Kim Cascone


Kim Cascone is an 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.

Biography

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 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, which he established in 1996. Cascone has released more than 50 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.
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.
In 2016 Cascone rebooted his record label Silent Records and is digitally distributed by The Orchard.
From 2016 to December 30th, 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