Synapscape is a German

Germany

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 recording duo specializing in the creation of dark noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

, teknoid, and power electronics. It is a long-time act of Germany’s industrial music

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 record label, Ant-Zen

Ant-Zen

Ant-Zen Audio and Visual Arts is a German independent record label founded in 1994 by Stefan Alt , who serves as the art director. Visual arts from Ant-Zen are typically bleak but astonishing landscapes, or microscopic studies of what is often overlooked...

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Members / History

Synapscape was founded in 1994 by Philipp Münch (b. 1968) and Tim Kniep, who have been its only members. Münch’s musical history includes his formation of The Rorschach Garden in 1988, and in 1989 he was a founding member of the industrial band Ars Moriendi

Ars moriendi

The Ars moriendi are two related Latin texts dating from about 1415 and 1450 which offer advice on the protocols and procedures of a good death, explaining how to "die well" according to Christian precepts of the late Middle Ages...

. This project’s demise in 1994 saw in turn Münch’s collaboration with Kniep of Blendwerk, and the birth of Synapscape.

Both members of Synapscape also record in the project Monokrom. Münch also has his own project Pmuench, is a member of the collaboration Templegarden’s, and still records under the name The Rorschach Garden.

Discography

• Synapscape, 1995, CD
• Helix, 1996, 7”
• Rage, 1997, CD
• Remix Item, 1998, 10” (with Imminent
  Imminent (band)
  Imminent is a Belgian musical project formerly, and still commonly known as Imminent Starvation. It is a staple act of Germany’s industrial and power noise record label, Ant-Zen. -Members / History:...
  
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• So What, 1999, 2CD
• Screenwalking, 2000, CD / LP (with Imminent)
• Positive Pop, 2001, CD
• Positive Pop, 2001, Boxset (incl. three 10” bonus vinyls)
• Raw, 2002, CD
• Hands On Centrozoon, 2003, CD
• The Incredible Three, 2004, 7” (with Imminent)
• The Revenge of the Incredible Three, 2005, 7” (with Imminent)
• The Return of the Incredible Three, 2005, 7" (with Imminent)
• Act!, 2005, CD
• Scenes from a Galton's Walk, 2006, CD (split with Asche
  Asche (band)
  Asche is a German musical project, one which encompasses the spectrum of noise, power electronics, and droning ambient. It is a staple act of Germany’s industrial and power noise record label, Ant-Zen.-Members / History:...
  
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• Now, 2007, CD
• archive.one, 2008, mp3
• archive.two, 2008, mp3
• Again, 2009, CD
• Traits, 2011, CD