Atte Elias Kantonen is a Helsinki, Finland–based composer, sound artist, and sound designer working in the fields of experimental music and performing arts. In his work, Kantonen explores the potential of elastic synthesis and extremely processed sound as vessels for abstract, phantasmagorical storytelling.
Inspired by the many layers and dichotomies that sonic worldbuilding can contain—material, chronological, sensorial, notional, imaginal, and more—he creates compositions in which the serene and the discordant continually fold in on themselves, revealing a sliver of the other.
Kantonen has released music on labels including mappa (SK), SODA GONG (US), Superpang (IT), and OOH-Sounds (IT), and his multichannel compositions have been presented at festivals such as Akousma (CA) and Sonic Acts (NE).