Ambient / Noise / from Basel, Switzerland
B�TONG is Chris Sigdell, former member of the German experimental industrial group NID (1995 - 2005).
With B�TONG he reaches for the nether regions of experimental electronic sound and has established himself as an acknowledged soundscape artist.
His music is a choice of dark, brooding layers of sound, high-pitched tones and weird electronic sounds that give birth to images of darkness and tranquillity, the solitude of an icy polar night or the equivalent of an underwater journey into a bottomless pit. To create these soundscapes, he uses found samples and self-made recordings and processes these on the computer together with recordings of his own voice and other vocal samples. There are no traditional instruments involved. In a live-situation Chris Sigdell relies on playing metal-sheets, electric toys and various kitchen utensils. The sounds thus generated are put through various effect-pedals giving him that trademark B�TONG sound.
B�TONG plays as much as possible, as this is part of his ambition. He travels all over the western and eastern european countries and has toured Russia once, and the U.S.A. and Canada twice. He has shared the stage with well-known artists like: Aun, Batur S�nmez, Column One, Dave Phillips, Frontline Assembly, Origami Galaktika, Sudden Infant, The (Law) Rah Collective, To Live And Shave In LA, Troum, Zbigniew Karkowski and many others. He has played festivals such as: Sinus-Series (Basel 2006), Ausklang (Hamburg 2006), Shift (Basel 2007 & 2008), Lab 30 (Augsburg 2009) , St�y P� Landet (Rognes 2010), Unser Industrie V (Leipzig 2011), Zeit F�r L�rm 5 (Osnabr�ck 2012), and performed on a number of renown radio stations.
Sometimes B�TONG collaborates with other artists (Alain Courtis, Batur S�nmez, Diskrepant, Origami Galaktika, PS Stamps Back, TBC, Tamagawa) and is part of installations (�Polarkreis� & �95�� by Brigitte Gierlich & Camilla Schuler) or video-projects (�Images� by Ulrich Fischer). He also does his own video-clips - the video to Sphere II was shown at the 2007 Miami Art Fair as part of the Urban Nomad film-festival; the videos to Black Dog Dream and 95� were shown in Beijing (Taiwan). The video �Fragile Package� was made by video artist Silvia Bergmann.
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