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The Sound of Microsound

"The Sound of Microsound" is a deep dive into the precise, often minimal world of digital abstraction and sonic reduction. This playlist strings together leading voices in the microsound movement, a genre rooted in detailed textures, granular synthesis, and an ultra-minimal approach to rhythm and melody. Artists like Ryoji Ikeda, Richard Chartier, and Kim Cascone use silence and space as much as they use sound, creating an experience that’s more about the edges of perception than traditional song structures.

Across the playlist, tracks like “data.matrix” and “variance.1” showcase microsound's reliance on near-silent dynamics and microscopic detail. There's a mixture of glitch-inspired beats, digital noise, and ambient drone—sometimes clinical, sometimes organic, always stripped down. Whether it's the rhythmic pulses of Goem or the barely-there tonal shifts from artists like Eva-Maria Houben and Autistici, "The Sound of Microsound" operates on subtlety and nuance, rewarding careful listening and patience.

Marc Behrens 5 tracks
Steinbrüchel 5 tracks
Richard Chartier 4 tracks
Frank Bretschneider 4 tracks
Noto 3 tracks
Komet 3 tracks
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