Sound artist  ·  Producer  ·  DJ

Telling stories through sound — from club floors to cinema screens.

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Sound is the only language that found me.

Born in Switzerland. Drawn to Australia. Forged in Bristol. Now rooted in New Zealand. The journey was never linear — two abandoned university degrees, a year of work to fund a one-way ticket, a pandemic as backdrop to a fresh start. Every detour became part of the sound.

As PANØU, the work spans electronic music production, live performance, music for film, and sound design. The thread running through all of it is the same instinct that started everything: a laptop, a pair of headphones, and an infinite curiosity about what sound can do to a room — and to a person.

8+
Years producing
3
Continents
BA
Hons, Bristol

Switzerland

A laptop. Headphones. A discovery.

At 19, in a university dorm, everything changed. The infinite possibilities of electronic music production opened a door that could never be closed again.

2016
2019

Sydney, Australia

Liveschool. Flume. The turning point.

After a year of work to fund the move, an intensive course at Ableton Liveschool — taught alongside Nina Jirachi, Royalston and Flume — confirmed the path. A DJ residency at Surfers Paradise Gold Coast followed.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Three years. A degree. A craft refined.

BA (Hons) Electronic Music Production at dBs Institute. Studio recording, sound design, mixing & mastering, foley, music for film and games, live performance — a full immersion in every dimension of sound.

2020–23
2023–25

Switzerland · Southeast Asia · New Zealand

Life as the studio.

Built a business. Travelled seven months through Southeast Asia. Moved to New Zealand. Every landscape, every culture absorbed — waiting to surface in the music.

Kerikeri, New Zealand

The return. PANØU begins.

Working at the Turner Centre. Writing again. A new name, a new chapter — with all the clarity that only comes from having lived something fully before putting it into sound.

Now
01
Artist & Producer

Original electronic music across House, Techno, Drum & Bass and cinematic score. The unreleased project Last Train Home signals where the sound is heading — atmospheric, emotional, built to last.

HouseTechnoDrum & BassCinematicAbleton
02
Music for Film & Sync

Composition and production for moving image. Trained in scoring technique, sound-to-picture synchronisation, and the emotional architecture of a scene. Available for sync licensing and collaborative film projects.

ScoringSync LicensingCompositionPicture lock
03
Sound Design & Foley

From field recording and foley performance to layered sound effects editing for film and games. A deep interest in the texture and physicality of captured sound — the way a broken glass becomes a world.

FoleySFXField RecordingGame AudioFilm

The floor is another instrument.

Live performance ranges from intimate electronic sets on Ableton Push to full DJ sets spanning Deep House, Tech House and Melodic Drum & Bass. The approach is always the same: read the room, trust the moment, let the music breathe.

Saubrazil Festival — 2nd edition, summer 2023. Festival stage DJ set.

DJ Residency — Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia. Weekly club residency.

Live Electronic — Ableton Push, hybrid live/DJ formats, collaborative performances.

Turner Centre, Kerikeri — Sound & lights assistant for live shows, 2025–present.

Selected work — documented, built, performed.

01
Bristol, UK2021

Hardware Production — Advanced Techniques

A documented deep dive into hardware-centred composition: modular rack patching, CV/gate architecture, no-input mixer feedback loops, and fully analogue signal chains. Two original compositions produced without a DAW at the centre — the hardware was the instrument, the instrument was the song.

ModularEurorack — Eloquencer, Mutable Instruments Plaits, Make Noise René
HardwareSequential OB-6, Roland TR-8, Analogue Heat, Moog MF-104M, Eventide Space, Sherman Filterbank
FormatTwo compositions — full process documentation on blog
EurorackCV/GateModularAnalogueNo-Input MixingHardware
Documentation
02
Bristol, UK2022

Live Performance — Tribal Techno

An original composition conceived and transposed into a 15-minute recorded live performance. The piece draws on Viking-era influences — including a recorded Lur sample — woven into a hybrid electronic-acoustic rig. Every signal path was hand-mapped. Every loop was live.

InstrumentsSaxophone (EV RE20), Prophet'08 keyboard, Ableton Push 2, Alesis SamplePad Pro
RoutingBoss RC-300 Loop Station, Novation Launch Control XL, Shure SM7b vocals
SourceGenerative ambient loops from original foley recordings; Lur sample — Viking era
RecordeddBs Institute, Bristol — Neve Duality Delta console
Live PerformanceHybrid SetupSaxophoneProphet'08Loop StationFoleyNeve
03
Bristol, UK2020–2023
Studio Credentials

Mixing & Mastering

Three years of hands-on studio work across analogue and digital workflows — from tracking sessions on large-format consoles to spatial audio delivery for film.

Neve GenesysSSLNeve Duality DeltaLexicon ReverbPultec EQ7.2 Dolby Atmos8.1 Spatial AudioAbletonPro Tools

Sydney, Australia — 2019

Ableton Liveschool

Produce Music — Intensive

One of the world's leading electronic music production programs, developed by Ableton Certified Trainers. Sound design, synthesis, arrangement, mixing and mastering — all within a community of working artists.

Artists encounteredNina Jirachi · Royalston · Flume

Bristol, UK — 2020–2023

dBs Institute of Sound & Digital Technologies

BA (Hons) Electronic Music Production

Three-year undergraduate degree covering the full spectrum of audio: studio recording, mixing & mastering, sound design, foley, music for film & games, live performance, research and collaboration.

Guest lecturers includedHospital Records · Sylvia Massy · Gordon Raphael · DJ Krust

Tools of the trade.

Software · VST Instruments & Plugins · Hardware — in progress

Software
Ableton LiveProficient
RekordboxGreat
TraktorSome skills
SeratoSome skills
FL StudioAmateur
Logic ProAmateur
Pro ToolsAmateur
VSTs & Plugins
Ableton SuiteProficient
FabFilter SuiteProficient
VitalGreat
SerumGreat
Soundtoys SuiteGreat
ValhallaGreat
Soothe · OTTGreat
iZotope SuiteGreat
SSL (Plugin Alliance)Solid
OmnisphereSolid
MelodyneSolid
AutotuneSolid
Abbey Road · Analogue LabSolid
KompleteSolid
Reaktor · Orb · FM8 · CubeAmateur
Hardware

Synthesizers · Modular Racks
Studio Consoles · Monitors
Microphones · Controllers
Instruments & more

— Full list coming soon —

Let's make
something.

Open to conversations about original releases, sync licensing, film and game audio, foley work, live bookings, and collaboration.

Artist

PANØU

Based in

Kerikeri, New Zealand

Available for

Worldwide projects