Ariel Kalma
Ariel Kalma, born in Paris in 1947, is a French composer and multi-instrumentalist and one of the quiet pioneers of ambient and drone music. He took up the recorder as a boy and the saxophone as a teenager, studied electronics and computing alongside music, and in the 1970s worked in the electronic studios of the ORTF and travelled widely, absorbing sounds from India in particular. His self-produced albums of that decade, among them Le Temps des Moissons and Osmose, made with breathing loops, saxophone drones, synthesizers and field recordings of insects, went almost unheard until the reissues of the 2010s revealed him as a kindred spirit of Terry Riley and Éliane Radigue.
Ariel Kalma, born in Paris in 1947, is a French composer and multi-instrumentalist and one of the quiet pioneers of ambient and drone music. He took up the recorder as a boy and the saxophone as a teenager, studied electronics and computing alongside music, and in the 1970s worked in the electronic studios of the ORTF and travelled widely, absorbing sounds from India in particular. His self-produced albums of that decade, among them Le Temps des Moissons and Osmose, made with breathing loops, saxophone drones, synthesizers and field recordings of insects, went almost unheard until the reissues of the 2010s revealed him as a kindred spirit of Terry Riley and Éliane Radigue.
