Pharmakustik

Pharmakustik is the solo name of Siegmar Fricke, a German electronic musician who has worked with sound since 1981, when he began building musique concrète pieces from shortwave radio and noises recorded on tape. Since the early 2000s he has used the Pharmakustik name for abstract studio electronics with sampled ambiences, processed voices and sparse rhythms, often titled with medical terms. Fricke was active in the international tape scene between 1985 and 1993, and he co-founded or played in projects such as Delta-Sleep-Inducing Peptide, Doppelwirkung and Efficient Refineries.