Kim Cascone

Kim Cascone (December 21, 1955, in Albion, Michigan) is an American composer of electronic music who is best known for his releases in the ambient genre on his own record company, Silent Records. Cascone studied electronic music at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, and he started his career as assistant musical supervisor of director David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Wild At Heart. In the mid-80s he left the film industry to pursue a solo career in San Francisco, California. He founded Silent Records in 1986 and went on to release several albums under the moniker PGR (short for Poison Gas Research). He has used various aliases over the years but became best known under the moniker Heavenly Music Corporation, a name taken from a track on the record No Pussyfooting by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. Cascone released four full albums under this name from 1993 to 1996. His third Heavenly Music Corporation album, Lunar Phase (1995), was featured on St.GIGA radio, the Japanese ambient radio station whose name became the title of the longest song on this album.

In 1996 Cascone sold the Silent label to work as a sound designer/composer for Thomas Dolby's company Headspace. He returned to making music in 1998 and has since been releasing records using his own name, mostly on his label, anechoic (named after his last Heavenly Music Corporation release), which he established in 1996.

Cascone has a wife, Kathleen (b. 1959), and a son, Cage (b. 1993). Cage Cascone was named after John Cage.

Discography

• Blue Cube [ ] (Raster-Noton 1998)
• Cathode Flower (Ritornell 1999)
• Dust Theories (c74 2001)
• The Crystalline Address, with Scanner (Sub Rosa 2002)
• Pulsar Studies (anechoic 2004)
• Rondo/7Phases/Blowback, with Merzbow (Sub Rosa 2004)
• Gravity Handler ( CRC 2004)
• Statistically Improbable Phrases (anechoic 2006)
• The Astrum Argentum (anechoic 2008)
• Pharmacie: Green & Red ( anechoic 2008)
• Music for Dagger & Guitar ( Aural Terrain 2008)
• anti-musical celestial forces ( Storung 2009)

As PGR

• Silence (PGR, 1985)
• The Flickering of Sowing Time (RRRecords, 1986)
• Cyclone Inhabited by Immobility (Permis de Construire, 1987)
• The Black Field (Silent, 1989)
• Fetish, with Arcane Device (Silent, 1990)
• Transduced Reflections on an Anesthetized Host Body (Silent, 1991)
• The Chemical Bride (Silent, 1992)
• The Morning Book of Serpents (Silent, 1995)
• A Hole of Unknown Depth (Silent, 1996)

As Heavenly Music Corporation

• In a Garden of Eden (Silent, 1993)
• Consciousness III (Silent, 1994)
• Lunar Phase (Silent, 1995)
• Anechoic (Silent, 1996)

External links

• Heavenly Music Corporation artist biography on Artistdirect.com
• Kim Cascone artist biography on Artistdirect.com
• Kim Cascone at Discogs
• Kim Cascone interview

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