM, an online streaming radio station that features the Silent Records catalog.

Discography

' Cathode Flower
  • ' Residualism Dust Theories The Crystalline Address, with Scanner Pulsar Studies Rondo/7Phases/Blowback, with Merzbow Gravity Handler Statistically Improbable Phrases The Astrum Argentum Pharmacie: Green & Red Music for Dagger & Guitar anti-musical celestial forces The Knotted Constellation
  • ''Subflowers - Phi''

As PGR

Silence The Flickering of Sowing Time Cyclone Inhabited by Immobility The Black Field Fetish, with Arcane Device The Chemical Bride The Morning Book of Serpents
  • ''A Hole of Unknown Depth''

As Heavenly Music Corporation

In a Garden of Eden Consciousness III Lunar Phase
  • ''Anechoic''

As Khem One

Copperopolis - Guitar Study Modal Gauzes No. 1 - Guitar Study Pollen & Fragments Heliodronus - Messenger of the Sun Lunadronus - The Realm of Lunar Gauzes Threshold of Eastern Octaves
  • ''Subtle Immobilities''

With Thessalonians

The Unwinding The Concentration of Light Prior to Combustion Imbrication 2: An Investigaton Into Documenting Change Systems The Black Field Soulcraft
  • ''Solaristics''

With Spice Barons

  • ''Future Perfect State''

With KGB Trio

Swiss Pharmaceuticals Smoke on Devil's Mountain
  • ''Noise Forest''

With Acéphale

  • ''Kraut Vedas''