An Moku

Foto by Danique Wiesli

CV

Dominik Grenzler is a sound artist, conceptual producer and former bass player with a penchant for experimental and ambient soundscapes. His artist name An Moku refers to the Japanese word anmoku, meaning “tacit, unsaid, implicit”, and suggests ideas that cannot be fully put into words yet are subconsciously understood. In this spirit, his abstract, cinematic music leaves space for imagination and interpretation. Reduction and repetition, wrapped in a miasma of organic and manipulated sounds, are central to his work. His compositions blur the lines between ambient, drone, noise and experimental electronic music, informed by a love of musique concrète, hauntology and clicks ’n cuts.

Dominik lives and works in Zurich, where he co-owns Café Miyuko, an artisan cake and tea café open since 2010. He is the founder and curator of the label EndTitles and the associated Kitchen.Lab concert series. He has co-developed several audio plugins with companies such as Puremagnetik and Artists in DSP and works as an audio and technical consultant for plugin development. Beyond sound, he works as an experimental photographer focusing on analogue double exposures and is currently developing his literary debut.

Born in Gdańsk in 1977 and raised on 80s synth pop and early 90s guitar music, he played electric bass in several bands in Germany’s Ruhr area before leaving his studies in literature and philosophy to focus on music. As a touring bassist he appeared as an opening act for artists such as Whitney Houston, Joe Cocker and Marla Glen and later worked in the music and fashion industries. After a longer break from making music, travels, encounters and further training led him to explore sound in a less commercial, more exploratory way. This became the starting point for his work as An Moku. One of his early larger projects was How to Catch STILLE? from 2013, a Sonos Switzerland collaboration for the hearing-impaired involving more than 30 musicians.

His sound works are available on Bandcamp, Ko-fi and Spotify.

Works & Live

2026 – Coming next: «Industrial Silence» @DIO DRONE (IT)
2026 – Coming next: «Klang der Vergänglichkeit» Experimental Audio Installation (Phase 2)@ TBA
2026 – «On Reduction in Music and Studio» A Curated Series of Interviews by An Moku involving 40+ international artists (postponed from 2024 to 2026)
2026 – Coming next: «Palimpsest Tenna. Ebenen.» Analogue photographs by Dominik Grenzler. Permanent exhibition @Hotel Alpenblick, Tenna (Safiental)

2025 – «Waves & II» Preset Collection for Valhalla Supermassive
2025 – «Euclyd Delay» Consulting & Artist Presets (Collab with Artists in DSP)
2025 – «October Rust» Sound Design Preset Collection for Soundtoys
2025 – «MYON: Somewhere Else Reverb» Consulting & Artist Presets (Collab with Artists in DSP)
2025 – «Industrial Silence [This Is Not a Site, Noise (Not) Included]» Experimental 4-Channel Audio Installation, outdoors @Miyuko, Zürich
2025 – «Klang der Vergänglichkeit» Experimental Audio Installation (Phase 1), Wipkingen, Zürich

2024 – «Hertenstein – Audiowalk mit Klang und Lyrik» Text, Script, Composition, Editing & Direction (Collaboration with Luzern Tourismus & HSLU Hochschule Luzern)
2024 – «Darker 4 – Memoria» Experimental Sound Design Preset Collection for Valhalla Delay, Supermassive & VintageVerb
2024 – «Zwischen Stille und Klang» Experimental Audio Installation @Miyuko/Junges Literaturlabor/VHS, Bärengasse 20-22, Zürich
2024 – Artist Residency @Tenna, Safiental
2024 – Live @Tenna, Safiental (An Moku & Yes, it’s Ananias)
2024 – «Etappe – Geometric Delay Console» Plugin (Collaboration with Puremagnetik)
2024 – «Warum es sich lohnt auf die Welt zu kommen» Radio play, Radio SRF2 Kultur (Collaboration with Martin Engler/Junges Literaturlabor)
2024 – «Darker Trilogy» Valhalla Delay Experimental Sound Design Preset Collection

2023 – «Stages – Dual Golden Ratio Delay» Plugin (Collaboration with Puremagnetik)
2023 – «Shapes (for a Name) – Eine Annäherung an die Musik des Bauhaus» Essay
2023 – «Shapes (for a Name)» @Puremagnetik [USA]
2023 – Live @Badenfahrt Festival (An Moku & Yes, it’s Ananias)
2023 – «Raum im Raum» (Collaboration with Stefan Schmidt) @Karlrecords [GER]
2023 – «The coughing of fleas around midnight» (Backstage Subscription Exclusively)
2023 – Live @Risa Hutwerkstatt, Hägglingen (An Moku & Yes, it’s Ananias)
2023 – Live @FriSon, Fribourg
2023 – Live @Kulturhaus Helferei, Zürich (Strom am Mittag)
2023 – Live @Coin Coin, Zürich (An Moku & Yes, it’s Ananias)
2023 – «Fluxus Verve» (Collaboration with Yes, it’s Ananias) [CH]
2023 – «Schönheit der Bewegung» Single Release (Collaboration with Yes, it’s Ananias) [CH]
2023 – Live @Buffet Nord, Bern (An Moku & Yes, it’s Ananias, Installation by Brigitte Lustenberger) – TONTON No.7
2023 – «Salz & Honig» Single Release (Collaboration with Yes, it’s Ananias) [CH]
2022 – Live @Umbo, Zürich (An Moku & Yes, it’s Ananias)
2022 – «ZwischenRaum» (Collaboration with Stefan Schmidt) @Karlrecords [GER]
2022 – «Fromaroom Sessions: Exploring discontinued and obsolete reverb units»
2022 – «Sfaira» (Collaboration with Tilman Ehrhorn aka Werken) @EndTitles [CH]
2021 – «YŌKAI» Xmas Mixtape IX (Contribution) @DioDrone [IT]
2021 – «Microdemystification» (Collaboration with Blakmoth) @DioDrone [IT]
2021 – «Dingeklang Vol.2 – Sound pack of other fancy obsolete electro acoustic devices»
2021 – «MNEMOSYNE #25» Podcast
2021 – «Dingeklang Vol.1 – Sound pack of obsolete electro acoustic devices»
2021 – MICROPOLIS a photo exhibition by Claudio Colotti, Das Provisorium, Zürich
2021 – «Raum» (Collaboration with Stefan Schmidt) @Karlrecords [GER]
2021 – «Fragment – Dual Fluctuation Looper Device» Plugin (Collaboration with Puremagnetik)
2021 – «Less» @Puremagnetik [USA]
2021 – «Safety in Solitude» Sessions (Backstage Subscription Exclusively)
2020 – «Where We Meet» (Collaboration with Stijn Hüwels) @Slowcraft Records [UK]
2020 – «Maya Deren» (Collaboration with Joel Gilardini) @bullflat 3.8, [Japan]
2020 – «Co-Being», «Phimola» (Backstage Subscription Exclusively)
2020 – Bandcamp Subscription: Backstage
2020 – «Of Mirrors» (Collaboration with Virlyn) @Audiobulb Records [UK] & EndTitles [Switzerland]
2020 – «Her Dark Materials» EP @EndTitles
2019 – Live @10th IOIC Stummfilm-Festival, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich
2019 – EndTitles.Kitchen.Lab #2-4 (Universalfilter, Steinbrüchel, Stan Pete, Joel Gilardini, Feyz & Snoopy over the Hills), Kulturfolger, Zürich
2019 – «Live in Cairo 2018» @EndTitles [Switzerland]
2018 – EndTitles.Kitchen.Lab #1 (Joel Gilardini & Chihei Hatakeyama)
2018 – Artist Residency @Pro Helvetia Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
2018 – Live in Cairo, Egypt (Mapping Possibilities VI, in Cooperation with Pro Helvetia Cairo)
2018 – Mapping Possibilities VI Live-Show Preparation in Reykjavik, Iceland
Break for several years.

Press

NEOBLOG Swiss Contemporary Music: An Moku – Klangkünstler und Soundtüflter (GER)

Sunrise Starzone: Tape it or leave it: Die Verkaufszahlen von Musikkassetten steigen an (GER)

15 Questions: About the 70s as Inspiration, Fluxus and the return of Disco in 2050 (ENG)

15 Questions: About Sonic Time Travel and playing for the Deaf (ENG)

Sodapop Magazine: An Moku – Rundum Zürich… (IT)

An Moku – Zwischen den Zeilen. Ein Interview. (GER)

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«…Deep, tactile sound design.» – Taylor Deupree

«Die Klangräume stammen vom Soundarchitekten Dominik Grenzler, der unter dem Namen An Moku aus Stille, Ton und Geräusch spannungsvolle, hochkomplexe, filmische Klangwelten komponiert.»
– SRF2 Kultur

«…Doch stets interagieren die Dinge, wirken aufeinander und im Sinne einer neuralen Rückkopplung auch miteinander. Klingt verschwurbelt, ist aber ganz einfach – nämlich kontemplative KlangKunst vom Feinsten. 5 von 5.» – Westzeit Magazin

«…This is in the zone between drone electronics and abstract electroacoustic music, further afield than most ambient music, especially in its unpredictability. …As there’s a lot that’s original and much that’s surprising going on in this music, and as such no two tracks are quite alike.» – Audion, Issue No. 69

«…Tre lati di un personaggio che sicuramente merita attenzione e che sembra avere parecchie frecce nel suo arco, sia come musicista che come produttore artistico.» – Sodapop Magazine

«Shapes (for a Name) is a testament to Bauhaus values, how wielding them can create lovely, immersive, evocative music, an avant-garde for everyone.» – George Grella