B°TONG is Chris Sigdell, former member of the German experimental industrial group NID (1995 - 2005).

Chris Sigdell reaches for the nether regions of experimental electronic sound and has established himself as an acknowledged and known professional soundscape artist. His music is a choice of dark, brooding layers of sound, high-pitched tones and weird electronic sounds that give birth to images of darkness and tranquillity, the solitude of an icy polar night or the equivalent of an underwater journey into a bottomless pit. To create these soundscapes, he uses found samples and self-made recordings and processes these on the computer together with recordings of his own voice and other vocal samples. There are no traditional instruments involved. In a live-situation Chris Sigdell relies on playing metal-sheets, electric toys and various kitchen utensils. The sounds thus generated are put through various effect-pedals giving him that trademark sound.

B°TONG has played over 200 concerts in Europe, Russia, Canada and the U.S.A. and has been sharing stages with artists such as: Aun, Batur Sönmez, Column One, Dave Phillips, Frontline Assembly, Michael Northam, Origami Galaktika, Sudden Infant, The (Law) Rah Collective, To Live And Shave In LA, Troum, Zbigniew Karkowski, etc.

B°TONG has appeared at experimental festivals such as: Sinus-Series (Basel 2006), Ausklang (Hamburg 2006), Shift (Basel 2007 & 2008), Lab 30 (Augsburg 2009) , Støy På Landet (Rognes 2010), Unser Industrie V (Leipzig 2011), Zeit Für Lärm 5 (Osnabrück 2012) and Kildemose Festivalen (Refsvindinge 2012).

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