Gen Ken Montgomery
Ken Montgomery is an electronics explorer who once ran a tiny record store in the East Village called Generator, hence the name Gen Ken. In 1989, Montgomery founded Generator, the first sound art gallery in New York City (1989-1992). He continues to produce concerts and recordings of his work and other sound artists.
Ken Montgomery is an electronics explorer who once ran a tiny record store in the East Village called Generator, hence the name Gen Ken. In 1989, Montgomery founded Generator, the first sound art gallery in New York City (1989-1992). He continues to produce concerts and recordings of his work and other sound artists.
Cas-Con II
As part of our series "Experimental Electronic Underground GDR", we are very pleased to be able to make a very special recording available again. On the evening of 3.9.1986, the privately announced and illegal concert took place in the Erlöserkirche …
Endogeny
"I am not entirely sure, but I don't think I reviewed 'Endogeny' when it first came out on Direction Music in 1990. Hearing the music I am not even sure I heard it, even when being in contact with the label at that time. I surely heard Gen Ken Montgo…
Postcards
Gen Ken Montgomery, a New York-based Visual Artist and Sound Composer is absolutely genuine; he has no training in traditional music or art. He was never a follower of any direction or school. Instead he founded his own school of off-beat DIY…
Birds + Machines
Co-founder of Pogus with Al Margolis, Gen Ken Montgomery is often unfairly disregarded when assessing the history of radical music in the last half-century. This collection – another clarification of a unendingly probing creativity – examines works f…
Pondfloorsample
These two discs represent some of Gen Ken Montgomery's sound art and compositional work from 1981-2001. Pondfloorsample is a collection of sonic explorations utilizing common devices meant to hold something other than sound. As with much of his sound…