Asmus Tietchens

Asmus Tietchens (b. 1947, Hamburg) is a German composer who has maintained one of the most prolific and uncompromising practices in electronic music over more than five decades. Beginning with experiments in tape and synthesis in the 1960s, he developed a distinctive approach to sound construction that draws variously on musique concrète, industrial music, ambient, and pure electronic abstraction, while remaining consistently idiosyncratic.

His output spans dozens of albums, ranging from early works on Sky Records in the late 1970s to prolific releases on Hamburgian and international experimental labels.