Biography
Thomas Köner is one of the most influential modernist minimal composers. He has been centrally responsible for electronic music’s fascination with depth and reduction. His signature sound is vast, seemingly endless, which at first seems homogenous and infinite, but once exposed to it, when our senses calibrate to the fine nuances of changes, we discover and immerse into abundance of textures, richness of modulations and almost infinite range of sonic titillations.
He was awarded the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica in Digital Musics in 2004.
As Porter Ricks, and most recently with his new and critically acclaimed Motus project, he twists dub techno into wild, abstracted shapes influenced by underwater acoustics and tidal flux — an approach equally as radical as that of minimalist pioneers Basic Channel, whose Chain Reaction label published much of Porter Ricks’ early work. Almost two decades on from their 90s-era releases, Tresor Records released Shadow Boat and Anguilla Electrica, unleashing muscular rhythms and hypnotic sound design. His new Motus project is closing the gap between the vast, pulsating landscapes of his solo work and the bodily material of Porter Ricks.