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Stephen Emmer: Composing At The Edge Of Silence

by Lawrence Peryer
June 17, 2026

Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on Dutch composer and musician Stephen Emmer. Stephen Emmer came up in the late '70s post-punk underground in Amsterdam. His band Minny Pops was the first international act signed to Factory Records. Since then he's been a curious genre-explorer, working with Lou Reed, Chaka Khan, Tony Visconti, Trevor Horn, Flood, and many others. His latest album, Asymmetrical Dot (Electric Fairytale Recordings, 2025), is a chamber work rooted in his Dutch-Indonesian heritage, ...