Chris Sigdell is an experimental electronic musician. He developed a soft spot for early industrial textures and pioneering ambient soundscapes while cutting his teeth in cult industrial band NÍÐ. The sound of B°TONG feels a lot like an agonizingly slow crawl through a dark tunnel where the dim light at the other end never gets closer...

  B°TONG is Chris Sigdell, former member of German experimental industrial group NÍÐ (1995 - 2005). With B°TONG he reaches for the meditative regions of experimental sound and establishes himself as a zen 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 inner space.

In performance Chris uses microphones, metal plates, and various non-musical gadgets. The sounds generated are put through various effect-pedals, giving him that trademark sound which has earned him the nick-name “drone-lord” by Aquarius Records.

As of  “A Fleeting Moment Of Superabundance” he has found his very own genre - zenile soundscapes, which he perfected with the releases of {Mass} and Zenihilist - works that cross into post-rock and ambient pop.

  B°TONG has played many renown experimental festivals: Audio Art Festival (PL), Les Digitales (CH), Fab_In (PL), Norberg Festivalen (S), Temple Of Silence (PL), Kildemose Festivalen (DK), Lab30 (D) and Wroclaw Industrial Festival (PL) to only name a few. He mostly plays in Europe but has also ventured to North America (three times), Russia and Japan. He has shared stages with artists like Bohren und der Club of Gore, Dave Phillips, Esplendor Geometrico, Frontline Assembly, Jozef Van Wissem, Puce Mary, Ramleh, Robert Rich, Thomas Köhner, Zbigniew Karkowski.

 Apart from doing B°TONG Chris collaborates with other musicians. He is or has been part of TONGDISKLAKTIKA (feat. Benny Braaten & Per Åhlund), the trio of ÅHLUND/GAUDE/SIGDELL, the indsutrial super group THEE SECRETE SOCIETY (feat. Jürgen Eberhard, Helge S. Moune & Melvin Neumann) and others. His latest collaboration project is Bu.d.d.A. (AKA Bund des dritten Auges) - an ambient drone duo together with Sascha Stadlmeier (Emerge, Doc Wör Mirran).

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  He has also contributed to installations (“Polarkreis” & “95°“ by artists Brigitte Gierlich & Camilla Schuler) and video-projects (“Images” by Ulrich Fischer). His video-clips have been shown at the 2007 Miami Art Fair as part of the Urban Nomad film-festival, and in Beijing. His videos are made in collaboration with video artist Silvia Bergmann.



In 2017, Chris composed the music to „Vertikal“ - a theatre performance by circus-artist Finn Jagd Andersen (Zirkus Gonzo).
, which they perform live together. In 2018 Chris was seen on national televison in the well-known Swiss series "Der Bestatter". In the episode "Spiel Mit Dem Feuer" he is the guitarist in a fictional band perfroming one of his songs...

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  B°TONG releases can be found on Zoharum, Krater Recordings, Force Majeure, Oxidation, Reverse Alignment and Silken Tofu.