Electroshock Records: Personalities:  
Phillip B. Klingler
 

Ambient Noise composer, Phillip B. Klingler, has had a long career in electronic/experimental music. Better known as PBK (the initials of his name), his soundwork has been released on many international record labels and he has performed concerts throughout the U.S. and in Europe. Over the last 18 years numerous collaborations have found him working with a dizzying array of well-known international sound artists such as Vidna Obmana, Asmus Tietchens, Christian Renou (Brume), Jarboe (Swans), Artificial Memory Trace, and many others. His co-projects with Artemiy Artemiev, "Dreams in Moving Space" and "A Moment of Infinity", both won critical praise as ambient/space-music masterpieces, receiving extensive radio airplay around the world and landing in the "Top 50 of the U.S. New Age charts". "Godsend magazine" said this about his music: "(an) exceptional modern composer whose raw, evocative sound manipulations are easily more interesting than better-known peers like the Hafler Trio. PBK's electronic sculpturings are organic in feel, both natural and synthetic, creating entirely new universes, with each track distinctive and personal." 2004 finds PBK continuing to create his challenging soundscape music with several releases planned, performing concerts in and around the Detroit area and working on soundtracks for various independent films.



Discography

Solo works

2003

Flowers on Razorwire/Chance Meeting - (Soundtrack, DVD, dir. Hart D. Fisher)

1996-1998

The Mescaline Tracks - (MC, PBK Recordings)

Headmix - (MC, PBK Recordings)

Life-Sense Revoked - (CD, Lunhare Records)

1993-1995

Listening to the World Vibrate - (MC, PBK Recordings)

Shadows of Prophecy/in His Throes - (CD, ND Recordings)

1990-1992

Macrophage/Toil & the Reap - (CD, ND Recordings)
Domineer/Asesino/Retro - (3xLP Boxset, RRRecordings)
Narcosis - (MC, PBK Recordings)
Thrill Pictures - (2xMCs, PBK Recordings)
A Noise Supreme - (MC, PBK Recordings)

1987-1989

Die Brucke - (MC, PBK Recordings)
Asesino! - (MC, PBK Recordings)
Descent - (MC, PBK Recordings)
Poetry & Motion - (MC, PBK Recordings)



Collaboration Projects

With Zan Hoffman (& Guests):

2002-2003

You, me, Us & Them/Offer Freelove Tamper Functionaries - (CD)

Your Life Has Been Inferred for You - (CD)

With Artemiy Artemiev

2002

A Moment of Infinity - (CD, Electroshock Records ELCD 022)

2000

Dreams in Moving Space - (CD, Electroshock Records ELCD 014)

as "Mechapoet" with Kei Kunihiro:

2002

Poet & Killer - (CD, Noriyin Creative House)

With Artificial Memory Trace (AMT):

2000

Transphere. 1997-1999 - (CD, Erewhon Records)

with Hands To & AMK

1995

System-Music-End - (CD, RRRecords)

With AMK

1995

Shifts in Strategy - (MC, PBK Recordings)

With Vidna Obmana:

1995

Memories Compiled - (Double CD, Projekt)

1989

Depression & Ideal - (MC, PBK Recordings)

1988

Monument of Empty Colours - (MC, Decade Collection)

With Asmus Tietchens:

1992

Five Manifestos - (CD, Realization Records)

With Deaf Lions:

1989

Shamanistic - (MC, PBK Reordings)

With Hands To

1989

Melachoir - (MC, PBK Recordings)

1988

Verfall - (MC, PBK Recordings)

With Minoy

1988

Chansons Mystiques - (MC, PBK Recordings)
Cloisters - (MC, PBK Recordings)

With Minoy (as "Disco Splendor" project)

1987

Heteroglossia - (MC, PBK Recordings)
Correct Music - (MC, PBK Recordings)
Mythology Live - (MC, PBK Recordings)

Compilation CDs

2003

The Walls are Whispering - (CD, SABAM Records) - 1 Track - "Impulsion"
El Tafkeera/Re-Mixes in Remembrance of Muslimgauze - (Double CD) - 2 Tracks

2002

Nonexistence, IEM #4 - (CD, Independent Electronic Music Magazine #4) - 1 Track - "Scan Lock"
Disco Disco - (CD, Hum) - 1 Track - "Origin Mode, v.2, Geomporhic Profile"

1999 - 2000

The Unquiet Grave - (CD, Cleopatra Records) - 1 Track
Zann - (CD, Silber Records) - 1 Track (as "Alchemia" project with Athan Maroulis)
Coalescence - (CD, Alien 8 Recordings) - 1 Track

1996 - 1998

The Carnival Within (Dead Can Dance Tribute) - (CD, Cleopatra Records) - 1 Track (with Jarboe)

1993 - 1995

The Passing Gods - (CD, Playloud) - 1 Track

1990 - 1992

As Yet Untitled - (CD, Realization Records)
Object 4 - (CD, Ladd Frith Records) - 1 Track

Website: http://pbksound.com

 

 
 
 
     
 
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