K-Space

The Profile

K-Space is an international trio featuring Tim Hodgkinson, Ken Hyder, and Tuvan musician Gendos Chamzyryn, fusing Siberian shamanic aesthetics with improvisation and digital processes. Their 2008 release Infinity is a computer-only, algorithmic CD-ROM created with Andy Wilson.

Trio: Tim Hodgkinson (ex-Henry Cow), Ken Hyder, Gendos Chamzyryn (Tuva); artistic focus on shamanic/Siberian approaches to sound and time; works include Going Up, Infinity, Bear Bones, and Black Sky; Infinity (2008) employs software algorithms by Andy Wilson to generate a unique playback on each listen.

K-Space unites the shamanic aesthetics of Siberia with free improvisation and digital processes. The review focuses on Infinity (2008), a computer-only, algorithm-driven CD-ROM devised with Andy Wilson that sounds different on each play. It highlights the trio’s roots in Hodgkinson and Hyder’s Siberian explorations and their collaboration with Tuvan musician Gendos Chamzyryn.