Noel Fanaeian, working as hundredmillionthousand, is an Edmonton-based composer and electronic artist. He builds work from intimate human material—confessions, private recordings, the singing voice—dissolving it into harmonic mass and reassembling it as texture.
His debut lp1 (2017) threaded Persian and Filipino folk fragments through experimental hip-hop, examining a fractured collective identity rooted in his own heritage. For the vinyl, he asked every buyer what made them anxious, hand-wrote each confession onto a cognitive behavioural therapy worksheet, and sealed it inside the jacket.
Attention Span (2022) was colder and more clinical—built from consensual recordings of intimate moments between couples who met on dating platforms, granulated beyond recognition and set against voice and cello across neoclassical and post-techno terrain.