Akufen is the musical pseudonym of Montreal, Canada based artist, Marc Leclair. Leclair makes electronic music that is often described as minimal house, minimal techno, glitch, click hop, or microhouse. Leclair's pseudonym comes from the french word for tinnitis (ringing of the ears), acouphène. A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ... Montreal or Montréal1 (pronounced in Canadian English, in standard French, and in Quebecois French) is the second largest city in Canada. ... Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ... The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject to understand later content. ... Minimal techno or mnml is a sub-genre of techno , characterized by subtle changes in rhythms and a stripped-down, dubby sound. ... Microhouse music takes minimal house to a new level, focusing on the essential dance-inducing elements of house music: the beat, the bass and the melody. ... Tinnitus is a phenomenon of the nervous system connected to the ear, characterized by perception of a ringing or beating sound (often perceived as sinusoidal) with no external source. ...

His 2002 compact disc release entitled My Way introduced his concept of "microsampling", which was essentially a way of using extremely small and short clips of samples he had randomly recorded off of F.M. radio broadcasts as a key musical element. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Interference colors. ... In general, a sample is a part of the total, such as one individual or a set of individuals from a population (of people or things), a small piece or amount of something larger, a number of function values of a function, or part of a song. ... Frequency modulation (FM) is a form of modulation which represents information as variations in the instantaneous frequency of a carrier wave. ...

Leclair has also gone under the pseudonyms Horror Inc., Nefuka, and Anna Kaufen. A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ...