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Thomas Ankersmit is a musician based in Berlin and Amsterdam. For the past twenty years, he’s focussed on the Serge Modular synthesizer, both live and in the studio. From 2003 to 2023 he toured and collaborated intensively with New York minimalist Phill Niblock (1933-2024). He’s also performed and recorded with artists like Valerio Tricoli, Kevin Drumm, Jerome Noetinger and Thomas Lehn.
His music is released on the Shelter Press, PAN and Touch labels, and combines intricate sonic detail and raw electric power, with a very physical and spatial experience of sound. Acoustic phenomena such as infrasound and otoacoustic emissions (sounds emanating from inside the head, generated by the ears themselves) play an important role in his work, as does a deliberate, creative misuse of the equipment.
Acutely visceral, brilliantly dynamic electroacoustic music … Play this loud and it starts to feel like a crack opening in reality. – The Quietus
Some of the most challenging, absorbing, and masterfully executed sound art that I have ever heard. – Brainwashed
Gorgeous and visceral … Supernovas of sound. – The Wire
Thomas’s concert was spectacular, among the very best things I’ve ever heard done on a Serge synth. Best thing was, I didn’t hear a single bleep or bloop, or filter sweep, or driving sequencer beat. In fact, I heard nothing at all that I could tell was made using one of my synthesizers. That’s genius. – Serge Tcherepnin, inventor of the Serge Modular
