Andrew Pekler is a Berlin-based musician and sound artist renowned for his innovative compositions that blend recontextualized source materials with live instrumentation and electronic processing. Born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in 1973, he immigrated to the United States before settling in Germany in the mid-1990s. Pekler first gained international recognition in the late 1990s with his abstract downtempo project, Sad Rockets, and as a member of the experimental electro-pop group Bergheim 34. His solo works, including "Station to Station" (2002) and "Sentimental Favourites" (2011), showcase a unique fusion of dub, post-rock, minimal techno, jazz, and elements of easy listening and exotica. Pekler has also collaborated with artists like Jan Jelinek and Hanno Leichtmann in the improvisational trio Groupshow. His recent project, "Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas," developed with cultural anthropologist Kiwi Stefanie Menrath, is an interactive online map exploring the sounds and histories of islands that have disappeared from nautical charts. ([2k24.niansa.zone](https://2k24.niansa.zone/andrew-pekler?utm_source=openai))