Kim Cascone

Infobox musical artist

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Name = Kim Cascone
Landscape =
Background = electronic and computer music, sound design, aesthetics
Birth_name = Kim Cascone
Born = birth date and age|1955|12|21 Albion, Michigan,
United States
Instrument = Laptop, Max/MSP,CSound
Genre = microsound
Laptop Music
Noise
Occupation = Composer
Writer
Sound Designer
Years_active = 1983 – present
Label = anechoic, Silent Records
Associated_acts =
URL = [http://www.anechoicmedia.com Kim Cascone and anechoic]

Kim Cascone (December 21, 1955 Albion, Michigan) is an American composer of electronic music, who is best known for his releases in the ambient genre on his own record company, Silent Records. Cascone studied electronic music at Berklee College of Music, Boston, and started his career as assistant musical supervisor to director David Lynch on "Twin Peaks" and "Wild At Heart". In the mid-80s he left the film industry to pursue a solo career in San Francisco, California. He founded Silent Records in 1986, and went on to release several albums under the moniker PGR (an abbreviation of Poison Gas Research). He has used various aliases over the years, but has become 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 has since released four full albums under this name from 1993 to 1996.

In 1996 he left the Silent label to work for a period as a sound engineer. He returned to making music in 1999, and has since been releasing records using his own name, most on his new record company, Anechoic (named after his last Heavenly Music Corporation release), which he established in 2000.

Cascone has a wife, Kathleen (b. 1959) and a son, Cage (b. 1993). Cage Cascone was named after John Cage.

Discography

*"Cathode Flower" (Ritornell 1999)
*"Dust Theories" (c74 2001)
*"The Crystalline Address", with Scanner (Sub Rosa 2002)
*"Pulsar Studies" (Anechoic 2004)
*"Rondo / 7Phases / Blowback", with Merzbow (Sub Rosa 2004)

As PGR

*"The Flickering of Sowing Time" (RRRecords 1986)
*"The Black Field" (Silent 1989)
*"Fetish", with Arcane Device (Silent 1990)
*"The Chemical Bride (Silent 1992)
*"The Morning Book of Serpents" (Silent 1995)
*"A Hole of Unknown Depth (Silent 1996)

As Heavenly Music Corporation

*"In a Garden of Eden" (Silent 1993)
*"Consciousness III" (Silent 1994)
*"Lunar Phase" (Silent 1995)
*"Anechoic" (Silent 1996)

External links

* [http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,538583,00.html#bio Heavenly Music Corporation artist biography on Artistdirect.com]
* [http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,551445,00.html#bio Kim Cascone artist biography on Artistdirect.com]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kim+Cascone Discogs page]
* [http://www.spiderbytes.com/ambientrance/cascone.htm Kim Cascone interview]