[1] According to RVNG, "K." is "a nod to Kafka’s doomed pariah Josef K (from The Trial and The Castle).
[2] Leimer was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and his family moved to Chicago in his childhood.
In 1967 the family moved again to Seattle, where he began making experimental music using inexpensive instruments and magnetic tape manipulation.
[1] He released some material on Robert Carlberg's Anode Productions before starting the label Palace of Lights with his spouse Dorothy Cross in 1979.
After 1983 he ceased producing music for many years, returning in 2002 to reissue old work and release new material.