Profile
Kurt Liedwart is an electronic music producer, DJ and record label owner who started his musical career in the mid nineties and has since been working across an eclectic set of aesthetic investigations, exploring intersections of ambient, techno and downtempo. In 2010s he became interested in playing and researching experimental and electroacoustic music and sound art although in 2019 he decided to return to his techno and ambient roots.
As a curator, Liedwart focuses on creating opportunities for artists and audience to build bridges that help to get rid of abyss that separates them. This began in 2008 when he launched MIKROTON recordings with its sub-labels Mikroton Digital and Laminal with a focus on limited edition releases on CDs, LPs and cassettes by a wide range of world renowned sound artists, composers and producers working in a broad range of musical genres from post-jazzy improvised music, which sometimes tries to mimic electronic timbres, and crossover blends of jazz, post-rock, improv and electronica to ambient and minimal electronica. Since its launch MIKROTON has published over 90 editions and has received positive critical acclaim internationally. Since 2013 he organizes Mikroton Live, a series of concerts dedicated to presenting time-based work by emerging and established artists engaged in sound-based practices through performances, concerts, screenings, and workshops. In 2013 and 2014 he co-organized two editions of Teni Zvuka festival and later in 2017 he curated Swiss Noise festival (in Moscow and Yaroslavl) and in 2018 MIKROTON MIKROTEN (in Kaliningrad, Moscow and St.Petersburg). Since 2021 MIKROTON exists in archival mode with no future activities planned at the moment.
In 2021 he launched TON which focuses on releasing ambient, downtempo electronic and techno music of his own production, collaborations with likeminded electronic musicians and rarely their own solo albums on CDs, tapes and sometimes on vinyl.
Besides working solo he collaborated with Eryck Abecassis, Burkhard Beins, Ilia Belorukov, Alberto Boccardi, Pierre Borel, Alexei Borisov, Brinstaar, Thomas Buckner, Gregory Büttner, Pedro Chambel, Timothy Daisy, d’incise, Bruno Duplant, Edyta Fil, Klaus Filip, Miguel A. Garcia, Christian Kobi, Tomas Korber, Sergey Kostyrko, Annette Krebs, Dmitry Krotevich, Christof Kurzmann, Gerard Lebik, Hannes Lingens, Xavier Lopez, Oleg Makarov, Radu Malfatti, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Norbert Möslang, Christian Müller, Günter Müller, Mikhail Myasoedov, Noid, Julien Ottavi, Patrick K.-H., Stefano Pilia, Andrey Popovskiy, Nicola Ratti, Phil Raymond, Billy Roisz, Keith Rowe, Ignaz Schick, Boris Shershenkov, Piotr Tkacz, Birgit Ulher and others.
His recorded sound works have been released by MIKROTON, Ruin Tapes, Zeromoon, Hideous Replica, Copy For Your Records, Untitled Folder, Meteorismo, Intonema and others.
Profile
Kurt Liedwart is an electronic music producer, DJ and record label owner who started his musical career in the mid nineties and has since been working across an eclectic set of aesthetic investigations, exploring intersections of ambient, techno and downtempo. In 2010s he became interested in playing and researching experimental and electroacoustic music and sound art although in 2019 he decided to return to his techno and ambient roots.
As a curator, Liedwart focuses on creating opportunities for artists and audience to build bridges that help to get rid of abyss that separates them. This began in 2008 when he launched MIKROTON recordings with its sub-labels Mikroton Digital and Laminal with a focus on limited edition releases on CDs, LPs and cassettes by a wide range of world renowned sound artists, composers and producers working in a broad range of musical genres from post-jazzy improvised music, which sometimes tries to mimic electronic timbres, and crossover blends of jazz, post-rock, improv and electronica to ambient and minimal electronica. Since its launch MIKROTON has published over 90 editions and has received positive critical acclaim internationally. Since 2013 he organizes Mikroton Live, a series of concerts dedicated to presenting time-based work by emerging and established artists engaged in sound-based practices through performances, concerts, screenings, and workshops. In 2013 and 2014 he co-organized two editions of Teni Zvuka festival and later in 2017 he curated Swiss Noise festival (in Moscow and Yaroslavl) and in 2018 MIKROTON MIKROTEN (in Kaliningrad, Moscow and St.Petersburg). Since 2021 MIKROTON exists in archival mode with no future activities planned at the moment.
In 2021 he launched TON which focuses on releasing ambient, downtempo electronic and techno music of his own production, collaborations with likeminded electronic musicians and rarely their own solo albums on CDs, tapes and sometimes on vinyl.
Besides working solo he collaborated with Eryck Abecassis, Burkhard Beins, Ilia Belorukov, Alberto Boccardi, Pierre Borel, Alexei Borisov, Brinstaar, Thomas Buckner, Gregory Büttner, Pedro Chambel, Timothy Daisy, d’incise, Bruno Duplant, Edyta Fil, Klaus Filip, Miguel A. Garcia, Christian Kobi, Tomas Korber, Sergey Kostyrko, Annette Krebs, Dmitry Krotevich, Christof Kurzmann, Gerard Lebik, Hannes Lingens, Xavier Lopez, Oleg Makarov, Radu Malfatti, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Norbert Möslang, Christian Müller, Günter Müller, Mikhail Myasoedov, Noid, Julien Ottavi, Patrick K.-H., Stefano Pilia, Andrey Popovskiy, Nicola Ratti, Phil Raymond, Billy Roisz, Keith Rowe, Ignaz Schick, Boris Shershenkov, Piotr Tkacz, Birgit Ulher and others.
His recorded sound works have been released by MIKROTON, Ruin Tapes, Zeromoon, Hideous Replica, Copy For Your Records, Untitled Folder, Meteorismo, Intonema and others.