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electroacoustic

Last updated: Tue Oct 21 2025 05:19:15 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

Electroacoustic blends electronic processing with organic instrumentation and field recordings, creating textured soundscapes that blur the line between natural and synthetic. This approach spans experimental pop, ambient, and avant-garde contexts, emphasizing timbre and atmosphere over traditional song structure. The sound often feels intimate yet otherworldly, transforming everyday acoustic sources through digital manipulation.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
91		1974	Iannis Xenakis	Persepolis	electroacoustic
57		1975	Bernard Parmegiani	De Natura Sonorum	drone electroacoustic france musique concrete soundscape	soundscape # 70 musique concrete # 87
11		1977	Various Artists	anderswelten	alternative electroacoustic electronic folk
48		1978	Harold Budd	The Pavilion Of Dreams	ambient minimalism contemporary classical	contemporary piano # 15 experimental-ambient # 18 minimal ambient # 19 contemporary classical # 22 minimal piano # 23 neoclassical # 24 spiritual jazz # 33 minimalism # 85 piano ambient # 88
76		1986	Arthur Russell	World of Echo	avant-folk	psychedelic folk # 10 avant-folk # 97
30		1990	Vladimir Ussachevsky	Early Gurus Of Electronics	contemporary classical electroacoustic electronic
83		1991-11	Стук бамбука в XI часов	Лёгкое дело холод	ambient techno dark ambient electroacoustic post-industrial sound collage	post-industrial # 64 ambient techno # 72 sound collage # 73
2		1992	Harold Budd	Pavilion Of Dreams	ambient minimalism contemporary classical	experimental-ambient # 32 minimal ambient # 40 contemporary piano # 44 minimal piano # 47 minimalism # 53 piano ambient # 72
71		1998	Éliane Radigue	Trilogie de la Mort	drone
26		1998-01-12	Supersilent	1-3	avant-garde jazz eai electroacoustic electronic glitch industrial jazz noise	eai # 95
87		1998-08-24	Nuno Canavarro	Plux Quba	electroacoustic
61		1999	Kimmo Pohjonen	Uniko	avant-folk electroacoustic	avant-folk # 22
21		1999	Dean Roberts	And The Black Moths Play The Grand Cinema	electroacoustic post-rock
7		2000-09-19	The Lothars	Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas	electroacoustic electronic
77		2001	Стук бамбука в XI часов	Легкое Дело Холод	ambient techno dark ambient electroacoustic post-industrial sound collage	post-industrial # 61 sound collage # 67 ambient techno # 69
45		2001-12	Takehisa Kosugi	Catch Wave	drone electroacoustic
5		2002	Steve Roden	Winter Couplet	ambient electroacoustic electronic glitch
33		2003	Sinfonye	Hildegard (Hildegard Von Bingen)	electroacoustic female vocalists
100		2003-10-06	Animal Collective	Danse Manatee	electroacoustic electronic folk neo-psychedelia noise	noise # 82
52		2003-11-17	Dean Roberts	Be Mine Tonight	electroacoustic musique concrete	musique concrete # 80
90		2004-05	Fennesz	Cendre	ambient classical electroacoustic electronic glitch
36		2004-07-07	Bruno Sanfilippo	ad Libitum	ambient
41		2005-10	Jan Jelinek	SEASCAPE - polyptych	ambient drone electroacoustic electronic glitch musique concrete	musique concrete # 76
88		2006	Animal Collective	Ark	electroacoustic electronic neo-psychedelia psychedelic folk tribal ambient	psychedelic folk # 37 tribal ambient # 97
24		2006	Reverie Falls On All	clouds in our room	electroacoustic experimental rock glitch post-rock
72		2006	Bruno Sanfilippo	Intro	ambient electroacoustic
39		2006-10-10	Jóhann Jóhannsson	IBM 1401 A User's Manual	contemporary classical neoclassical ambient contemporary piano minimalism piano piano ambient	minimal piano # 34 experimental-ambient # 40 contemporary piano # 43 minimal ambient # 49 piano ambient # 61
40		2006-10-30	Jóhann Jóhannsson	IBM 1401, A User's Manual		minimal piano # 33 experimental-ambient # 39 contemporary piano # 42 minimal ambient # 48 piano ambient # 62
62		2007	Bungalove	Samba Natural	brazil electro electroacoustic lounge
32		2007-02-06	subtractiveLAD	no man's land	ambient downtempo drone electroacoustic electronic glitch idm noise soundtrack synthesizer	synthesizer # 72
47		2007-05-22	Death Ambient	Drunken Forest	electroacoustic
46		2007-09-10	Strings Of Consciousness	Our Moon is Full	electroacoustic electronic
44		2008-02-13	Bersarin Quartett	Bersarin Quartett LP/CD	alternative ambient contemporary classical contemporary piano electroacoustic experimental-ambient minimal ambient minimal piano minimalism neoclassical piano piano ambient	piano ambient # 1 minimal piano # 63 experimental-ambient # 68 minimal ambient # 78
16		2008-07-28	Goldmund	The Malady Of Elegance	neoclassical contemporary classical piano ambient	contemporary piano # 10 experimental-ambient # 11 minimal ambient # 12 minimal piano # 20 postclassical # 52 piano # 63 minimalism # 75 contemporary classical # 76 piano ambient # 90 neoclassical # 93
23		2008-12-01	Humcrush	Rest At Worlds End	ambient electroacoustic electronic meditation
66		2009-02-03	Tenniscoats	Temporacha	ambient electroacoustic field recordings	field recordings # 66
50		2009-04-22	Jana Winderen	The Noisiest Guys On The Planet	drone electroacoustic field recordings	field recordings # 41
8		2009-07-13	Nils Frahm	More Bells For You	contemporary classical neoclassical piano alternative ambient contemporary piano electroacoustic experimental-ambient minimal ambient minimal piano minimalism piano ambient	minimal piano # 89 experimental-ambient # 92
13		2009-09-16	Jim O'Rourke	Peel Session	electroacoustic folktronica
75		2010-03	Sylvain Chauveau	Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)	ambient contemporary classical neoclassical alternative contemporary piano electroacoustic experimental-ambient minimal ambient minimal piano minimalism piano piano ambient	minimal piano # 26 experimental-ambient # 27 minimal ambient # 33 contemporary piano # 51 piano ambient # 54
3		2010-04-23	Fourteen Twentysix	Songs To Forget	acoustic alternative drone electroacoustic electronic netherlands rock shoegaze	netherlands # 55
73		2011	Graham Lambkin	Amateur Doubles	ambient electroacoustic electronic field recordings musique concrete progressive electronic sound collage	progressive electronic # 18 sound collage # 51 field recordings # 73 musique concrete # 93
59		2011-03-28	Rene Hell	The Terminal Symphony	ambient berlin school electroacoustic	berlin school # 90
19		2011-10-21	Dustin O'Halloran	Like Crazy	contemporary classical neoclassical piano alternative ambient contemporary piano experimental-ambient minimal ambient minimal piano minimalism piano ambient	piano ambient # 30 minimal piano # 44 experimental-ambient # 47 minimal ambient # 55 contemporary piano # 74
69		2011-12-08	Felicia Atkinson	Un Hiver En Plein Été	ambient drone electroacoustic musique concrete	musique concrete # 91
15		2012-01-10	Hectic Zeniths	Hectic Zeniths	ambient electroacoustic electronic lo-fi piano trip-hop
28		2012-09-18	Aaron Cherof	Anagnorisis	ambient ambient electronic electroacoustic electronica instrumental piano	ambient electronic # 64
70		2013-01-22	Mountains	Centralia	ambient
22		2013-02-22	Dustin O'Halloran	Now Is Good	alternative ambient contemporary classical contemporary piano electroacoustic experimental-ambient minimal ambient minimal piano minimalism neoclassical piano piano ambient	minimal piano # 82 experimental-ambient # 85 minimal ambient # 97
89		2013-07-15	Nils Frahm	Juno Reworked	alternative ambient contemporary classical contemporary piano electroacoustic experimental-ambient minimal ambient minimal piano minimalism neoclassical piano piano ambient	minimal piano # 16 experimental-ambient # 17 minimal ambient # 18 contemporary piano # 26 minimalism # 35 piano ambient # 76
65		2013-10-14	Tim Hecker	Virgins	ambient	drone # 36
31		2013-11-18	Nils Frahm	Spaces	contemporary classical piano neoclassical ambient	experimental-ambient # 4 minimal piano # 4 minimal ambient # 4 contemporary piano # 5 minimalism # 71 piano # 75 neoclassical # 82 contemporary classical # 84 piano ambient # 96 postclassical # 96
34		2013-12	Jacaszek	Pieśni	electroacoustic
20		2014-04-02	Endless Melancholy	Rêverie | Broken	ambient chillout contemporary classical contemporary instrumental electroacoustic electronic ethereal instrumental minimalism neoclassical orchestral piano piano ambient post-rock soundtrack ukrainian	contemporary instrumental # 63
56		2014-04-28	Fennesz	Bécs	glitch	glitch # 25 experimental techno # 82 microsound # 96
18		2014-10-01	Michael Pisaro	Continuum Unbound	drone electroacoustic musique concrete	musique concrete # 64
58		2014-10-21	Endless Melancholy	Fragile	alternative ambient chillout composer contemporary classical contemporary instrumental contemporary piano electroacoustic electronic ethereal instrumental minimalism neoclassical new age orchestral piano piano ambient post-rock postclassical solo piano soundscape soundtrack ukraine ukrainian	ukrainian # 23 piano ambient # 23 composer # 32 ukraine # 67 postclassical # 71 soundscape # 72 solo piano # 74 contemporary piano # 81 contemporary instrumental # 87
96		2015-02-24	Eartheater	Metalepsis	ambient avant-folk drone electroacoustic ethereal folktronica psychedelic folk	folktronica # 48 psychedelic folk # 50 avant-folk # 73
92		2015-03-24	Kara-Lis Coverdale	Aftertouches	ambient drone electroacoustic new age
51		2015-04-27	Graeme Miller & Steve Shill	The Moomins	electroacoustic soundtrack
67		2015-09-04	Jerusalem in My Heart	If He Dies, If If If If If If
17		2016-03-04	Mary Lattimore	New Rain Duets	electroacoustic
27		2016-11-26	Mica Levi & Oliver Coates	Remain Calm	ambient drone electroacoustic microhouse	microhouse # 54
97		2017-03-30	Xiu Xiu	Girl with Basket of Fruit	post-industrial ritual ambient death industrial	post-industrial # 95 death industrial # 99 ritual ambient # 100
64		2017-05-19	Loke Rahbek	Buy Corals Online	ambient electroacoustic electronic progressive electronic	progressive electronic # 1
53		2017-05-19	Loke Rahbek	Together	ambient electroacoustic folktronica indietronica progressive electronic
86		2017-05-19	Loke Rahbek	Elephant	ambient electroacoustic
60		2017-10-27	Tomoko Sauvage	Musique Hydromantique	electroacoustic
25		2018-04-03	Félicia Atkinson	Coyotes	ambient electroacoustic spoken word
68		2018-08-17	Animal Collective	Tangerine Reef	ambient
1		2018-08-28	Cadu Tenório	Anganga	dark ambient electroacoustic
74		2018-09-28	Tim Hecker	Konoyo	drone electronic ambient	drone # 62
79		2018-10-12	Eli Keszler	Stadium	ambient avant-garde jazz electroacoustic field recordings improvisation	avant-garde jazz # 77 field recordings # 84 improvisation # 90
95		2019-05-24	Tim Hecker	Anoyo	ambient electroacoustic
49		2019-09-19	Sintel	Top Ten most Epic fish of all time	ambient electroacoustic
14		2019-10-22	Claire Rousay	t4t	electroacoustic electronic field recordings musique concrete sound collage spoken word	musique concrete # 63
80		2020-01-31	Mabe fratti	Pies sobre la tierra	ambient pop art pop avant-folk chamber folk drone electroacoustic	chamber folk # 49 avant-folk # 57
99		2020-08-21	Matmos	The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form	electroacoustic electronic field recordings glitch idm plunderphonics progressive electronic sound collage	glitch # 58 plunderphonics # 85 progressive electronic # 87 sound collage # 91 field recordings # 95
12		2021	Low	HEY WHAT	experimental rock post-industrial ambient pop	glitch pop # 12 ambient pop # 33 experimental rock # 71 post-industrial # 92
81		2021-06-25	Mabe fratti	Será que ahora podremos entendernos	ambient ambient pop art pop avant-folk chamber folk drone electroacoustic	chamber folk # 51 avant-folk # 58
35		2022-01-21	virginia aveline	you wont miss the sun again	ambient drone electroacoustic
4		2022-02-09	Katarina Gryvul	Tysha	avant-folk electroacoustic glitch glitch pop idm sound collage
78		2022-03-04	Leya	Eyeline	avant-folk chamber folk electroacoustic	chamber folk # 48 avant-folk # 56
94		2022-03-11	Jeremiah Chiu	Recordings from the Åland Islands	ambient classical electroacoustic electronic field recordings progressive electronic	progressive electronic # 72 field recordings # 91
98		2022-06-14	Taylor Deupree	Small Winters	ambient drone electroacoustic field recordings glitch minimalism	drone # 45 glitch # 56 minimalism # 72 field recordings # 94
29		2022-09-23	Oval	Ovidono	electroacoustic electronic glitch
63		2022-10-01	Roméo Poirier	Living Room	ambient ambient dub chillout electroacoustic electronic field recordings glitch	field recordings # 63 ambient dub # 77
82		2022-10-14	Mabe fratti	Se ve desde aquí	ambient pop art pop avant-folk electroacoustic	avant-folk # 60
9		2023-02-10	Tongue Depressor	Bones For Time	drone electroacoustic
10		2023-02-24	Kassel Jaeger	Shifted in Dreams	ambient drone electroacoustic electronic
84		2023-04-07	Tim Hecker	No Highs	ambient electroacoustic
6		2023-09-22	Radian	Distorted Rooms	electroacoustic glitch post-rock
43		2023-10-06	Aho Ssan	Rhizomes	dark ambient deconstructed club electroacoustic electronic glitch idm industrial noise spoken word	deconstructed club # 6
38		2023-10-27	Flora Yin-Wong	Cold Reading	ambient electroacoustic electronic field recordings glitch musique concrete sound collage	field recordings # 29 musique concrete # 74
85		2024-03-21	Broadcast	Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age	electroacoustic electronic musique concrete neo-psychedelia psychedelic pop sound collage	sound collage # 75 musique concrete # 97
55		2024-06-28	Mabe fratti	Sentir Que No Sabes	art pop	avant-folk # 16 chamber jazz # 84
37			Mueller/Feldbauer	autorama	lounge ambient california electroacoustic electronic los angeles san francisco	los angeles # 12 san francisco # 65
54			---__--___	The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid	ambient electroacoustic sound collage	sound collage # 21
93			Bird's Eye Batang	Flood Format	ambient electroacoustic electronic glitch idm neo-psychedelia progressive electronic sound collage	glitch # 17 progressive electronic # 71 sound collage # 84
42			Approaching Mountains	Ley	ambient electroacoustic

Related genres

• ambient
• electronic
• drone
• noise
• musique concrete
• dark ambient
• glitch
• soundscape
• electronica
• instrumental