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Thomas Köner, born 1965, attended the music college in Dortmund and studied electronic music at the CEM-Studio in Arnhem. Until 1994 he worked with film sound as sound engineer. He extended his concept of sound colour to moving images, resulting in video installations and film works. 2000 the Montreal International Festival New Cinema New Media awarded him the “New Media Prize”. 2004 the Prix Ars Electronica awarded him the “Golden Nica”, and he was awarded the “Produktionspreis WDR / Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis” (german sound art award). His media installation “Suburbs Of The Void” received the Transmediale 2005 award in Berlin and was presented at La Biennale di Venezia, Teatro La Fenice as a live performance in the same year. Köners video “Nuuk” received the Tiger Cub Award (best short film) during the International Filmfestival Rotterdam 2005.

While studying, he dedicated himself to intensive sound research in the recording studio. His first impulse consisted in avoiding rhythm and melody and focusing instead on the phenomenon of sound colour. To intensify the experience of sound, he decided to work with other media, resulting at first in the collaboration with film artist Jürgen Reble and the live performance Alchemie (1992).

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1	Nuuk (Air) full track	86
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6	28° 41' N 17° 45' W (Hour Four)	51
7	35° 40' N 139° 42' E (Hour One)	49
7	Nuuk (Day) full track	49
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10	43° 42' N 7° 16' E (Hour Two)	48
11	41° 53' N 12° 29' E (Hour Five)	46
12	Amras full track	39
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yarin84 wrote:
20 days ago

La Barca is incredibly beautiful release, no other on field recordings based album has touched my heart so deeply... without doubts album of the year for me...

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Grafmeester wrote:
22 days ago

koener is a master of sub frequencies. noobs, eat your hearts out!

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Pewp wrote:
last month

"La Barca is great" - Amen to that.

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elchingolense wrote:
October 2009

La Barca is great

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nibus wrote:
September 2009

@mars624 - try here: http://www.koener.de/video.htm

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mars624 wrote:
September 2009

anywhre i could watch some of the silent films hes produced for?

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adrianoesteves wrote:
September 2009

La Barca arrived today woohoo! [2]

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malonemuert wrote:
September 2009

any world tournee for La Barca (and upcoming Neues Land)? Hehe

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nibus wrote:
September 2009

La Barca arrived today woohoo!

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utopiantheorist wrote:
September 2009

La Barca out!

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Ponciac wrote:
August 2009

The term 'isolationist ambient' is sometimes used to describe drone music with glacial, introspective, cosmic themes, etc. It's a somewhat extraneous adjective when you consider what ambient music actually is, but it seems fitting to describe artists such as Köner, Oöphoi, Netherworld, et al.

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mars624 wrote:
August 2009

dark ambient doesnt seem to fit koners music all too much...its something else..

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ok- wrote:
August 2009

lol, it's not gay, kid.

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elchingolense wrote:
July 2009

Winter drone :D

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NetherworldGM wrote:
June 2009

Dear listeners and friends, Glacial Movements is glad to announce you a new upcoming CD by the greatest artist of all time of glacial and deep isolationist atmospheres: THOMAS KONER The CD will be available on October 2009.Other releases just scheduled: FRANCISCO LOPEZ "Amarok" MARSEN JULES AIDAN BAKER/TROUM ....I'll keep you posted.... Alessandro/NETHERWORLD Glacial Movements Records www.glacialmovements.com

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CrysLexeth wrote:
June 2009

Substrata is full of gay samples. Some of it is great, a lot of it is typical cheesy mainstream "chillout" music.

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kschro wrote:
June 2009

Listening to Nuuk, this reminds me of Substrata more than anything.

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malonemuert wrote:
May 2009

At last - on Glacial Movements site there's news about new Thomas album to be released this year!

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special_user wrote:
May 2009

\m/

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cition wrote:
April 2009

makes perfect sense. thank you so much Thomas :) -j

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