PBK (composer)

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PBK (real name is Phillip B. Klingler) is a composer that works in the genres of Noise and/or Ambient music.

Sound composer, Phillip B. Klingler, better known as PBK, has been active in the experimental music underground since 1986. His soundwork correlates to electroacoustic, classic industrial and free jazz genres. PBK has fashioned a noise-based music that doesn't rely on power electronics process, but rather, by placing noises themselves into ambient/atmospheric sound environments. His soundworks are composed from turntable manipulation, sampling and analog/digital synthesis. Improvising spontaneously and with little preconception, PBK creates pulsing, echoing, organic soundscapes of unknown sonic origin.

PBK has performed live throughout the U.S. and in Europe. A restless collaborator, he has worked with some of the most respected names in experimental music. A partial list would include such musicians as Wolf Eyes, Asmus Tietchens, Vidna Obmana, Artificial Memory Trace, Jarboe(Swans), AMK, Jeph Jerman(Hands To), Artemiy Artemiev, Adam Mokan(8-Bit Porno), Athan Maroulis(Spahn Ranch), Aube, Guillermo Gregorio and many others. Over the course of nearly 20 years PBK has had over 35 full-length albums released internationally establishing a complex body of work that reveals a unique approach to the "noise" aesthetic.