aidan baker is a canadian musician & writer alternately based in toronto & berlin. he performs as a solo artist & w/ the groups nadja + arc. a classically trained multi-instrumentalist, his primary instrument is the electric guitar w/ which he creates music ranging from experimental/drone to ambient post-rock to contemporary classical. he has released numerous albums on labels from around the world & has authored several books of prose/poetry.

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only stories - the kora records (forthcoming)
collected loop studies - install sound (re-issued & new material forthcoming)
noise of silence - essence music (re-issue forthcoming)
white nights/drone fields - beta-lactam ring records (dvd forthcoming)
songs of flowers & skin - beta-lactam ring records (re-issue forthcoming)
liminoid/lifeforms - alien8 recordings
blue figures - basses frequences
colorful disturbances w/ noveller - divorce records
dry - install
gathering blue - equation records
i wish too to be absorbed - important records
fantasma parastasie w/ tim hecker - alien8 recordings
letters - basses frequences
green & cold - beta-lactam ring records
I fall into you - basses frequences
book of nods - beta-lactam ring records
fragile movements in slow motion - universal tongue
suchness #1 - gears of sand *
scalpel - the kora records
exoskeleton heart - crucial bliss
I will always & forever hold you in my heart & mind - small doses/basses frequences
thoughtspan - blackest rainbow records
broken & remade - volubilus records
dance of lonely molecules - blade records *
030706 - city of glass *
peau sensible - zenapolae
24.2.24.4. - dark winter
within the final circle - mirakel musik
skein of veins - phoniq *
oneiromancer - die stadt musik
the sea swells a bit... - small voices
dog fox gone to ground - afe records *
pendulum - gears of sand
periodic - crucial bliss *
traumerei - evelyn records
still my beating heart neats - pertin-nce
candescence - suggestion records *
figures - volubilis records
tense surfaces - panospria
ichneumon - tibprod
field of drones - arcolepsy records *
same river twice - drone records *
the taste of summer on your skin - taalem records
blauserk - locus of assemblage *
at the base of the mind is coiled a serpent - le cri de la harpe *
butterfly bones - between existence *
an intricate course of deception - angle records *
ice against my skin - arret arret *
antithesis - petite sono *
threnody (one) - nulll records
metamorphose - s'agita recordings *
black flowers blossom - sonic syrup *
cicatrice - dreamland recordings *
concretion - dta records *
dreammares - mechanoise *
at the fountain of thirst - mystery sea *
eye of day - foriegn lands *
pretending to be fearless - flesh made word records *
element - arcolepsy Records *

collaborations

live 14-11-08 - w/ brandon valdivia - universal tongue
a bout de souffle - w/ jakob thiesen - waterscape
an open letter to franz kafka - w/ the beta cloud - laughing bride media
nagual - w/ todd merrell & patrick jordan - archive records
second week of the second month - w/ ben fleury-steiner - kikapu
untitled - w/ datashock - hlava/meudiademorte *
orange - w/ this quiet army - this quiet army records *
approaching a black hole w/ DD6 - fargone records *
remixes - arcolepsy records
untitled - w/ john duncan, z'ev, & fear falls burning - die stadt musik
at home with... - w/ ultra milkmaids - infraction records
undercurrents - w/ matt borghi - zenapolae records
fields 1 - w/ dronaement & andrea marutti - fieldmuzick
scouring thin bones - w/ straiph - noiseusse records *
corpus callosum - w/ gydja - kolorform records *
lLoop studies remixed - w/ cymbl - arcolepsy records *
terza rima - w/ thomas baker & alan Bbloor - public eyesore *
rural - w/ the infant cycle - blade records *

compilations

my own wolf: a new approach - aspherical asphyxia productions
once we all walk through solid objects - tone float records
desert space - tosom records
the threshold of silence - deep listenings
cities beneath the sea - under see records
cryosphere - glacial movements
keeping the neighbours up all night - pertin_nce
recycled - electrosound records
10 years of afe - afe records
sans titre 2001-2004 - taalem records
ping ambience 3 - String Things - the ambient ping
lágrimas de miedo Nş12 - Zénon - fear drop
catzenjammer - tibprod
anotherGIZYA - liquid sphere
t01 - taucher
sonic visions of middle-earth - foreshadow productions
hidden landscape - dreamland recordings
drone download project - dark duck records
winter wishes - silber records
ping ambience two - the ambient ping
saturation bombing 2 - tik recordings
resurrection of primal sonsciousness - ava/es1 resetrecords
function - function magazine
holiday masterpieces - blod records
aem: eis v2 - kolorform records
paradox room - sandpiper records
from the nulll void - nulll records
tensile - labile music
someplace remixes - famefame
stars from worthy skies - worthy records

myspace
last.fm page
liminoid/lifeforms
free music archive
internet archive
live in moscow 26/02/09
fantasma parastasie (w/ tim hecker)
live in aarhus 24/04/2008
live nyc 02/03/07
24.2.24.4.
peau sensible
live at mutek (w/ kolumkilli)
self-plunderphonics
v/a recycled
afe records

bibliography

passing thru - beta-lactam ring records (forthcoming)
shape of snakes - coldsnap bindery (forthcoming)
place name - wingate press (out of print)
transport - clairbury press (out of print)
wound culture - unbound books (out of print)
fingerspelling - penumbra press
the adventures of me & you - eraserhead press (out of print)

miscellaneous writings

3 poems in It's Still Winter #5.2
3 poems in It's Still Winter #5.1
'their names all begin with k' in slinkster
'suck up your joy' in - the vestal review
'in memoriam: john newlove' in bywords
'naming' in stirring
'drowned poet' in the columbia review
'freak show, geek love' in plum ruby review
'starshine' + 'the wind in the trees' in suspect thoughts
an excerpt from novel ms 'loss leader' in word riot an excerpt from novel ms 'eremia' in turtleneck