raison d’être

Peter Andersson (born March 20, 1973, in Boxholm, Sweden) is a music composer within the ambient, noise, industrial, electronic and experimental genre. His interest in electronic music started when he listened to his brother's Kraftwerk albums. He records many of the sounds he uses himself, from industries, boats, fans and similar objects.

His projects are Raison D'être, Stratvm Terror, Necrophorus, Atomine Elektrine, Yantra Atmospheres, Panzar, Svasti-ayanam, Grismannen. Besides his music activities he is mostly interested in film, art, Tibetan Buddhism and meditation. Together with another musician from Boxholm, also called Peter Andersson, he runs the band Blocksholm and together with Johanna Rosenqvist the band Cataclyst.