Mikroton Recordings

Mikroton Recordings is an independent record label for experimental electronic music, founded by Kurt Liedwart and based in Moscow, Russia. Mikroton works with a wide range of musicians working in the field of electronic music like sound artist Günter Müller, laptop improviser Christof Kurzmann, electronic musician Jason Kahn and pioneer of tabletop guitar Keith Rowe, turntablists Dieb13 and eRikm, sound artists Stephen Vitiello, Thomas Lehn, Marcus Schmickler, homemade electronics performer Norbert Möslang, guitarist Burkhard Stangl, composers of electroacoustic music Jérôme Noetinger, Angélica Castelló and others. It usually publishes drone, ambient, electronic, experimental music and works with mixed electronic and acoustic instrumentation, trying to research a land between electronic and acoustic fields. The label released two seminal compilation recordings for Austrian group of artists known as klingt.org, who work in the fields of electroacoustic, experimental music and free improvisation, and Echtzeitmusik scene from Berlin. Mikroton Recordings also hosts concerts in Moscow and worldwide and ran Teni Zvuka, Swiss Noise and Mikroton Mikroten festivals. In 2021 the record label was rebranded to TON editions.

Mikroton Recordings
Founded2008 (2008)
FounderKurt Liedwart
Genreelectronic music, electroacoustic music, live electronic music, sound art, experimental music, minimalism, ambient, drone, post-rock
Country of originRussia
LocationMoscow
Official websitewww.toneditions.info

Discography

See also
  • List of record labels

References

    1. Feature on the label on Clear Spot show on Resonance FM: http://resonancefm.com/archives/21642%5B%5D
    2. The label's portrait in Austrian freiStil Magazine: http://freistil.klingt.org/index.html
    3. Nina Polaschegg about Mikroton Recordings in NOWJazz show of SWR2 radio: http://www.lastradiopoets.net/archives/31410%5B%5D
    4. Kurt Liedwart's interview with the Russian jazz critic Dmitry Ukhov on Radio Culture: http://www.moskva.fm/stations/FM_91.6/programs/%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D1%8F%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B0/2014-06-07_01:00
    5. Curt Cuisine. Gebrannte Kinder in Skug Magazine: https://skug.at/article7621.htm
    6. Thomas Shrubsole. Gently Down The Volga in The Sound Projector: http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2015/04/20/gently-down-the-volga/
    7. Paul Khimasia Morgan. Common Purpose in The Sound Projector: http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2014/09/13/common-purpose/

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