Atte Elias Kantonen
Cyan Music
Tip! ** Edition of 70 ** On Cyan Music, Atte Elias Kantonen sets out to answer a deceptively simple question: what happens when shimmer and sheen – qualities usually belonging to light – are reimagined as pure sound. Across eight pieces he uses radiant, meticulously sculpted synthesis to build a world where timbre behaves like reflective surfaces, refracting and scattering in ways that feel almost tangible. Rather than leaning on obvious ambient tropes, he treats each track as a small laboratory…
a path with a name
Limited to 300 copies. Atte Elias Kantonen is a composer and sound designer based in Helsinki, Finland. “a path with a name” follows well-received releases on Mappa and Active Listeners Club, and finds Kantonen expanding the scope of his dynamic and idiosyncratic practice. Here, he places his listeners within an auditive diorama, affording them myriad views of the microscopic landscapes contained there within. An oneiric narrative is established from the opening track, in which a heavily treated…
Studies In Audio Fabrics
**Limited to 80 copies. Comes in cardboard gatefold sleeve** Studies in Audio Fabrics by Atte Elias Kantonen is a set of five compositions that came together as part of studies and research on auditory texture perception and pseudo-acoustic phenomena regarding electronic sound. Composed and recorded at Willem Twee Studios with their exceptional array of instruments, the pieces act as attempts to render events, sceneries and causalities by auditory fabrications of kinetic forces, shapes and textu…