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Thomas Köner is a German ambient musician and multimedia artist. He has recorded several dark ambient/drone albums, worked with field recordings, and created audiovisual installations which were exposed in various museums worldwide.

Thomas Köner was born in 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.
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  • Lysandr

    for people who say Köner is "too quiet": turn it up, and get some listening equipment that can handle those low frequencies. Köner can be some of the most intensely loud and earth-shattering music there is.

    3 hours ago Reply

  • faaa360

    Daikan гениален

    10 May 11:05am Reply

  • Hydropolis

    it's tropical and humid and sunny outside, but listening to mr. köner's music still makes me feel that i'm stranded on a huge glacier in the middle of the arctic. wooonderful stuff, the trio of nunatak / teimo / permafrost is fantastic.

    2 May 4:51pm Reply

  • malonemuert

    elcruusto - try discogs (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Thomas+K%C3%B6ner), you can find almost every possible TK record there... good luck finding Aubrite in decent price though, it's one of the rarest TK albums.

    28 Apr 9:10pm Reply

  • Night_Driver

    Interview with Thomas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr5RgUZWANY

    28 Apr 4:05pm Reply

  • Tuntury

    I tried to send you a pm elcruusto, but couldn't due to your privacy settings.

    27 Apr 8:22am Reply

  • elcruusto

    I can't get hold of Aubrite or Kaamos anywhere, nowhere sells them anymore. What do you do in this situation? Is the album just lost indefinitely?

    26 Apr 1:27pm Reply

  • EzExZeRo7497

    Honestly all of his work is great. I like La Barca (vivid imagery), Daikan and Kaamos (both for atmosphere) the most, but none of his albums are bad to begin with.

    25 Apr 2:57pm Reply

  • malonemuert

    not much love for Aubrite... at least TK loves it himself - both times I saw him live he heavily used samples from this album :)

    22 Apr 12:06pm Reply

  • Bukowskiaroxysm

    Permaforst, Daikan, Teimo, and Kaamos are my faves. Tabula Smaragdina is probably one of his best.

    22 Apr 2:21am Reply

  • malonemuert

    Best albums - Teimo, Permafrost, Aubrite, Kaamos, Daikan. Best tracks - Tabula Smaragdina >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ilira >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Teimo, Kaamos 2, Kaamos 1, Nuuk (Air), Grohuk (Day), Daikan.

    21 Apr 3:29pm Reply

  • Tuntury

    Get Daikan, Kaamos and Nuuk also! Tabula Smaragdina from Kaamos is one of Köner's best tracks.

    21 Apr 11:02am Reply

  • neckermanncj

    I'm giving him another shot, I downloaded Nunatak, Permafrost and Teimo!

    20 Apr 2:02am Reply

  • squezey

    Yes night time, really dark atmospheric stuff that's more meant to be background music. Horrible state of mind I was in last night and this was all I could listen to, certainly not positive music but quite the experience in darkness if your in the mood for it.

    19 Apr 1:31pm Reply

  • Night_Driver

    v Night time is the right time to do it

    14 Apr 11:16am Reply

  • neckermanncj

    I can't really get into him that much because his work is almost too quiet. Maybe I should listen through headphones though...

    13 Apr 3:56am Reply

  • Tuntury

    Would've been nice if it had some colour on it.

    6 Apr 5:33pm Reply

  • Tranceroute

    Come on guys, vote this awful photo down http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Thomas+K%C3%B6ner/+images/87375429

    25 Mar 6:05pm Reply

  • nulldll

    All of his stuff is good. Stop comparing, they're each separate entities and each have their own highlights.

    9 Jan 1:44am Reply

  • Tranceroute

    check photo's for update, guys

    9 Dec 2012 Reply
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