INTRODUCTIONS…

Phon Small Badge LogoPhon/AntiPhon is the project of a Bristol UK-based composer Mat Elkington, based around electronica, samples, and bass/electric guitar.
It sets out to explore both darkly ambient minimalist themes and fuller, more verdant sonic landscapes alongside more “conventional” instrumental experimentation via a constantly shifting palette of sounds and instruments.

Phon/AntiPhon’s work seeks to inhabit the same space as avant-garde artists like Main & Robert Hampson, Scanner, Fennesz and Thomas Koner; additionally shades of Scorn, Jesu and some Post-Rock and Shoegaze bands can be traced within it’s compositions.
Primarily though, what it attempts to be most of all, is itself and of itself. The project strives to create sound that exists and has a dynamism independent of the listener, such that the listener experiences it but does not “begin” or “end” it.

Phon/AntiPhon commenced in mid-2010 following Mat’s departure from the band Dancing For Architecture. Securing a contract with Wagmore Records it released it’s debut EP “Ravens” on that label on the 01.08.2010.

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The band is composed of Phon/AntiPhon – the physical manifestation of the hive-mind and possessor of the necessary end-effectors to aid in the production of sound and occasionally vision, and the machines – occuring in both the physical and virtual realms the machines are responsible for the realisation of the conceptual forms suggested to them by the previously mentioned organic.

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In addition to this blog Phon/AntiPhon can also be found in some other locations by clicking on one of the links on the right-hand side of this page.

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