Six Missing (musician)

Six Missing
Background information
Born
TJ Dumser
GenresAmbient Music
Occupations
  • Ambient music producer
  • composer
Instruments
  • Guitar synthesizer
  • keyboards
Years active2017–present
Labels
Websitesixmissing.com

Six Missing is the ambient music project of Austin-based composer and sound designer TJ Dumser. Created in 2017, Six Missing is known for creating meditative soundscapes.

The name is a tribute to the six missing American Revolutionary War's soldiers who were not accounted for during the American Revolutionary War’s Battle of Brandywine.[1] Dumser had been working at a recording near the site, and experienced a supernatural phenomenon.[2]

Artist history

Dumser played the lead in his high school musical twice in four years and hasn’t shut up about it since (he was pretty good though). Dumser came into ambient music as a commuter, when he was traveling to work from Westchester County into Manhattan. He told Clotmag that the music became “the underscore for the world and landscape whipping by my window of the Metro-North Hudson Line. I loved how the soundtracks and sonic journey would sculpt my experience. It added drama to an otherwise mundane experience.”[3]

In 2017, Dumser began uploading loops of ambient music.[4] At the time, Dumser was working full-time as a senior sound designer in New York City. Upon quitting his day job, he began to devote himself full-time to creating music while paying the bills as a freelance sound designer. He told PLAYY.magazine that his approach to music is personal. “I decided to take my anxiety and depression, that I deal with, and transmute them into light and art, helping myself feel better and hopefully helping others feel better in the process."[5]

In 2021, Six Missing released the EP Patricia on Inner Ocean Records. He wrote on the liner notes that this was a tribute to Dumser's maternal grandmother who died the previous year.[6] That same year, Six Missing collaborated with IDRA on the Wildflowers EP. Dumser recorded those tracks as well as the tracks on Patricia at Cabin in the Woods Music in Austin, Texas.[7]

On New Year's Day of 2022, Six Missing released a four-track EP called Intention. Later the same year, Six Missing released the follow-up EP, Intention II, via Sea Level Sounds imprint.[8] Clash Music called it an “expression of ambience.”[9]

Six Missing signed with Nettwerk Music Group and made his debut with the label, releasing in 2023, Here For Now.[10][11][12][13] On Here For Now, Six Missing used a Korg PS-3100, a polyphonic analog synthesizer, and a Minimoog Model D.[14]

On the November 2024 episode of Jamie Lidell’s Hanging Out with Audiophiles, Dumser discussed his approach to creating music as well as his collab with Clariloops and Jamie Lidell for the single "Sitting Beachside (feat. Clariloops & Jamie Lidell) Remix" on Six Missing's counter:point EP.[15][16] Dumser also did a remix of  “Sitting Beachside” with St. Lucia. He said so much of it was the “journey of experimentation.” Six Missing followed up the Clariloops collaboration with the EP Gentle Breath, [17] which was a reaction in part to a mental health crisis, as Dumser told Igloo, he'd "run himself into the ground."[18]

Six Missing collaborated with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith on the remix of “A Nod Farewell” in 2024, and The Album Leaf the following year on the single, “Carousel.” Six Missing also collaborated with SUSS that year. On the podcast Ambient Country, Episode 44, called “Friends We Made Along The Road (SXSW) edition,” Dumser discussed how he enjoyed working with synths and “machines that you have no choice but to be patient with them,” and to “watch where this circus is going to go.”[19]

In August 2025, Six Missing released the full-length Without Mind on the label Nettwerk. Built on Eurorack modular systems, a Moog Matriarch, and a Minimoog, Without Mind was conceived as a score for ketamine-assisted therapy sessions.[20] For Mental Health Awareness Month, Six Missing's single “Effortless” was featured on Amazon Music Original x World Mental Health Day 2025.[21] Dumser traveled back to New York City with his family to see it up on the Times Square billboard, telling the Yorktown News how that moment was a “New Yorker's dream come true.”[22]

In January 2026, Six Missing worked with Swedish composer Patrik Berg Almkvisth on Developments, a seven-part collection of ambient movements.[23] They utilized Moog synths, guitars, bass, piano, and vintage tape textures and mixed in Dolby Atmos. Six Missing released 2026's drift,sway LP, using "MTL.ASMLY Count to Five, Meris Mercury 7, EarthQuaker Devices Avalanche Run, Analogman King of Tone, and Boomerang Looper."[24]

Gear  

Six Missing mixes in Dolby Atmos.[25] Dumser's studio has a variety of equipment, such as a Moog Matriarch, a Moog Memorymoog, a vintage ’74 Minimoog Model D, Eurorack modular setup with modules from Make Noise Music, Mutable Instruments, Strymon, and 4ms Company.[26][27] Dumser is a guitarist, synthesist, and sound designer and has effect pedals ranging from Hologram Electronics, Earthquaker Devices, Chase Bliss Audio and Meris Mercury 7. Dumser's guitar collection includes a Fender Jazzmaster, a vintage ’64 Gretsch Clipper, and a ’65 Magnatone amp. In addition, he has a 1980s Omnichord, 2 Tascams (a 414 and 424), a Nagra IV-S, Soma Synths Lyra-8, and an Otari MX5050B-ii and Korg PS3100.[28][29]

Discography

YEAR TITLE LABEL FORMAT REF
2017 Astoria Nettwerk Music Group LP [30]
"Lighthouse on Mars" Nettwerk Music Group Single [31]
Repeat Nettwerk Music Group LP [32]
2018 Chakobsa Sea Level Sounds EP [33]
2019 Better Now Nettwerk Music Group EP
Bachelorette Nettwerk Music Group EP
Without a Net Nettwerk Music Group EP
Live at Rockwood 3 Nettwerk Music Group Live Album
2020 Vibration Nettwerk Music Group EP
Horsehead Nebula Nettwerk Music Group LP
2021 Patricia Inner Ocean Records EP [34]
Displaced Sound Meditation EP
Flutter Sea Level Sounds EP
Wildflowers Mystery Circles EP
Summer Folds Nettwerk Music Group LP
2022 Intention Nettwerk Music Group EP
"When The Trees Sleep" Sea Level Sounds Single
Unfolding Nettwerk Music Group EP
Moods, Which Nettwerk Music Group EP
In Other Lifetimes... Nettwerk Music Group EP
set+setting Slow Echo EP
Intention II Sea Level Sounds EP [35]
2023 Here for Now Nettwerk Music Group EP
2024 counter:point Nettwerk Music Group EP
Gentle Breath Nettwerk Music Group EP [36]
2025 Without Mind Nettwerk Music Group LP [37]
"Effortless" Nettwerk Music Group/Amazon Music Single
Glowing From Within Nettwerk Music Group EP
2026 Developments Nettwerk Music Group EP [38]
drift, sway Nettwork Music Group LP
Passed Self Nettwork Music Group EP [39]

References

  1. ↑ "Six Missing - Storm". Headphone Commute. 2024-10-10. Retrieved 2026-05-04.
  2. ↑ Reporter, MIRANDA FERRANTEStaff (2025-12-16). "Yorktown native TJ Dumser finds stillness in a fast-moving world". Yorktown News. Retrieved 2026-05-04.
  3. ↑ Magazine, CLOT (2024-02-08). "CLOT Magazine presents Six Missing - Spacious Mind". Retrieved 2026-05-04.
  4. ↑ "Rising Stars: Meet TJ Dumser of Cherrywood". voyageaustin.com. 2025-04-15. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  5. ↑ read, MagazineReviews·9 min (2024-10-11). "Q+A: 5 minutes with Six Missing". PLAYY. Magazine. Retrieved 2026-05-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ↑ "Patricia, by Six Missing". Six Missing. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  7. ↑ "Wildflowers by IDRA & Six Missing — Mystery Circles". mysterycircles.com. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  8. ↑ Staff, Notion (2022-12-09). "'Intention II' by Six Missing". Notion. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  9. ↑ Interviews, Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews &; Murray, Robin (2022-10-14). "Six Missing's 'Loving Kindness' Is An Expression Of Ambience | News". Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews. Retrieved 2026-05-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ "Here for Now, by Six Missing". Six Missing. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  11. ↑ "Six Missing - Guidance". Headphone Commute. 2023-12-12. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  12. ↑ Audio, Inverted; Chaboteaux, Mathias (2023-11-16). "Premiere: Six Missing - Moving". Inverted Audio. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  13. ↑ "Six Missing - Here for Now". Echoes And Dust. 2023-12-13. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  14. ↑ Magazine, CLOT (2024-02-08). "CLOT Magazine presents Six Missing - Spacious Mind". Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  15. ↑ "EP 131 : SIX MISSING". Jamie Lidell. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  16. ↑ "hanging out with audiophiles: HOWA EP 131 - SIX MISSING". hangingoutwithaudiophiles.libsyn.com. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  17. ↑ "Six Missing - Storm". Headphone Commute. 2024-10-10. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  18. ↑ Lockett, Alan (2025-02-12). "Six Missing :: Gentle Breath EP (Nettwerk)". Igloo Magazine. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  19. ↑ State, Flow (2026-05-06). "Ambient Country Ep. 44: Friends We Made Along the Road (SXSW Edition)". www.flowstate.fm. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  20. ↑ Vance, Will (2025-08-15). "Six Missing Explores Time of Day Mantras on Without Mind: Identify - Magnetic Magazine". magneticmag.com. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  21. ↑ "Effortless (Amazon Music Original) | Six Missing – Meditative Soundscapes & Music". Six Missing. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  22. ↑ Reporter, MIRANDA FERRANTEStaff (2025-12-16). "Yorktown native TJ Dumser finds stillness in a fast-moving world". Yorktown News. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  23. ↑ postrockcafe (2026-01-01). "ACL 2026 Winter Music Preview ~ Ambient". a closer listen. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  24. ↑ "drift, sway, by Six Missing". Six Missing. Retrieved 2026-05-20.
  25. ↑ "Developments, by Six Missing & Patrik Berg Almkvisth". Six Missing. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  26. ↑ read, MagazineReviews·9 min (2024-10-11). "Q+A: 5 minutes with Six Missing". PLAYY. Magazine. Retrieved 2026-05-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  27. ↑ Neve, Rupert (May 30, 2024). "Customer Spotlight: Six Missing". rupertneve.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  28. ↑ Danz (2025-04-10). "Six Missing Recommends". Synth History. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  29. ↑ Danz (2025-04-10). "Six Missing Recommends". Synth History. Retrieved 2026-05-20.
  30. ↑ "Astoria, by Six Missing". Six Missing. Retrieved 2026-05-20.
  31. ↑ Lighthouse on Mars by Six Missing on Apple Music, 2017-10-10, retrieved 2026-05-22
  32. ↑ Repeat by Six Missing on Apple Music, 2018-02-02, retrieved 2026-05-22
  33. ↑ Chakobsa by Six Missing & Fancy Colors on Apple Music, 2018-11-09, retrieved 2026-05-22
  34. ↑ Moller, Martin (January 13, 2021). "TJ Dumser – Six Missing". martinyammoller.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  35. ↑ "Producer Six Missing mesmerises with new EP Intentions II". Retrieved 2026-06-30.
  36. ↑ Tonearm, The (March 20, 2025). "TJ Dumser (Six Missing): Inner Space, Sobriety, and Soundscapes". acast.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  37. ↑ Without Mind by Six Missing on Apple Music, 2025-08-08, retrieved 2026-05-22
  38. ↑ "Developments, by Six Missing & Patrik Berg Almkvisth". Six Missing. Retrieved 2026-05-20.
  39. ↑ "Six Missing — Passed Self". indielaunchpad.com. Retrieved 2026-06-30.
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