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Kim Cascone is one of the main representative digital American artists of the glitch aesthetic and the use of software like Max/MSP.

Born in Albion, Michigan 1955, Kim Cascone studied at the Berklee College of Music in the early 1970’s, continuing his electronics studies in 1976 with Dana McCurdy at the New York City’s New School. In 1980, he moved to San Francisco where he worked with film director David Lynch as Assistant Music Editor on both Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart shows.

In 1986, Kim Cascone founded Silent Records, one of the first electronic music independent labels born in the U.S., where he released some of his personal projects, including Heavenly Music Corporation, PGR, Thessalonians, and Spiced Barons. Kim Cascone sold the company 10 years later to start a career as a sound designer, working for Thomas Dolby’s company Headspace as a sound designer and composer. He later began working for Staccato Systems as the Director of Content where he worked in the design of new sounds for games using algorithmic synthesis.

Since 1980, Kim Cascone has released more than 15 albums of electronic music and designed several sound insatallations, including Dust Theories, mixing randomly selected soundfiles from a sample library previously created.

Kim Cascone is also co-founder of the Microsound organization for the discussion of digital and post-digital music, and has also worked with artists such as Carlsten Nicolai, David Toop, Peter Rehberg, Scanner, Oval, Bochum Welt, Keith Rowe, and Doug Aitken.