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Microsound refers to electronic music focused on manipulating extremely small sonic particles, often at the threshold of perception—clicks, glitches, grain-like textures, and ultra-brief sounds. This approach emerged from experimental digital audio practices in the 1990s, treating sound itself as raw material to be examined and reconstructed at microscopic time scales. The aesthetic emphasizes precision, minimalism, and the exploration of what happens in the tiny spaces between conventional musical notes.
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1976 | Alvin Lucier | Bird And Person Dyning |
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1995 | Various Artists | Diagram |
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1995-02 | Ryoji Ikeda | 1000 Fragments |
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| 85 | 1997-06 | Ø | Tulkinta |
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1998 | Souvlaki | La sociedad del espectáculo |
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1998 | Cacao | Tropisms |
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1998 | 8m2 Stereo | Em:t 1197 |
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| 86 | 1998-07 | Ryoji Ikeda | 0°C |
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1998-10 | Ryoji Ikeda | Time And Space |
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2000-03 | Rensek | Rensek EP |
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| 91 | 2001-01-22 | Ryoji Ikeda | Matrix |
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| 27 | 2001-10-01 | The Cherry Blues Project | Ultra Rare Tracks |
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| 77 |
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2002-04-29 | Janek Schaefer | Pulled Under |
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| 78 | 2003 | Girnų Giesmės | Procesai |
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2004 | Vitor Joaquim | A Rose is A Rose |
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2004-03 | AGF | Language Is the Most |
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2004-04-02 | mc iedh | hug my gas ep |
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2004-05-04 | Frank Bretschneider | Looping I - VI (And Other Assorted Love Songs) | ||
| 88 | 2004-06-20 | Taylor Deupree & Christopher Willits | Mujo |
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2004-08-16 | Paranomia | Le requiem pour les refrigerat | ||
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2004-09-01 | Nim | Editorial ep |
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| 95 | 2005 | Ryoji Ikeda | Dataplex |
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2005 | Will Montgomery | Water Blinks |
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2005-03-01 | Indu Mezu | noisiki |
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2005-03-30 | Curtis Roads | Point Line Cloud |
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| 82 | 2005-06-01 | Nacht Plank | Septs Vents |
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2005-07-31 | Coeval | [mn005] distante |
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| 7 | 2005-10-13 | Tony | Itinerance |
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2005-10-21 | Darren McClure | Zonal Sounds |
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| 80 | 2006-02-07 | Sébastien Roux | Songs |
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2006-05-24 | Asher | Directions |
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2006-06 | Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaefer | Hidden Name |
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2007-05-16 | Zainetica | A Fixed Frame, Ep. |
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2007-10-01 | Wendt | montage |
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2007-12 | Luigi Archetti | Fragments on Speed, Slowless and Tedium |
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2008 | Alvaro | Untitled Album |
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2008-01-26 | Skerror | The Unknown Forces |
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2008-01-28 | Skerror | Games We'll Play |
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2008-01-28 | Skerror | Bots and Fans |
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2008-02-01 | Skerror | Power Grid |
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2008-02-04 | Skerror | Venture Fantastique |
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2008-02-07 | Skerror | Submersion |
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2008-02-10 | Skerror | Slime Quanta |
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2008-02-12 | Skerror | Junk Running |
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2008-02-14 | Skerror | Mahahakala |
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2008-02-15 | Skerror | Graviton Jungle |
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| 20 | 2008-02 | Giorgos Stefanou | Internal Sonic Pathway |
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| 9 | 2009 | The Cherry Blues Project | Electronic Sounds Live |
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2009-01-04 | Skerror | Dreampunk |
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2009-01-05 | Skerror | Static Approach |
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2009-01-06 | Skerror | Corrapture |
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2009-01-12 | Skerror | Cephalotropolis |
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2009-01-14 | Skerror | Alloy Mines |
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2009-01-16 | Skerror | Ferrol |
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2009-01-21 | Skerror | Mod Doc |
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2009-01-23 | Skerror | Shee |
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2009-05-07 | Jgrzinich | time's arrow landing |
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2009-10-10 | Obsil | Distances |
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2009-10-27 | Marc Broude | Rites of Zen |
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2009-11-16 | The Cherry Blues Project | Dedicado a JS (Vol. 1) |
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2010-06-30 | Kuupuu | Spring High Spiritual Spree Spray Ray |
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2010-08-09 | Jo Thomas | Alpha Live at the Alibi |
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2010-08-22 | Canoply Games | Phantoms |
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2010-11-13 | Tsone | [at035] a sea beyond reckoning |
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2011-07-01 | Derek Piotr | AGORA |
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2011-12-05 | Derek Piotr | AGORA Regathered |
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2012-02-05 | Superlauncher | Music for Films |
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2012-05-25 | Porya Hatami | Unstable |
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2012-12-18 | Rui P. Andrade | Vessels |
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2013-04-17 | Nils Quak | Und unsere Häuser sind Särge |
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2013-08-19 | Aurastore | Untapped Horizons |
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2013-10-19 | organ of qwerty | organ of qwerty |
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2014-04-28 | Fennesz | Bécs |
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2015-09-01 | Klimek | Pop Ambient 2006 |
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2016-01-31 | EUS | Reviraje |
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2016-06-24 | Kim Cascone | Reaching Dark Stations |
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2017-07-01 | Haarvöl | Bombinate |
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2018-01-15 | Masayuki Imanishi | Worn Tape |
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2018-03-16 | Alva Noto | Unieqav |
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2018-08-31 | Andreas Lutz | Binary Supremacy |
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2019-08-23 | Powerless Electronics | All Good Things Come In Threes |
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2020-01-10 | Fani Konstantinidou | Winter Trilogy / The Big Fall |
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2020-11-06 | Richard Chartier | Continue |
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2021-01-17 | among us trap remix | among us trap remix |
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2021-02-05 | Hosoo | Mist |
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2021-03-12 | Ryoji Ikeda | Ryoji Ikeda EP |
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2021-03 | Ryoji Ikeda | Music For Installations Vol.1 |
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2021-10-25 | Ryoji Ikeda | superposition |
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2022-03-18 | zeroglab | ZEROGLAB - The Fall Of Casablanca |
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2022-04-22 | Ryoji Ikeda | music for installations vol.2 |
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2022-09-23 | 7038634357 | Electric |
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| 3 | diecidicembre | diecidicembre |
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| 42 | SFIAS | SFIAS vs Betty Boop pt 2 |
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| 47 | SFIAS | SFIAS vs The Anchorites |
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| 75 | ADSD | x |
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| 83 | ADSD | FEAROFTHEVOID |
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| 17 | Begt | The Shortest Album |
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| 30 | 8m2stereo | Calling All Fiends compilation |
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| 66 | akaJazy | Cladonia |
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| 97 | .cutspace | the angels floss their teeth with my bones |
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