PBK (real name: Phillip B. Klingler) is a composer that works in the genres of Noise, Drone and/or Ambient music.
[1] His work first became known through the homemade independent cassette culture scene of the 1980s, though later releases have also been in compact disc and LP format.
In the years 1992-1996, PBK lived in Puerto Rico[1] where he began experimenting with record turntables and extreme use of MIDI sequencer programming creating an early form of glitch best exemplified by the cassette album, Listening To The World Vibrate.
A partial list would include such musicians as Asmus Tietchens, Aube, Jarboe (of Swans), Jim O'Rourke, Minóy, Vidna Obmana and Wolf Eyes.
Over the course of nearly thirty years, PBK has had over 75 full-length albums released internationally, establishing a complex body of work that reveals a unique approach to the Noise music aesthetic.
Here, PBK, who's already become widely known for his prolific and quality projects, works with other well-known electronic artists such as AMK (and thus there's lots of turntable experimentation), Hands To, Deaf Lions and two pieces with Jarboe.
Rhythm, melody, harmony, even dissonance achieve new meanings here; though those musical absolutes are absent, PBK somehow creates new definitions for them himself.
Pieces on Under My Breath were recorded with people like Akifumi Nakajima (Aube), Christian Renou (Brume), Dale Lloyd, John Wiggins, Nigel Ayers, Slavek Kwi (Artificial Memory Trace), Tore Boe and Wolf Eyes.
In 2014 Punctum Books, in collaboration with PBK and Joseph Nechvatal, released some of the best posthumous recorded material on CD and cassette, entitled simply Minóy.