website associated_acts years_active birth_place label background instrument birth_date genre article_title name
-lsb- http://www.thomasankersmit.net www.thomasankersmit.net -rsb- phill niblock , kevin drumm , valerio tricoli 1998-present leiden , netherlands pan , touch , ash international , tochnit aleph non_vocal_instrumentalist modular synthesizer , laptop , saxophone 1979 experimental , electroacoustic thomas ankersmit
 thomas ankersmit
thomas ankersmit

thomas ankersmit -lrb- born 1979 , leiden , netherlands -rrb- is a musician and installation artist based in berlin and amsterdam .
his main instrument , both live and in the studio , is the serge analogue modular synthesizer .
physical and psychoacoustic phenomena such as sound reflections , infrasonic vibration , otoacoustic emissions , and highly directional projections of sound have been an important part of his work since the early 2000s .
his electronic music is also characterized by a deliberate misuse of the equipment , using feedback and disruptions in the signal to create many of the sounds .
ankersmit frequently collaborates with new york-based minimalist composer phill niblock , electroacoustic improviser valerio tricoli and noise artist kevin drumm .
during the first ten years of his activities , ankersmit focussed almost exclusively on live performance and installation work .
since 2010 , his music has been released on the pan , touch and ash international labels .
