About

Maor Appelbaum is both a veteran producer / sound engineer and multi-instrumentalist musician whose body of work bellies his age by far.

Maor also does recording, mixing and mastering, also serving as a studio manager and broadcasting engineer.

Relying on his considerable knowledge of the electronic and acoustic sound spectrum he uses and abuses sound and music in boundary crossing ways.

As a Live sound engineer and technical director he has worked with
many international artists, including
Alphaville (Germany), Marc Almond (England),
Ozric Tentacles (England), Regina Spector ( U.S.A),
The Legendary Pink Dots (England - Netherlands),
Sophya (Israel - Netherlands), Edguy (Germany),
Apoptigma-Berzerk (Norway), Death In June (England),
Betzefer (Israel), Useless ID (Israel),
Aborted (Belgium), Samael (Switzerland),
Ancient Rites (Belgium), Darkane (Sweden),
Rotting Christ (Greece), Hocico (Mexico),
Melechesh (Netherlands/Israel), Pungent Stench (Austria),
Nightmare (France), Oren Ambarchi (Australia),
Stephen O'malley ( U.S.A), Attila Csihar (Hungery),
Twilight Singers (U.S.A)
as well as other well known and less known artists.

A known music writer in such well-known zines such Metal Hammer Israel and the web based Alternative-Zine.com, also acting as a D.J in
many well established clubs and radios.

His work as a sound and lighting engineer also contributed to his development as an experimental and adventurous musical innovator, being involved in such multi textured and genre-hopping projects as the atmospheric Sleepless, the highly aggressive and varied Vultures, the dark wave EBM band I.W.R,
As well as being the sole creator of such avant-garde solo projects as, Vectorscope, Lunisolar and Screening.

His musical ventures expand to such more metallic bands such as the doom infested band of Moonskin in which, besides playing bass, he also composes most of the music, and also produces.

Maor has also taught sound engineering in schools, also serving as an advisor and consultant for the Tel Aviv University, and other well-known establishments.

His multitude of work capacity makes him an extremely complex and multi talented artist, whose full body of work is quite hard to grasp.

Mostly motivated by a sheer need to create, his musical horizons are constantly expanded into a multi facet of musical styles and influences, while attempting, and succeeding, in creating something which is completely new and innovative.